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Title: Around the World in 80 Days
Author: Jules Verne
Year: 1972/2004
Publisher: Penguin
254 pages
Ultimately
a critique of a mechanistic, clockwork world view that anticipates the
assembly line and Taylor's time-motion studies. The ending switches its
terms with a romantic suturing worthy of Austen, though Fogg is still an
enigma and a profoundly non-psychological character. The Penguin
edition I read included end notes that were fairly useless--the reader
does not need a definition of "physiognomy," which is easy to look up,
but absolutely could use a discussion of the buying power of £20,000 in
Fogg's day, though the latter is not provided.
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