{"product_id":"9781411428447","title":"Around the World in Eighty Days (Barnes \u0026 Noble Library of Essential Reading)","description":"\u003ci\u003eAround the World in Eighty Days\u003c\/i\u003e, published originally as a newspaper serial in 1872 and released as a book the following year was well received in both formats.  Its hero, Phileas Fogg, is a leisured but taciturn Londoner of such mathematically precise habits that he has fired his servant for bringing him shaving water two degrees too cold.  Over a game of cards, Fogg wagers twenty thousand pounds that he can travel around the world in eighty days or less.  What follows is a headlong adventure full of trains, ships, elephants, and wind sledges, not to mention human sacrifice, duels, and Indian attacks.  A successful combination of modern speed and period quaintness, \u003ci\u003eAround the World in Eighty Days\u003c\/i\u003e has become a delightful, timeless, steam-driven classic.","brand":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140722344176,"sku":"9781411428447","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781411428447_p0.jpg?v=1769895423","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781411428447","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}