Around the World in Eighty Days (Extraordinary Voyages, #11)

252 pages

English language

Published Nov. 21, 2004

ISBN:
978-0-14-044906-8
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Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.

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A tremendous romp from Jules Verne; fast paced and funny. The humour is largely based on caricatures of national stereotypes, however; the Brit (Fogg) is reserved to the extreme, unflappable, brave in a noble, resolute but not passionate way; the Frenchman is brave, resourceful, prone to passions and so forth.
The book celebrates technology and it's interesting to note that large scales and great speeds are focus. Many a modern SF novel is also interested in technology but miniaturisation is celebrated as much as large scales and great velocity - think of all the nano-tech and bio-interfaced computers as well as the worm-holes and galactic empires.

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