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Round the World Again in 80 Days

Round the World Again in 80 Days( )
Author: Cocteau, Jean
Translator: Gilbert, Stuart
Introduction by: Callow, Simon
ISBN:978-1-86064-592-1
Publication Date:Aug 2000
Publisher:I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Imprint:Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $14.95
Book Description:

Jean Cocteau retraces the most celebrated round-the-world voyage of all time: that of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg in 1873. Taking up an impulsive challenge from the editor ofParis-Soir, Cocteau sets off with his very own 'Passepartout' as companion on a picaresque voyage some sixty-three years after his fictional predecessor. He finds that the journey has lost none of its hazards and adventures as he races around the globe in tramp-ship, railway and ocean liner. Observing...
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Book Details
Pages:266
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / French
Travel / Essays & Travelogues
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.18 x 6.94 x 0.87 Inches
Book Weight:0.572 Pounds
Author Biography
Cocteau, Jean (Author)
Born in Maisons-Lafitte, France, on July 5, 1889, Jean Cocteau was a poet, actor, film director, and playwright. Cocteau's first volume of verse, La Lampe d'Aladian, established him as an important contemporary writer.

During recuperation from an opium addiction, Cocteau produced some of his best-known work, including his first motion picture, Blood of a Poet, the play Orpheus, and the novel Les Enfants Terribles. Cocteau later published Difficulty of Being, a loose collection of autobiographical observations. Jean Cocteau died on October 11, 1963, at the age of 74.

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