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The Will of an Eccentric (Verne, Jules / Bendis, Jared / Bendis, Jared (Hrsg.))
The Will of an Eccentric
Autor Verne, Jules / Bendis, Jared / Bendis, Jared (Hrsg.)
Verlag ATBOSH Media Ltd.
Sprache Englisch
Einband Kartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
Seiten 472 S.
Artikelnummer 19650260
ISBN 978-1-62613-064-7
CHF 34.50
Zusammenfassung

Publishers Note: We have found some errors in the original transaltion and this book is being pulled from sale and replaced by a new edition that is an entirely new translation. We suggest that you do NOT purchase this book. The year is 1897 and eccentric millionaire William J. Hypperbone has died! The terms of his will dictate 6 players be randomly chosen to compete for the $60 million inheritance. To win they have to play his favorite board game "The Noble Game of the Goose" but on a much grander scale - a race around the country in "The Noble Game of The United States of America"! Which of these brave adventurers will have the luck of the dice (and circumstance) to win "The Will of an Eccentric"? Jules Verne's epic adventure around the United States was never published in the United States during his lifetime and this modernized edition brings this obscure book to a new generation.

Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).