Phileas Fogg era un ric gentleman britànic, metòdic i sedentari fins a lavorriment. Precisament per aquest motiu, de seguida va agradar molt a Passapertot, el nou criat acabat de contractar. Després
On a seemingly normal day at the exclusive Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of great wealth and exacting tastes, makes an extraordinary GBP20,000 wager; he will perform an impossible feat and circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Accompanied only by his new French valet, the steady Passepartout, he sets off on a thrilling journey. Adventure, chaos and romance ensue as the daring pair harness the new power of steam to escape their ever-increasing enemies and beat the clock. The exciting adventures of Fogg and Passepartout in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days will entertain modern readers as much as they did the Victorians, and are accompanied here by an afterword from John Grant. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure
Three adventurers set out to kill a sea monster, but all is not as it seems. Out in the vast expanse of the Pacific they find not a beast but a submarine - the Nautilus, an advanced craft captained by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. Captured and hauled aboard, they accompany him through coral reefs, shipwrecks, and ancient ruins. There they hunt sharks, and battle giant squid, not realising that the greatest danger is Nemo himself, who will stop at nothing in his quest for vengeance. Beautifully illustrated by the French painter Edouard Riou, who worked with Jules Verne on six of his novels, this Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea also includes an afterword by author David Stuart Davies. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
When the chance discovery of an ancient cryptogram reveals a path to the Underworld, the adventurous Professor Otto Lidenbrock sets off to Iceland, determined to reach the centre of the earth. But nothing can prepare him and his nephew Axel for what they will find beneath the ground; measureless caverns and vast subterranean seas reveal all of the earth's known history and more, while dinosaurs do battle, giant men herd mastodons, and danger and excitement wait around every corner. Richly illustrated by Edouard Riou, the French painter and illustrator who worked with Jules Verne on six of his novels, this Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Journey to the Centre of the Earth also includes an afterword by Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
La vuelta al mundo en 80 días. Phileas Fogg, un gentleman británico adinerado y pedante, escrupulosamente puntual y tan osado como flemático, decide un buen día abandonar su ordenadísima vida para lanzarse a una de las mayores aventuras imaginables. ¿El motivo? Cumplir con una apuesta con sus colegas del Reform Club sobre la posibilidad de dar la vuelta al mundo en ochenta dias. De la Tierra a la Luna. Durante la Guerra de Secesion norteamericana un grupo de expertos en balistica deciden enviar un proyectil a la luna. En el interior de dicho proyectil viajaran tres personas que deberan afrontar las numerosas dificultades que se les presentan en la complicada labor de alcanzar su objetivo: la luna.
"Je voudrais faire un livre qu'on n'attende pas de moi. Il faudrait pour premiere condition qu'il put etre mis entre toutes les mains, meme les mains des jeunes filles. Donc, pas de passion violente, rien qu'une idylle. Refaisons donc Paul et Virginie..." Emile Zola.
