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    Around the World in 80 Days
    Around the World in 80 Days
    Around the World in 80 Days
    Audiobook22 minutes

    Around the World in 80 Days

    Written by Jules Verne

    Narrated by Robert Rance

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    Phileas Fogg was enjoying a night of cards and conversation when the discussion turned to bank robbers. To prove his theory that the robber could be halfway across the globe, he makes a wager that he can travel around the world in 80 days.

    Can he win his bet?

    Find out in this stunning graphic novel adaptation of Jules Verne's classic by Rod Espinosa. Creator biographies and a glossary help reluctant readers take the first step on the road to classic literature.

    An Abdo Publishing Group audio production.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbdo Publishing Group
    Release dateJan 1, 2008
    ISBN9781629689418
    Author

    Jules Verne

    Jules Gabriel Verne was born in the seaport of Nantes, France, in 1828 and was destined to follow his father into the legal profession. In Paris to train for the bar, he took more readily to literary life, befriending Alexander Dumas and Victor Hugo, and living by theatre managing and libretto-writing. His first science-based novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon, was issued by the influential publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel in 1862, and made him famous. Verne and Hetzel collaborated to write dozens more such adventures, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1869 and Around the World in 80 Days in 1872. In later life Verne entered local politics at Amiens, where had had a home. He also kept a house in Paris, in the street now named Boulevard Jules Verne, and a beloved yacht, the Saint Michel, named after his son. He died in 1905.

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    • 4/5
      I don't know why it took me so long to decide to read this. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The characters were great and the story fast-paced. Phileas Fogg - so incredibly "English". Passpartout - comical and loyal. Fix - so terribly, pitifully wrong. Aouda - Exotic and charming. And, a surprise ending.
    • 4/5
      This travel novel has great adventure stories about the different cities visited. The characters are well-developed and lovable.The different places of the world were written about in a way that must have been experienced by the author. It was amusing to read how the author portrayed America and its people. The ending was quite surprising and a great conclusion to the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys traveling.
    • 4/5
      I'm not a typical Classics fan but I try to read a few each year. I actually enjoyed this one but was a bit confused because all the covers and film adaptations have Phineas Fogg in a hot air balloon but I never got that during y reading of this story. I enjoyed seeing all the different geographical locations and how Fogg manage to somehow come right even at the end..
    • 4/5
      The imperturbable Mr Fogg traverses the world in 80 days all while upholding the grandest tradition of English stiff-upper-lipedness. Not really sure why this is on the 1001 list.
    • 5/5
      Not the best adaption in the world - large chunks of the journey are left out, but perfect for reading aloud in the car for kids.
    • 4/5
      Good book, fun (if long...) movie. Will he make it? It's how it is actually done that makes it a hoot.
    • 3/5

      6/10.

      A rich eccentric travels around the world in 80 days against all odds. Quite good and a classic.

    • 5/5
      I read this book for the first as a read-aloud to my son when he was about 12. We were rivetted, on the edge of our seats. Excitement and humour, a must read.
    • 5/5
      I read this book awhile ago so this review is not going to go into to much detail about what I liked and what I didn't like. However there is nothing about this book that I remember disliking.

      I loved it. I stayed up all night reading it- it helped that I have never seen any of the movies or met anyone else that has read this book (OK I don't actually know if that is true I guess some of my teachers had probably read this book but I haven't spoken about this book with anyone else who read it.) and, because of that, I had no idea what was going to happen in the end or even during the book. I thought it was all very entertaining- it was one of the first classics I read without being told to.

      When I finished it I said to myself, "Wow that was a good book." I love reading but that doesn't happen often for me (I can only think of two other books that have had that effect on me).

      I recommend this book to everyone but especially people who like adventure stories or classics.
    • 4/5
      This was a very suspenseful, exciting book! This was the first Verne book I've ever read, and he is very good at keeping readers gnawing on their nails at the edge of their seats. The story has humor sprinkled throughout it that had me laughing out loud. I loved it; I know I say this about nearly everything I read, but this truly was a wonderful book!
    • 4/5
      I read the Project Gutenberg version of this, in the end: I don't know who translated it, but the translation was really quite nice. I enjoyed this book more than I expected to. For all that he bribes his way around the world, really, Phileas Fogg has some interesting adventures, including saving a lovely young woman and commandeering a ship. I thought the characters were all quite fun. There are stereotypes and so on, and it's very very biased toward all things English, seemingly, but knowing about that in advance, I could ignore it.

      I loved the end a lot more than I expected to. I thought it was clever, and I enjoyed seeing a softer side of Phileas Fogg (one that I had, of course, been suspecting for a while).
    • 3/5
      Good adventure story, but I was a bit surprised by the Mormon preacher in Utah--he was a crazy fanatic! This is a classic for anyone.
    • 5/5
      I haven't read this in years, but still know the story fairly well (I certainly know how it ends) and yet my heart was still racing at the very end.
    • 5/5
      Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne was a very quick but enjoyable read. One has to keep in mind, though, that it was written in the 1870's and had some pro-colonialism to the novel. Two things struck me while reading the story; first, was the Verne made his main character, Phileas Fogg, an Englishman and Jean Passepartout, Fogg's valet, a Frenchman who Verne was as well; secondly, there was a whole chapter dedicated to inform the reader on some Latter -day Saint (or Mormon) history that wasn't negative towards the religion (keep in mind at the time this book was written Utah was not a state thus polygamy wasn't outlawed.

      The best parts, to me, were the descriptions of the geography and how ahead of time the novel was when it came to international travel. Nowadays, one can fly around the world in less than eighty days when, during the time, planes weren't even invented yet.
    • 3/5
      It's easy to see why it's a classic book; the framework of Around the World in 80 Days is great, a rousing adventure that shows various distinct places in the world in 1872, with an added police pursuit for complication. It's also easy to see why it is significantly modified in more modern filmed versions, as it is steeped in colonialism with an absolutely vapid main character and one major female character who is there to be rescued and adore the vapid main character. That said, after the first few chapters of info dump, it's a very fast read because of the pace of the action.
    • 4/5
      Lively translation, although Butcher's notes are less helpful than they could be.
    • 3/5
      Having never read this book, I downloaded a free audiobook to see just how far from the original text the Masterpiece Theater mini-series is from the original source material. The answer to that is A LOT – so much so that the TV series would seem to be a wholly different story. As to the book, Verne wrote what could be called a “ripping yarn” with Phileas Fogg as the savant who can solve all problems on the trip around the globe, Fixx is the bumbling detective who is pursuing Fogg convinced that he has robbed the Bank of England of 50,000 pounds, Passerpartout provides comic relief, and the beautiful Indian widow Aouda provides the love interest. The “surprise” at the end of the novel will be no surprise to anyone who has traveled to the far east, but then in 1872 I’m assuming people weren’t as familiar with the International Date Line as they are today. My big quibble with the novel, is why Fogg hadn’t figured this out.
    • 5/5
      Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days is an absolute joy. This gleeful romp, wherein Phileas Fogg places a bet with some associates at the Reform Club that he can indeed perform the titular feat in that prescribed timeframe. Verne is at his wittiest, with a wonderful cast of characters: Fogg, one of literature’s great eccentrics; his loyal and resourceful servant Passepartout; and the comically inept Detective Fix, in hot pursuit of Fogg who has become a suspect in a recent bank robbery. Along the way Verne provides panoramic travelogue summaries for each new locale, which colorfully set the scenes. The story flows like a giddy Wes Anderson screenplay - and, in my view, that’s a compliment to both Anderson and Verne.
    • 4/5
      I loved this book and can't believe I waited so long to read it, back in grammar school and high school I read most of Verne's SF but skipped this because it wasn't SF, big mistake. I'd recommend this fans of Verne, steampunk or adventure travel lovers.
    • 3/5
      I may have read an abridged version of this when I was very young, but I didn't remember the story at all, so reading this book was a fun experience. Phileas Fogg, accompanied by his servant Passepartout, sets out on a journey around the world aiming to win a bet. The two head east from London, using many different means of transportation and encountering assorted obstacles that threaten to slow them down.I'm definitely happy that I read it (I listened to it as an audiobook on a drive) and thought that it was cute, though I don't think that this will be an especially memorable book for me.
    • 3/5
      Why is there a hot air balloon on the cover? Why is that image so closely associated with this book?
      Spoiler: they never take a balloon. Huh.

      Very much a book of its time, I think, though hard for me to judge if the author was sincere in his stereotypes that are often racist (by today's standards) or if he's offering social commentary through sarcasm or tongue-in-cheek descriptions. Those nuances are lost in time, though I suppose I could read literary criticism to find out what the academics say. He does caricature the Americans in a comical way, though. That, and his portrayal of French, Indian, British, and a few other nationalities, it is a bit of a world whirlwind tour of the stereotypes in the major world stage players. Maybe that's the symbolism of the hot air balloon?
      This audiobook is very entertaining, with many sound effects and great accents and voices. Would captivate even a younger audience (8 maybe).
    • 4/5
      A fast-paced adventure dripped with cliches and humor - I listened to the audio read by Jim Dale and it was a lovely way to spend an afternoon.
    • 4/5
      There's something rather charming and fantastic about this work, and in the way that Verne manages to bring to life characters in even such a fast-paced and simply told tale as this one. Certainly, the language is as dated as the narrative and the modes of transportation involved in Fogg's journey, but in an odd way, that feels to make it all the more fantastic and believable. Strange as that might be.I don't think I would have had the patience for this tale when I was younger, so I'm glad to have finally gotten around to it now. Certainly, I'd recommend it.
    • 4/5
      This was a very suspenseful, exciting book! This was the first Verne book I've ever read, and he is very good at keeping readers gnawing on their nails at the edge of their seats. The story has humor sprinkled throughout it that had me laughing out loud. I loved it; I know I say this about nearly everything I read, but this truly was a wonderful book!
    • 5/5
      Delightful book. Passepartout is the real hero; saving lives all over the globe.
    • 3/5
      An old book that has dated well. It is a good tale, well told. of two Londoner's travel around the world to win a wager. While the errors in detail in some places helps us understand how hard fact checking was in a pre-Google world, there is enough got right to make the reading enjoyable. In particular, the twist in the plot based on the travellers maintaining London time for the whole journey leading to them miscounting the number of days away from London, is a little gem.
    • 3/5
      Interesting story from a historical perspective. Definitely not something that could be written today.
    • 4/5
      My most recent installment book was Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne which was originally published in 1873 and I think it has definitely aged well. The story is told in a simple straightforward style, and the various global adventures move the story along at a rapid pace. The plot is a little silly yet the book comes together nicely and before too long the reader finds himself involved in the story and rooting for the participants. The characters are distinct and well developed from the routine-obsessed, uptight yet cool main character who travels around the world based on a bet from some of the gentlemen at his club, to the sympathetic French manservant who is loyal, smart and a very good gymnast. Even the lesser developed characters of Aouda, the Indian lady, to Fix, the stalking policeman, are colourful and add to the story. Around the World in Eighty Days is light, fun and makes for great escape reading. A little dated, to be sure, but overall a very good read.
    • 1/5
      My high hopes for “Around the World in Eighty Days” were dashed in eight chapters or so.Having seen a film of this as a child, I expected a similar amount of fun and adventure, but instead I endured a tedious plot and unappealing characters.
    • 4/5
      Essentially light-hearted tale about a trip taken on a wager. The translation conveyed or possibly enhanced the humour.