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One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.
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In 1863, Jules Verne (1828-1905) published Five Weeks in a Balloon, and struck a new vein in fiction - stories that combined popular science and exploration. He wrote 54 novels in the Extraordinary Voyages series. Michael Glencross, the translator, has written widely on French literature and culture. Brian Aldiss is a distinguished Science Fiction writer as well as a poet, essayist, dramatist, SF historian and critic. His lastest work is Super-State: A Novel of Future Europe (2002).
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I've been looking forward to reading this book for a while and at last got around to it. all i can say is my god what a story! from the very start of the novel the authors wonderful writing style has you immediately intrigued by the story and the curious Mr Phileas Fogg who is introduced as the most laconic and orderly man imaginable. his routine is meticulous with a strict timetable for each day which he keeps to on the dot, he never leaves London and lives the most quite and uneventful life imaginable spending each day at the Reform club where he reads the daily paper or plays a game of cards. Passepartout, his new servant, is looking for just such a calm life but he is to be disappointed for on the day he is employed he Master returns from the club telling him to pack at once for a trip around the world.
at the club that day Fogg had bet half his fortune that he could travel around the world in an easterly direction in 80 days. in a race to save face and fortune what follows next is an amazing adventure that will have you gripped all the way through. a classic that should be read by all ages, by the end of it all that may be said is 'those Frenches sure know how to tell a story!'
at the club that day Fogg had bet half his fortune that he could travel around the world in an easterly direction in 80 days. in a race to save face and fortune what follows next is an amazing adventure that will have you gripped all the way through. a classic that should be read by all ages, by the end of it all that may be said is 'those Frenches sure know how to tell a story!'
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I was recently given this book as a present and enjoyed reading it very much. This is the first time I've read the actual book, though I have seen various films about the story, especially the one with David Niven in the title role. I didn't rush through this book, I just read a little at a time, leisurely reading each page as the exciting story unfolded. Reading this book doesn't feel heavy going, it moves along very nicely with its beautiful writing. If you want something to read which will be easy and enjoyable, especially through your summer holidays, then this old classic will suit you very much.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Nowadays when one thinks of "Around The World In 80 Days", it is of David Niven and Cantinflas in the 1950's film of the same name. That film was great fun but perhaps a bit overlong and it dragged in places. Not so the book. The book is taught and exciting. The reader is caught up in the scale of the adventure and in the inherent dangers that a trip around the world in the 19th century would have involved. As one ctitic at the time put it, "Exhilarating stuff"!
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