Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne

A journey around the Earth.... in eighty days? Surely such a thing is not possible. Yet this is the bet taken up by Phileas Fogg in Around The World In Eighty Days. Jules Verne was a great admirer of the British Empire. The wealth, the splendour and the engineering, products of the greatest empire in the world fascinated him in his writing. This novel is primarily about a race. For Fogg and a bet that could double his fortune or leave him penniless ...
...so techniacl details are important to him in his works. These can be rather distracting and detract the reader from the point. Also Verne several times in his books inadvertantly reveals his plot intentions before time. Apart from this though, Eighty Days Around The World is a very enjoyable book. ...

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...he is able to journey around the world in 80 days. Phileas Fogg is a man well known for his punctuality. In fact little else is known about him, for he is obviously a gentleman, with money, but no-one knows where it comes from. He is presumed to have travelled but no-one knows for certain. And as for family, nothing is known. He is in short a mystery man. Passepartout, his newly-appointed French valet, was looking forward to a peaceful life serving ...
...So he follows Fogg around the world to try to nab him. Their journey is beset by many obstacles, but along the way they make some new friends. Through their various fortunes, time is made up or lost as the go along. It's a constant will they, won't they throughout the book, with you willing them to win all the way. The characters were well developed, and I particularly enjoyed Passepartout's character as he watched his new master's cool persona ...

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...other was the book Around the World in 80 Days which kick started my addiction to novels. As a kid, I was already into books, but most of my reading was limited to Tintin, Asterix and Amar Chitra Katha comics, and most of my book reading was limited to fairy tales and folk lore stuff. I had an excerpt from Around the World in 80 Days, in my class V English primer, and the premise of a man going around the world just excited me no end. And I wanted ...
...Around the World in 80 Days is the story of a reclusive British millionaire, Phileas Fogg whose only way of spending time is reading newspapers and playing whist at the Reform Club of which he is a member. At the introduction to the book, we come to know that he is very precise in nature and he had fired his servant because the temperature of the water he used for shaving was 2 degrees lower. His new servant Passerpatout a lively and passionate Frenchman ...

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...local that he can go around the world in 80 days and he leaves the next morning! The journey across the continents is well described and although the obstacles he meets on his way are seem obvious the solutions around them are not! I was gripped by the story and my poor children 13 months and 32 months have been forced to watch Postman Pat a bit more than they would have liked!! I did manage to get to the end in two days and I thought the ending ...
...almost disappointed when the story ended. I found the book very easy to read even though we have been suffering from sleepless nights with a teething baby! It is very well written and contains a surprising amount of detail for such a short book. I would think it would be easily read by anyone over 10 . Some of it would probably be more understood by adults (a bit like the simpsons!!!!) I loved the character of Phileas Fogg, the old fashioned English ...

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When I was eleven to twelve I read almost all of Jules Vernes books. This one was one of my favourites. The characters are quite strong and the plot pretty well woven. It stimulated my mind to experience other countries and the journey also triggered the adventure in me. When I write this review I can vividly remember Phileas Fogg and the other characters. The drawing of the characters were simple and the picture of the world did not have many nuances ...

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'Around the World in 80 Days', in case you didn't know, chronicles the journey of one Phileas Fogg, a London gentleman, in his attempt to circle the globe in (no kidding!) 80 days. Whilst today that wouldn't be too tricky, our 19th century hero has to make use of everything from trains to sleighs to make his almost impossible expedition. This book was written over 125 years ago, but apart from the methods of transport employed you wouldn't know ...

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