Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon

Overview:

  • Title: Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon
  • Author: Jules Verne
  • Year: 1994
  • ISBN-10: 1853260908
  • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
  • Pages: xviii+[6]+359
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Omnibus
  • Title Reference: Five Weeks in a Balloon
  • Notes:
    • First printing of this edition. Printer's key: 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1
    • Title page has the title(s), author, Introduction and Notes by [over] PROFESSOR ROGER CARDINAL [over] University of Kent at Canterbury, and "Wordsworth Classics"
    • On copyright page: This edition published 1994 by Wordsworth Editions Limited. © Wordsworth Editions Limited 1994
    • Printed in Great Britain
    • Back cover states "Cover design by Robert Mathias, Publishing Workshop","Cover illustration, a detail from Hot Air Balloon by Pal Szintei Merse (1845-1920) Magyar Nemzeti Galeria, Budapest"
    • A half-page "General Introduction" on unnumbered p.[v], signed General Adviser [over] Keith Carabine [over] Rutherford College [over] University of Kent at Canterbury.
    • "Introduction" starting on the same unnumbered p.[v] through xviii. "Contents" on unnumbered pp.[1]-[6] before page 1.
    • Novel Five Weeks in a Balloon ends on p.354. Unsigned Notes (by Roger Cardinal) on pp.[355]-359.
    • Around the World in Eighty Days is the P. Desages translation. Five Weeks in a Balloon is the Arthur Chambers translation.