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Around the World in Eighty Days

Original title:
Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
Author:
Jules Verne (author)
Language:
English
Original language:
French
Categories:
Adventure and novel
Series:
Extraordinary Voyages (11/54)
Publication year:
1873
Synopsis:

Phileas Fogg, a London gentleman of the Reform Club (which is actually a real club), and his French valet, Passepartout, make a £20 000 bet with the other gentlemen of the Reform Club that circumnavigation of the Earth is possible in fewer than eighty days.

Review:

One would suspect that the novel would be boring nowadays, when circumnavigation can be done in far fewer than eighty days, but this is not the case. It's not so much the feat itself as the sense of adventure that makes the novel really good (and there is plenty of adventure to go around).

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