Around the World in Eighty Days. Phonetic Color Illustration Book

Author: (French) Jules Verne
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This story takes place in an era before airplanes were invented. The protagonist, Mr. Fogg, makes a bet with his friend: to travel around the world in eighty days! Unbeknownst to him, the British Royal Police Inspector Fix mistakenly believes he is a fleeing thief carrying stolen money and starts tailing him, determined to arrest him. This makes the global journey even more challenging. Mr. Fogg and his servant, relying on their wit, diplomacy, and courage, rescue a woman from the altar, escape the charges of the Indian monks' court, catch up to the missed American steamship, and defeat the savage Siamese people. However, at the critical moment, they fail to change the twist of fate—they are locked up by Fix! Time is slipping away by the minute. Around the World in Eighty Days was once a seemingly impossible myth, but the author made it a reality in the book. Jules Verne was a 19th-century French writer, hailed as the "father of science fiction." From a young age, he loved the ocean and dreamed of distant voyages and adventures, but his father strictly forbade him. Lying in bed, tears streaming down his face, he vowed, "From now on, I will only lie in bed and travel in my imagination." This childhood experience drove Verne to spend his life immersed in fantasy, creating numerous famous science fiction works. Many scientific predictions in his works have now become reality. As someone once said, modern science is merely the process of bringing Verne's predictions to life. The newly released Phonetic Color Illustrated Classics of World Literature is a series of books meticulously compiled and illustrated, specially dedicated to young readers. Its combination of text and images, along with standard phonetic annotations that meet primary school teaching standards, fully meets the reading needs of elementary school students.