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London in Fiction: Around the World in Eighty Days, the Threepenny Opera, the Day of the Triffids, Drones Club, Neverwhere, Neasden F.c
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-15.
ISBN 9781157481775
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Chapters: Around the World in Eighty Days, the Threepenny Opera, the Day of the Triffids, Drones Club, Neverwhere, Neasden F.c., Junior Ganymede Club, the Beggar's Opera, Trapped in the Sky, the Mysterons, East End of London in Popular Culture, Paddington Bear, London Underground in Popular Culture, on the Buses, Winged Assassin, Big Ben Strikes Again, List of Films Set in London, the Rag Trade, the Adventures of Roderick Random, Londinium, Conceit, List of Television Shows Set in London, Operation Time, London Calling, List of Video Games Set in London, the Deptford Mice, Coal Hill School, King Rat, Threepenny Novel, Prince Bob, List of Music Videos Set in London. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 153. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Around the World in Eighty Days (French: ) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20, 000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club. The story starts in London on October 2, 1872. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy English gentleman who lives unmarried in solitude at Number 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens. Despite his wealth, which is £40, 000, Mr. Fogg, whose countenance is described as "repose in action", lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. As is noted in the first chapter, very little can be said about Mr. Fogg's social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed his former valet, James Foster, for bringing him shaving water at 84° Fahrenheit instead of 86°, Mr. Fogg hires the Frenchman Passepartout, who is about 30 years old, as a replacement. Later, on that day, in the Reform Club, Fogg gets involved in an...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=42609
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