Around the World in Eighty Days
By Jules Verne
- Release Date: 2008-05-15
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Description
Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1,511,978 today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.
Reviews
Great ending
5By reading machine 11I love the ending of this book. The quality of the options of how you can read it is amazing!Amazing
5By smooth-justiceEasily one of the most captivating books I have ever read.!!!
5By cruz77777777If you’re ensorcelled by elephant howdah absconders, Sioux train ambuscades, ice yachting brumal plains, storm-jibs weathering tempestuous surges, and a lovelorn damsel betrothing an insouciant prevaricating hero from the palanquins of India to the spires in Liverpool, then this is the novelist for you.It’s certainly not Dickens!
5By XibeeTo anyone who has only heard of Jules Verne by reputation and Steampunk references, by all means read this: it’s written so well that you can’t believe it was created so long ago. It’s clever, funny, dramatic, and almost cinematic. Its style doesn’t hamper or feel antique. It’s fresh and an adventure.Great Classic
5By music_94The PBS Masterpiece show coincided with my reading this classic. Both were exciting but the book edged ahead in excitement and details. Fun to read in ebooks and be able to define so many new words. Great story and education, too!Fun book
5By Ambiguously entertainingThis is far more entertaining than expected
