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    Around the World in 80 Days: Classic Tales Edition
    Around the World in 80 Days: Classic Tales Edition
    Around the World in 80 Days: Classic Tales Edition
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    Around the World in 80 Days: Classic Tales Edition

    Written by Jules Verne

    Narrated by B. J. Harrison

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    About this audiobook

    Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of stringent and inflexible habits, proposes that he can circumvent the globe in 80 days. He wagers half of his fortune to this effect. But when a high profile bank robbery occurs, the dogged Detective Fix is convinced that Mr. Fogg is an audacious bank robber, and that his entire “gentleman’s wager” is a charade.

    Thus begins a wild battle of cat and mouse which takes the clever combatants around the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherB.J. Harrison
    Release dateSep 16, 2015
    ISBN9781937091460
    Around the World in 80 Days: Classic Tales Edition
    Author

    Jules Verne

    Jules Gabriel Verne was born in the seaport of Nantes, France, in 1828 and was destined to follow his father into the legal profession. In Paris to train for the bar, he took more readily to literary life, befriending Alexander Dumas and Victor Hugo, and living by theatre managing and libretto-writing. His first science-based novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon, was issued by the influential publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel in 1862, and made him famous. Verne and Hetzel collaborated to write dozens more such adventures, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1869 and Around the World in 80 Days in 1872. In later life Verne entered local politics at Amiens, where had had a home. He also kept a house in Paris, in the street now named Boulevard Jules Verne, and a beloved yacht, the Saint Michel, named after his son. He died in 1905.

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    • 5/5
      Great reader; I enjoyed the audio book very much. Classic story which I hadn't read in years. Thank you for making it available to us.
    • 4/5
      This travel novel has great adventure stories about the different cities visited. The characters are well-developed and lovable.The different places of the world were written about in a way that must have been experienced by the author. It was amusing to read how the author portrayed America and its people. The ending was quite surprising and a great conclusion to the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys traveling.
    • 5/5
      I read this book for the first as a read-aloud to my son when he was about 12. We were rivetted, on the edge of our seats. Excitement and humour, a must read.
    • 4/5
      Good book, fun (if long...) movie. Will he make it? It's how it is actually done that makes it a hoot.
    • 4/5
      I read the Project Gutenberg version of this, in the end: I don't know who translated it, but the translation was really quite nice. I enjoyed this book more than I expected to. For all that he bribes his way around the world, really, Phileas Fogg has some interesting adventures, including saving a lovely young woman and commandeering a ship. I thought the characters were all quite fun. There are stereotypes and so on, and it's very very biased toward all things English, seemingly, but knowing about that in advance, I could ignore it.

      I loved the end a lot more than I expected to. I thought it was clever, and I enjoyed seeing a softer side of Phileas Fogg (one that I had, of course, been suspecting for a while).
    • 5/5
      I read this book awhile ago so this review is not going to go into to much detail about what I liked and what I didn't like. However there is nothing about this book that I remember disliking.

      I loved it. I stayed up all night reading it- it helped that I have never seen any of the movies or met anyone else that has read this book (OK I don't actually know if that is true I guess some of my teachers had probably read this book but I haven't spoken about this book with anyone else who read it.) and, because of that, I had no idea what was going to happen in the end or even during the book. I thought it was all very entertaining- it was one of the first classics I read without being told to.

      When I finished it I said to myself, "Wow that was a good book." I love reading but that doesn't happen often for me (I can only think of two other books that have had that effect on me).

      I recommend this book to everyone but especially people who like adventure stories or classics.
    • 3/5
      Good adventure story, but I was a bit surprised by the Mormon preacher in Utah--he was a crazy fanatic! This is a classic for anyone.
    • 5/5
      I haven't read this in years, but still know the story fairly well (I certainly know how it ends) and yet my heart was still racing at the very end.
    • 5/5
      Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne was a very quick but enjoyable read. One has to keep in mind, though, that it was written in the 1870's and had some pro-colonialism to the novel. Two things struck me while reading the story; first, was the Verne made his main character, Phileas Fogg, an Englishman and Jean Passepartout, Fogg's valet, a Frenchman who Verne was as well; secondly, there was a whole chapter dedicated to inform the reader on some Latter -day Saint (or Mormon) history that wasn't negative towards the religion (keep in mind at the time this book was written Utah was not a state thus polygamy wasn't outlawed.

      The best parts, to me, were the descriptions of the geography and how ahead of time the novel was when it came to international travel. Nowadays, one can fly around the world in less than eighty days when, during the time, planes weren't even invented yet.
    • 3/5
      It's easy to see why it's a classic book; the framework of Around the World in 80 Days is great, a rousing adventure that shows various distinct places in the world in 1872, with an added police pursuit for complication. It's also easy to see why it is significantly modified in more modern filmed versions, as it is steeped in colonialism with an absolutely vapid main character and one major female character who is there to be rescued and adore the vapid main character. That said, after the first few chapters of info dump, it's a very fast read because of the pace of the action.
    • 4/5
      Lively translation, although Butcher's notes are less helpful than they could be.
    • 3/5
      Having never read this book, I downloaded a free audiobook to see just how far from the original text the Masterpiece Theater mini-series is from the original source material. The answer to that is A LOT – so much so that the TV series would seem to be a wholly different story. As to the book, Verne wrote what could be called a “ripping yarn” with Phileas Fogg as the savant who can solve all problems on the trip around the globe, Fixx is the bumbling detective who is pursuing Fogg convinced that he has robbed the Bank of England of 50,000 pounds, Passerpartout provides comic relief, and the beautiful Indian widow Aouda provides the love interest. The “surprise” at the end of the novel will be no surprise to anyone who has traveled to the far east, but then in 1872 I’m assuming people weren’t as familiar with the International Date Line as they are today. My big quibble with the novel, is why Fogg hadn’t figured this out.
    • 5/5
      Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days is an absolute joy. This gleeful romp, wherein Phileas Fogg places a bet with some associates at the Reform Club that he can indeed perform the titular feat in that prescribed timeframe. Verne is at his wittiest, with a wonderful cast of characters: Fogg, one of literature’s great eccentrics; his loyal and resourceful servant Passepartout; and the comically inept Detective Fix, in hot pursuit of Fogg who has become a suspect in a recent bank robbery. Along the way Verne provides panoramic travelogue summaries for each new locale, which colorfully set the scenes. The story flows like a giddy Wes Anderson screenplay - and, in my view, that’s a compliment to both Anderson and Verne.
    • 4/5
      I loved this book and can't believe I waited so long to read it, back in grammar school and high school I read most of Verne's SF but skipped this because it wasn't SF, big mistake. I'd recommend this fans of Verne, steampunk or adventure travel lovers.
    • 3/5
      I may have read an abridged version of this when I was very young, but I didn't remember the story at all, so reading this book was a fun experience. Phileas Fogg, accompanied by his servant Passepartout, sets out on a journey around the world aiming to win a bet. The two head east from London, using many different means of transportation and encountering assorted obstacles that threaten to slow them down.I'm definitely happy that I read it (I listened to it as an audiobook on a drive) and thought that it was cute, though I don't think that this will be an especially memorable book for me.
    • 3/5
      Why is there a hot air balloon on the cover? Why is that image so closely associated with this book?
      Spoiler: they never take a balloon. Huh.

      Very much a book of its time, I think, though hard for me to judge if the author was sincere in his stereotypes that are often racist (by today's standards) or if he's offering social commentary through sarcasm or tongue-in-cheek descriptions. Those nuances are lost in time, though I suppose I could read literary criticism to find out what the academics say. He does caricature the Americans in a comical way, though. That, and his portrayal of French, Indian, British, and a few other nationalities, it is a bit of a world whirlwind tour of the stereotypes in the major world stage players. Maybe that's the symbolism of the hot air balloon?
      This audiobook is very entertaining, with many sound effects and great accents and voices. Would captivate even a younger audience (8 maybe).
    • 3/5
      "A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager," replied Phileas Fogg, solemnly.With this we're off to the one of the best adventure stories... And no matter how often I read this book, I still get excited about whether they will make it back to the Reform Club in time. Anyway, while Phileas Fogg is of course the originator of the bet and the driving force behind the trip. Having meticulously planned the route and conveyances that would allow him to circumnavigate the world, of course nothing goes to plan...Verne's writing is fantastic in this one, because it is both funny, sensitive, and informative, and you just want to be on that trip.But the absolute best part of the book is Fogg's man Passepartout. Passepartout was by no means one of those pert dunces depicted by Moliere with a bold gaze and a nose held high in the air; he was an honest fellow, with a pleasant face, lips a trifle protruding, soft-mannered and serviceable, with a good round head, such as one likes to see on the shoulders of a friend.He is the absolute hero of the story even though the original meeting between Fogg and Passepartou indicates that he had other plans for his time in Fogg's employment:"You are a Frenchman, I believe," asked Phileas Fogg, "and your name is John?" "Jean, if monsieur pleases," replied the newcomer, "Jean Passepartout, a surname which has clung to me because I have a natural aptness for going out of one business into another. I believe I'm honest, monsieur, but, to be outspoken, I've had several trades. I've been an itinerant singer, a circus-rider, when I used to vault like Leotard, and dance on a rope like Blondin. Then I got to be a professor of gymnastics, so as to make better use of my talents; and then I was a sergeant fireman at Paris, and assisted at many a big fire. But I quitted France five years ago, and, wishing to taste the sweets of domestic life, took service as a valet here in England. Finding myself out of place, and hearing that Monsieur Phileas Fogg was the most exact and settled gentleman in the United Kingdom, I have come to monsieur in the hope of living with him a tranquil life, and forgetting even the name of Passepartout."Such a great read.
    • 4/5
      A fast-paced adventure dripped with cliches and humor - I listened to the audio read by Jim Dale and it was a lovely way to spend an afternoon.
    • 4/5
      There's something rather charming and fantastic about this work, and in the way that Verne manages to bring to life characters in even such a fast-paced and simply told tale as this one. Certainly, the language is as dated as the narrative and the modes of transportation involved in Fogg's journey, but in an odd way, that feels to make it all the more fantastic and believable. Strange as that might be.I don't think I would have had the patience for this tale when I was younger, so I'm glad to have finally gotten around to it now. Certainly, I'd recommend it.
    • 4/5
      This was a very suspenseful, exciting book! This was the first Verne book I've ever read, and he is very good at keeping readers gnawing on their nails at the edge of their seats. The story has humor sprinkled throughout it that had me laughing out loud. I loved it; I know I say this about nearly everything I read, but this truly was a wonderful book!
    • 5/5
      Delightful book. Passepartout is the real hero; saving lives all over the globe.
    • 3/5
      An old book that has dated well. It is a good tale, well told. of two Londoner's travel around the world to win a wager. While the errors in detail in some places helps us understand how hard fact checking was in a pre-Google world, there is enough got right to make the reading enjoyable. In particular, the twist in the plot based on the travellers maintaining London time for the whole journey leading to them miscounting the number of days away from London, is a little gem.
    • 3/5
      Interesting story from a historical perspective. Definitely not something that could be written today.
    • 4/5
      My most recent installment book was Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne which was originally published in 1873 and I think it has definitely aged well. The story is told in a simple straightforward style, and the various global adventures move the story along at a rapid pace. The plot is a little silly yet the book comes together nicely and before too long the reader finds himself involved in the story and rooting for the participants. The characters are distinct and well developed from the routine-obsessed, uptight yet cool main character who travels around the world based on a bet from some of the gentlemen at his club, to the sympathetic French manservant who is loyal, smart and a very good gymnast. Even the lesser developed characters of Aouda, the Indian lady, to Fix, the stalking policeman, are colourful and add to the story. Around the World in Eighty Days is light, fun and makes for great escape reading. A little dated, to be sure, but overall a very good read.
    • 1/5
      My high hopes for “Around the World in Eighty Days” were dashed in eight chapters or so.Having seen a film of this as a child, I expected a similar amount of fun and adventure, but instead I endured a tedious plot and unappealing characters.
    • 4/5
      Essentially light-hearted tale about a trip taken on a wager. The translation conveyed or possibly enhanced the humour.
    • 4/5
      This is full of adventure. It was written at a time when people couldn’t find facts about other parts of the world as easily as we can today. Even though it may not be completely accurate, it sparks an interest by showing different countries around the world. I enjoyed the trip. It highlights different people, cultures and forms of transportation. Also, there are so many obstacles and near misses to keep everything exciting (It’s a race and high stakes bet).
    • 3/5
      Jim Dale (narrator of the Harry Potter series) really helped bring to life this classic adventure novel. Admittedly, I've never read the book or seen any of the movie adaptations, so I didn't know what to expect. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that there was no hot air balloon scene?! The most iconic book covers and images have always portrayed Phileas Fogg in a hot air balloon traveling around the world but, spoiler alert, that is not one of the methods used for transportation. While at his gentleman's club Fogg takes a bet that he can go round the world in 80 days. A precise, mathematical, and intelligent man, Fogg has no doubt that it can be done so he bets his life savings. Armed with only a small travel sack and his trusty French manservant, the two of them depart on the biggest adventure of their lives. Exotic adventures await them in China, India, Hong Kong, crossing the oceans, and America. Can Fogg really pull it off? And why is there a British man tailing him on this journey? A fun read for all ages. Admittedly, a little outdated in terms of racism and stereotypes of other religions and cultures, but it must be remembered that Jules Verne was viewing the world the British lens of imperialism at the time.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. The prose has a lovely flow to it.
    • 4/5
      Well-paced, familiar adventure yarn, offering also a travelogue and 'ethnologue' of the world of as it was then - or as viewed through a mid-19th century lens. Phileas Fogg travels the world without relaxing his sangfroid, sidekick Passepartout stays agitated throughout. On the way, they rescue an Indian beauty from her widow's pyre, almost fight a duel, dodge arrest by a mistaken detective, etc. Remarkable that they get all the way to Shanghai before actually leaving British territory (except for France and Italy, which are in fact skipped over here; sorry, no balloon ride in the original). At some point, one tires of the formula, and the shallow writing, but the inventiveness remains a pleasure.