环游地球80天(凡尔纳经典作品)插图本

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《外国文学经典·环游地球80天(插图本)》：他既是科学家中的文学家，又是文学家中的科学家。凡尔纳，正是一位把科学与文学巧妙地结合起来的大师。

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At noon the Parsee gave the signal for departure. The country soon be-gan to look very wild. The great forests gave place to copses of tamarindsand dwarf palms, after which came wide-spreading, arid plains, bristlingwith wretched shrubs and dotted with great boulders of syenite. The wholeof this part of upper Bundelkhand, but little visited by travellers, is inhabit-ed by a fanatical people hardened in the most terrible practices of theHindu religion. The English have been unable to establish their rule effi-ciently over this region, subject as it is to the influence of the rajahs, whomit would have been no easy matter to teach in their inaccessible fastnessesin the Vindhia Mountains.More than once troops of fierce-looking Indians were descried makingwrathful gestures as they watched the great quadruped speeding by. Butthe Parsee avoided them as much as possible, for he thought it unsafe tomeet them. They saw few animals in the course of that day; here and therea monkey or two, that scampered away making endless contortions andgrimaces, to Passepartout's great delight.

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作者：（法国）凡尔纳凡尔纳(1828～1905)是法国小说家。从小向往航海，曾离家当见习水手。十九岁在巴黎学习法律，毕业后不愿当法官，为剧院创作剧本，后以创作科幻小说为主。自《气球上的五星期》获得成功之后，每年都要发表一两部新作，作品共达六十六部之多，总称为《在已知和未知的世界中奇异地漫游》。其中著名的三部曲《格兰特船长的儿女》、《海底两万里》和《神秘岛》是其代表作，《八十天环游地球》是凡尔纳*受欢迎的作品之一。其他重要作晶还有《地心游记》、《从地球到月球》、《环游月球》、《十五岁的船长》、《蓓根的五亿法郎》、《机器岛》等。他在科学知识的基础上大胆地设想和预言未来，所作的许多科学幻想，在今天都得以实现。他也因此被称为“世界科幻小说之父”。