Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)

I could have done with more information about how the extracts were chosen. Some of them were quite depressing when one thinks about how little has changed from when Bly was writing. But perhaps the extracts were chosen specifically because the issues are still relevant today without necessarily reflecting the variety of Bly's output.

It also wasn't clear whether the two longer pieces I was particularly interested in - Bly's account of her time undercover in a mental hospital and her account of her race round the world to beat Phileas Fogg - were complete or only lengthy extracts. Did the ellipses represent cuts by the editor or did they represent bly's own cuts?