I’ve always enjoyed this classic by Jules Verne and ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ will always receive 5 stars from me! I’ve read this book several times and it still has the power to keep me hooked even after all these years. And of course I enjoy each minute my children spend with Jules Verne. More routined globetrotters than I was, they ask different questions, and reflect more on the radically changed technology and knowledge since the time of Phileas Fogg, whereas I had difficulties understanding the cultural codes in the world - which my children recognise directly from long experience in international schools. I enjoyed this so much, my only regret is that this is not a full length novel. In true novella style there are parts where the narrator says something along the lines of, and once they arrived in Egypt and your like, Grr I want to know all the details of how they got to Egypt. I usually avoid novellas for this very reason as I'm a details kind of girl rather than a skimmer but I am glad I read this as its such an adult version of The Famous Five or The Secret Seven. 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).

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During his brief interview with Mr. Fogg, Passepartout had been carefully observing him. He appeared to be a man about forty years of age, with fine, handsome features, and a tall, well-shaped figure; his hair and whiskers were light, his forehead compact and unwrinkled, his face rather pale, his teeth magnificent. His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call “repose in action,” a quality of those who act rather than talk. Calm and phlegmatic, with a clear eye, Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas. Seen in the various phases of his daily life, he gave the idea of being perfectly well-balanced, as exactly regulated as a Leroy chronometer. Phileas Fogg was, indeed, exactitude personified, and this was betrayed even in the expression of his very hands and feet; for in men, as well as in animals, the limbs themselves are expressive of the passions. The companions arrive at Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland, take the train to Dublin and then a ferry to Liverpool, still in time to reach London before the deadline. Once on English soil, Fix arrests Fogg. A short time later, the misunderstanding is cleared up – the actual robber had been caught three days earlier in Edinburgh. Fogg has missed the train and arrives in London five minutes late, certain he has lost the wager. The real Phileas Fogg: the true story of the woman who travelled around the world in (less than) 80 days Similar to The Journey to the Centre of the Earth which I read yesterday - Verne creates amazingly awesome and complex characters. The main protagonist Mr. Fogg is an obsessive-compulsive routine loving timekeeper who bets his chums at the club that he can travel around the world in 80 days, which a newspaper said was possible - if no delays were incurred. He is so deep, that so much is beneath the surface of this quiet, content gentleman. Never fearing or worrying whatever dilemmas are thrown in his path and always willing to fail the mission to help his friends. He is also very good at handling a boat. I have to ask - does anyone know if he has been in any of Verne's previous stories as it seems like he has an amazing past. If he hasn't been present and that is just what is built up by the writing in this book I am speechless.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.

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The novel was adapted twice by Orson Welles for his Mercury Theatre broadcasts, 23 October 1938 (60 minutes) and 7 June 1946 (30 minutes). [26] Jules Verne suffered much pain in later life from a leg wound caused when a nephew went mad and shot him. He died of old age, the author of such classics as A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. There was only one word I skipped. I could explain all of that, but I didn't want to explain why Japanese people were described as having 'slanted eyes'. Have been reading this in French, and I have to say, Verne's book gained in translation, instead of having lost, if you get my drift. Another early reference comes from the Italian traveler Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri. He wrote a book in 1699 that was translated into French: Voyage around the World or Voyage du Tour du Monde (1719, Paris). [16]Fly Better For Less". Flightfox.com. 30 September 2012. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013 . Retrieved 23 November 2015.

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Lo mejor para mi han sido las curiosidades que nos iba relatando Verne de las diferentes partes del mundo que pisaba Fogg (poco más hacía que pisarlas, desgraciadamente, tremenda momia xD), de hecho me hubiera gustado leer más sobre estos países y menos sobre la locura de cálculos matemáticos para llegar a tiempo a todo. But undoubtedly her most famous assignment was more light-hearted and entertaining – Nellie took on the challenge to beat Phileas Fogg by travelling around the world faster than Verne could imagine.

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He was so exact that he was never in a hurry, was always ready, and was economical alike of his steps and his motions. He never took one step too many, and always went to his destination by the shortest cut; he made no superfluous gestures, and was never seen to be moved or agitated. He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen". J-verne.de. Archived from the original on 11 September 2019 . Retrieved 23 November 2015. Laura Eason's celebrated adaptation of Jules Verne's classic novel was seen at the New Vic Theatre, Stoke, and Manchester's Royal Exchange before receiving its London premiere at the St. James Theatre in 2015. The book of Around the World in Eighty Days published in 1873 sold nearly half a million copies during Verne’s lifetime. With translations in English, Russian, Italian and Spanish, the plot and lively narrative won Verne worldwide renown, and is still as intriguing today as it was 150 years ago.