Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne
Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne
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Around the World in 80 Days
Timeless Classics

Author: Jules Verne

Narrator: Saddleback Educational Publishing

Abridged: 1 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2011


Synopsis

Phileas Fogg must be insane. No one has ever been able to circle the globe in 80 days! Yet he's bet his friends that he'll do just that. Half of his fortune is on the line… and the outcome looks far from certain.

About Jules Verne

French author Jules Verne was born in the port of Nantes in 1828. He later moved to Paris to study law. At age twenty-eight, he married Honorine de Viane, a young widow with two children. Verne published several plays under the tutelage of Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas. He made his living as a stockbroker until his first successful series, Voyages Extraordinaire, was published in 1863. Soon Verne's novels became enormously popular around the world. Without a scientific background or experiences as a traveler, Verne spent much of his time doing research for his books. However, when the logic of the story contradicted scientific knowledge, Verne took poetic license with science to serve his fast-paced adventures.

Verne's stories caught the spirit of the nineteenth century and its uncritical enthusiasm about scientific progress and invention. His works were often written in the form of a travel book taking the readers on fantastic voyages. Many of Verne's ideas have been hailed as prophetic, predicting some of the inventions that have changed our world, including the airplane, the submarine, and spacecraft. He published sixty-five novels, some twenty short stories and essays, thirty plays, an opera libretto and two geographical works.

In the first part of his career Verne expressed optimism about progress and Europe's central role in the social and technical development of the world. In Verne's later novels, the author's pessimism is reflected in the doom-laden fin-de-siècle atmosphere. In contrast to the adventurous spirit of his novels, Verne's personal life was relatively uneventful, with the exception of his surviving a murder attempt by his insane nephew. Verne died of natural causes in Amiens on March 24, 1905.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Himanshu on January 06, 2015

To start with, the idea of traveling around in India in trains is exciting enough to pick up this book. But its not long before you realize that the author lacks style and skill to do justice to such great subject. Still she manages to hold it together till the end and you don't find finishing the b......more

Goodreads review by Aneta Jackowska-Musiol on April 12, 2015

I read it to my boys at bedtime and, surprisingly, at times the book was quite boring for them. Loads of descriptions. But since it was going better and better every day.......more

Goodreads review by Mediana on December 02, 2014

An easy read, I thought I was borrowing the original Jules Verne book but I will read it later.......more

Goodreads review by Crystal on July 21, 2008

This book was great to see how to be in the present moment!......more