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Around the World in Eighty Days (Coterie Classics) Kindle Edition
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“I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new” ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
When an arrogant young Englishman bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days, he begins an adventure that has been celebrated as a literary classic.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCoterie Classics
- Publication dateApril 8, 2016
- File size1707 KB
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- ASIN : B01E0KJ0AQ
- Publisher : Coterie Classics (April 8, 2016)
- Publication date : April 8, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 1707 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 108 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : B08BV1W7Z7
- Best Sellers Rank: #266,798 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #259 in Action & Adventure Literary Fiction
- #452 in Classic Action & Adventure (Books)
- #757 in Classic Literary Fiction
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Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French author best known for his tales of adventure, including Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days. A true visionary, Verne foresaw the skyscraper, the submarine, and the airplane, among many other inventions, and is now regarded as one of the fathers of science fiction.
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As a final reflection about the AmazonClassics books I can say they are, for works of public domain written in English, the best ones available: professional and exemplar formatting, modern typography, free of errors and free of introductions, studies and footnotes by nosy contemporary intellectuals with modern prejudices, instead, when you need it, there is the X-Ray function (the first paragraphs from the not that trusty Wikipedia that dislikes the past) to tell you what you need to know. They feel like having been written this morning for you, and that's good. The only strange detail is that they don't add the year of publication of the original edition. Nevertheless for foreign books most of them are good enough, with excellent translations from the public domain too, at first I was a bit afraid of outdated translations (which happens in Lysistrata and The Art of War) but for the most part I have grown fond of them. I don't know the original novel in French but so far the translation seems neutral. A very recommended edition and I am grateful to these AmazonClassics editions to take me into a journey of so many classical works in literature, science, philosophy and essays by many talented men and women in the history. I plan to get many of the books of this collection in good physical editions as a legacy for others after me (is a curious thought to wonder what happens with your Kindle books when your life ends), if you want to read this story in a good edition the AmazonClassics edition is a good choice.
Phileas Fogg is a practical, logical man with very predictable habits... so it comes across as a shock to both his newly hired servant, Passepartout, and the gentlemen's club he belong's to when he takes up a wager that will have him seeking to circumnavigate the world in no fewer than 80 days! With the long-suffering but eager to please Passepartout and a lovely Indian woman in tow, Fogg sets out to circle the world by train, steamship, elephant, sled, and any other means he can. But his journey is not without its mishaps or complications... the worst being a detective who suspects the journey is a ploy by Fogg to get away with a crime, and seeks to stop his journey at all costs...
The writing in this book can come across as a little stilted, especially to modern-readers. I attribute this partly to the common writing style of the time period and partly to the fact that this book is a translation -- often writing styles get lost in the shift from one language to the next. The story still manages to move at a fairly steady pace, though occasionally it gets bogged down in odd places. The story comes to a screeching halt at one point to deliver a history of the Mormon church in Utah, for example -- interesting, but hardly pertinent to the story -- and at other points pauses to make copious notes about the geography and architecture of wherever they happen to be. This makes it come across almost as a travelogue at times.
Fogg is a hard character to get to like at first -- so logical and seemingly without feeling that he's hard to relate to. His valet, Passepartout, is a much more relatable character, a hapless everyman dragged along in his master's footsteps but still willing to please. And as the story progresses Fogg reveals a warmer side to his personality, and gradually shows himself to be heroic as well as determined and not without sympathy toward others. And even Fix, the detective doggedly pursuing Fogg and his servant, is shown to be a decent character just trying to do justice as he sees it. The Indian woman who travels with them for much of the trip has little personality of her own, though -- she seems tossed in just to serve as a romantic interest. Ah well.
Also, a few bits included in this book are a little harsher in hindsight. An offhand remark about the number of bison blocking the train tracks and wishing they could just shoot them all can make the reader wince when they realize that bison were nearly driven to extinction in just such a manner...
While a little dated and slow to start, "Around the World in 80 Days" is still an entertaining adventure story, and while today one can traverse the world in a much shorter time, this is still a fascinating look at how it was done in centuries' past. And it's certainly a LOT better than the Jackie Chan film...
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2024
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Great Book for newcomers to improve english understanding and familiarity.
Great writer and good writing style
Reviewed in India on February 28, 2024