Around the World in Eighty Days (环游地球80天) In a race against time, the unflappable Phileas Fogg can't affordto lose his cool ... One evening, while relaxing after dinner at his gentlemen's club,Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions that he can travel aroundthe entire globe in eighty days - and he is determined not tolose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, thecool-headed Englishman and his hot-blooded French manservantPassepartout immediately set off for Dover. Whether travelling bytrain, steamship, sailing boat, sledge or even elephant, they mustovercome storms, kidnappings, natural disasters, Sioux attacks andInspector Fix of Scotland Yard - who believes Fogg has robbed theBank of England - to win this extraordinary wager. Tarzan of the Apes (人猿泰山) Can a wild man resist the call of the jungle? Abandoned to his fate when his English parents die in the Africanjungle, a baby boy is rescued and reared by a loving ape fostermothe
Originally publishedfrom 1932 to 1943, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House booksare classics of children's literature, beloved by millions. Butreaders who last enjoyed them as children may be astonished at thequiet poetry of Wilder's prose and the force and poignancy of herportrait of the lives of American pioneers. Now The Library ofAmerica and editor Caroline Fraser present a definitive boxed setthat affirms Wilder's place in the American canon, reintroducingthese enduring works to readers young and old. Here, for the firsttime in two collectible hardcover volumes, are all eight LittleHouse novels—brilliant narratives of the early life of LauraIngalls and her family as they grow up with the country in thewoods, on the plains, and finally in the small towns of theadvancing American frontier—plus the posthumous novella TheFirst Four Years , which recounts the early years of theauthor's marriage to Almanzo Wilder. As a special feature, fourrare autobiographical pieces address the need for histo