Around the World in Eighty Days: A Quick Read edition
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"Around the World in Eighty Days" is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. The story follows Phileas Fogg, a wealthy English gentleman, and his French valet Passepartout as they attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 set by his friends at the Reform Club. The novel was written during difficult times for France and Verne, and the technological innovations of the 19th century had opened the possibility of rapid circumnavigation. The book sparked the imagination that anyone could travel around the world, a feat previously reserved for only the most heroic and hardy of adventurers. The idea of a trip around the world within a set period had clear external origins, and the title "Around the World in Eighty Days" is not original. The novel has been adapted into plays, films, and even a video game. The Jules Verne Trophy has been given to the boat that sails around the world without stopping and with no outside assistance in the shortest time since 1993. In 2017, Mark Beaumont, a British cyclist inspired by Verne, set out to cycle across the world in 80 days.
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This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.
- Reading time of the complete text: about 6 hours
- Reading time of the summarized text: 27 minutes
"Around the World in Eighty Days" is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. The story follows Phileas Fogg, a wealthy English gentleman, and his French valet Passepartout as they attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 set by his friends at the Reform Club. The novel was written during difficult times for France and Verne, and the technological innovations of the 19th century had opened the possibility of rapid circumnavigation. The book sparked the imagination that anyone could travel around the world, a feat previously reserved for only the most heroic and hardy of adventurers. The idea of a trip around the world within a set period had clear external origins, and the title "Around the World in Eighty Days" is not original. The novel has been adapted into plays, films, and even a video game. The Jules Verne Trophy has been given to the boat that sails around the world without stopping and with no outside assistance in the shortest time since 1993. In 2017, Mark Beaumont, a British cyclist inspired by Verne, set out to cycle across the world in 80 days.
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne ( VURN; French: ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account contemporary scientific knowledge and the technological advances of the time.
In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs, and scientific, artistic and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video games.
Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in the Anglosphere where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed. Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved.
Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking below Agatha Christie and above William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback. In the 2010s, he was the most translated French author in the world. In France, 2005 was declared "Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death.
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