AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS – THE 1874 PLAY (hardback)

ISBN 9781629335506 Volume 6 of the Palik Series, published in conjunction with the North American Jules Verne Society Jules Verne’s most famous novel was originally conceived as a play—and had its greatest nineteenth century success as a stage play that was adapted by Verne. The play ran for thousands of performances in many different countries, including the United States. Here is the original play script, translated directly from the French by the producers of the original Broadway presentation. The play has been unpublished since 1874. Verne collaborated with Adolphe d’Ennery to create a distinctive version of the story that features many different characters and episodes than are in his novel. Included in this volume is an Introduction about how the play was created and staged, followed by the the first-ever translation of Verne’s essay, “The Meridians and the Calendar,” explaining how the fictional Phileas Fogg accomplished his feat of going around the world in eighty days. By