Around the World in 80 Days

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An amazing read. You will go on reading until you find out if they really accomplished their mission or not! Travel Around the World in 80 days". Around the World Tours. Archived from the original on 14 April 2021 . Retrieved 8 January 2022. Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days set the Victorian world alight in 1872; an adventure novel with grand dreams of circumnavigating the known world in less than three months. The novel's publication came at a time when technological innovations were opening up new possibilities for rapid travel and global tourism, with many 'around-the-world' cruises advertised for the first time – it was easy to see where Verne found his inspiration for Phileas Fogg's famous journey.

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Careri, Giovanni Francesco Gemelli; Noble, Eustache Le (1719). Voyage du Tour du Monde (1719, Paris). Archived from the original on 22 April 2017 . Retrieved 21 October 2016. Verne’s characters employ steamships, trains, and sail-powered sleds to get from location to location. But no balloons. None. I can still remember the vivid images of my imagination that I had as a child listening to this story and feelings will never fade, I still felt quite emotional rereading this story and joining Mr. Fogg on his journey. In 1963, a comedy film The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze starring The Three Stooges in the Passepartout role was released to exploit the popularity of the 1956 film and the Stooges resurgence in popularity that began in 1959.

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Just the task Phileas Fogg faces in traveling the world in 80 days (in the 19th century) and the obstacles that pop up to delay his travels would make for a fabulous story, but the element of a cat-and-mouse chase really puts this book over the top! I highly recommend it for anyone who loves grand adventure stories. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( September 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Had he travelled? It was likely, for no one seemed to know the world more familiarly; there was no spot so secluded that he did not appear to have an intimate acquaintance with it. He often corrected, with a few clear words, the thousand conjectures advanced by members of the club as to lost and unheard-of travellers, pointing out the true probabilities, and seeming as if gifted with a sort of second sight, so often did events justify his predictions. He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit. Around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne was a really good classic novel an the story was filled with adventure, adrenaline and suspense.

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Mark Brown adapted the book for a five-actor stage production in 2001. It has been performed in New York, Canada, England, South Africa, and Bangladesh. [24] The fabulously wealthy Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg wagers his life's fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Some people will tell you that there's only one female character in this book, and she's extremely flat. But that's not fair, either. a b c d e f g h William Butcher (translation and introduction). Around the World in Eighty Days, Oxford Worlds Classics, 1995, Introduction.Verne’s novel made 80 days the time to beat and inspired numerous attempts to travel around the globe in even less time. The most notable attempt was by American journalist Nellie Bly, who in 1889-90 managed it in just 72 days. And the affronted George Train reduced the time to 60 days in 1892. Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen". J-verne.de. Archived from the original on 11 September 2019 . Retrieved 23 November 2015. Following publication in 1873, various people attempted to follow Fogg's fictional circumnavigation, often within self-imposed constraints: Phileas is a rich man, but also very precise about his life. He wants everything done the way he likes and will get rid of anyone who does not do that. The wager starts when he is at a local club and begins an argument about whether a person could get all the way around the world in such a short period of time. He believes he can because a new railroad has been opened in India. Because he is so sure of his mathematical figures, he takes the wager and sets off with his new valet. And some people will tell you this book is slow-paced and weird. But they're forgetting something important.

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What would Jules Verne make of this interpretation of his story? After all, he based his novel on a true story, right? My cousin had already watched its movie adaptation. She gave me the spoiler and I was always waiting for it… BUT that never came!! And that’s a good thing. Seems like movie is different than this book. The book is evergreen, enchanting, and has that magic to it that can never go stale. My favourite scene will always be when Fogg, Passepartout, and the Parsee elephant rider saves Aouda from death in the jungles of India. Another scene which I have always highly appreciated is the ending when Aouda expresses her love for Fogg and the discovery of Passepartout as he goes out to engage a priest for their wedding. He has a carefully planned route for them to travel by steamer boat and railroad. Their itinerary includes crossing the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean and also across several continents. What he does not plan on is that a bank robber left England at the same time they did and a detective mistakes Phileas for the robber and follows them. Not much left for me to say really Around the World in Eighty Days is a hoot and I recommend it. I will certainly read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth and beyond. Jules Verne is my kind of guy!

Jules Verne is the master of classic adventure tales. Around the World in Eighty Days is just more proof that his excellent writing skills put the readers right in the book with Phileas Fogg and Passepartout. Because of a bet by his friends, Phileas sets out to get all the way around the world in eighty days. What I hadn't expected of Verne's novel is that it is such a blatant reminder of how far we've come in the last 135 years since colonialist superiority was treated as unquestioned fact: Herold, Charles (7 January 2006). "Circumnavigating This World, and a Visit to Another". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 26 September 2019 . Retrieved 26 September 2019.