![]() His bad choices and often brainless behaviour get Fogg into some scrapes. This created a certain pace, flow and rhythm that I liked and felt worked really well. I like the fact Verne uses a journey as a setting and tells us the story as Fogg leaves London and travels all over the world to return to London. ![]() HIGHLIGHTS: I thought Around the World in 80 Days was great. The best known adaptation is the 1956 movie starring David Niven ( (1956_film) which earned 5 Oscars. This is a free e-book from Around the world in 80 days has been adapted into many forms of media including video games, musicals, radio plays and various film and TV versions. When Englishman Phileas Fogg takes on a bet of £20,000 from his gentlemen’s club that he cannot circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or less–an unheard-of feat in the Victorian world–he sets off, with his manservant Passepartout at his side, on a series of exotic exploits and comic misadventures (Fogg is mistaken for a thief on the run by a pursuing Scotland Yard detective)… ![]() First serialized in a French newspaper in 1872, this is perhaps the most beloved and the most enduring of Jules Verne’s novels of imaginative escapades. ![]()
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