Around the World in 80 Days

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Strong yikes. But the ending is kinda wholesome, and it is satisfying. And the writing is great - it's clear why this is a classic, and it's fairly easy to read considering most classics! 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: Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen". J-verne.de. Archived from the original on 11 September 2019 . Retrieved 23 November 2015. Well, this book was good. Really good. But I didn’t like it the way I should have…I just got little bored of these adventures. A rap at this moment sounded on the door of the cosy apartment where Phileas Fogg was seated, and James Forster, the dismissed servant, appeared.

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As for Passepartout, he was a true Parisian of Paris. Since he had abandoned his own country for England, taking service as a valet, he had in vain searched for a master after his own heart. Passepartout was by no means one of those pert dunces depicted by Molière, with a bold gaze and a nose held high in the air; he was an honest fellow, with a pleasant face, lips a trifle protruding, soft-mannered and serviceable, with a good round head, such as one likes to see on the shoulders of a friend. His eyes were blue, his complexion rubicund, his figure almost portly and well built, his body muscular, and his physical powers fully developed by the exercises of his younger days. His brown hair was somewhat tumbled; for while the ancient sculptors are said to have known eighteen methods of arranging Minerva’s tresses, Passepartout was familiar with but one of dressing his own: three strokes of a large-tooth comb completed his toilet. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity! 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.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. 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. She had successfully beaten Fogg by completing the journey in seventy-two days – a new world record. Sir Michael Palin partially attempted to recreate the journey for a documentary series: Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin. a b c d e f g h William Butcher (translation and introduction). Around the World in Eighty Days, Oxford Worlds Classics, 1995, Introduction.

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Flom, Eric (22 May 2002). "Sayre, James Willis (1877-1963)". History Link . Retrieved 3 March 2022. 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. You are four minutes too slow. No matter; it’s enough to men- tion the error. Now from this moment, twenty-nine minutes after eleven, a.m., this Wednesday, October 2d, you are in my service.” David Tennant starred as Phileas Fogg in a 2021 television adaptation, Around the World in 80 Days. [31] Afterwards I instinctively felt that those books should remain in my childhood, that I might find things in them I would find ludicrous or horrible now. But the initiation rite of reading Verne when I was an impressionable ten-year-old will always be a memory of great importance to me.Book 848 From 1001 Books) - Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingts Jours = Around The World in Eighty Days (Extraordinary Voyages #11), Jules Verne Toby Hulse created an adaptation for three actors, which was first produced at The Egg at The Theatre Royal, Bath in 2010. [25] It was revived at the Arcola Theatre in London in 2013 and The Theatre Chipping Norton in 2014.

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In the early 1860s, a magazine manager liked one of his adventure stories and gave him a contract to write similar stories for the next twenty years! The collected stories became known as Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. His stories were of fantastic adventures with a degree of realism in the descriptions of events and scientific content - he was a pioneer of science fiction. He did lots of research for his books but occasionally made up a scientific 'fact' if it suited the story. History has shown that he had an incredible sense of what was possible - his imagined inventions have often turned out to be close to later real inventions. The novel was converted into a play by Verne and Adolphe d'Ennery for production in Paris in 1874. The play was translated into English and brought to the United States by The Kiralfy Brothers. [22] Jules Verne (1828 - 1905) lived and died in France but developed an early passion for travel. When he was eleven years old he tried, unsuccessfully, to run away to sea. He returned home and promised his mother that in future he would imagine travelling - this proved to be a prophetic remark.Isn't that FASCINATING? To think, to take trains, boats, or an elephant, would STILL cost 16 million dollars today. a b "Around the World in Eighty Days". Archived from the original on 26 January 2021 . Retrieved 29 January 2021.