Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne (Annotated)

But Fogg misses his train and ends up returning to London five minutes late. He sadly apologizes to Aouda for losing the wager. She tells him she loves him and asks him to marry her. The next morning they arrive at the minister's to be married and realize they had the date wrong. They'd gained a day travelling eastward and it's only December 21! Fogg can still win the wager, but he has to hurry. Fogg arrives triumphant at the Reform Club. He and Aouda are married and live happily ever after. Around the World in Eighty Days was published in and is one of Jules Vernes most celebrated novels.

The story follows two travelers that grow to a trio and then a foursome as they fight their way through countless obstacles to reach home. The main characters are Phileas Fogg who is trying to win a bet that he made with the Reform Club that he can travel around the world in 80 days. Jean Passepartout , Fogg's French butler, Detective Fix , who works for Scotland Yard and is on the trail of Fogg, who he thinks is a bank robber and Aouda , an Indian princess who is rescued by Fogg and Passepartout, travels with them and then marries Fogg.

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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne: Summary & Characters

Explore over 4, video courses. Find a degree that fits your goals. Ruthless Phileas Fogg lies, cheats, and does whatever he has to do to prove he can get around the world in 80 days. Try it risk-free for 30 days. An error occurred trying to load this video. Try refreshing the page, or contact customer support. Register to view this lesson Are you a student or a teacher? I am a student I am a teacher. What teachers are saying about Study. Are you still watching? Your next lesson will play in 10 seconds. Add to Add to Add to. Want to watch this again later?

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An advertisement for a stage adaptation Fogg and Passepartout take the train to Suez, Egypt. Try it risk-free No obligation, cancel anytime. Want to learn more? Select a subject to preview related courses: Unlock Your Education See for yourself why 30 million people use Study. Become a Member Already a member? He wrote a book in that was translated into French: Gemelli Careri provides rich accounts of seventeenth-century civilization outside of Europe. References to his books can be found in other historical publications like the Calcutta Review.

In , Thomas Cook organised the first around-the-world tourist trip, leaving on 20 September and returning seven months later. The journey was described in a series of letters that were published in as Letter from the Sea and from Foreign Lands, Descriptive of a tour Round the World. Scholars have pointed out similarities between Verne's account and Cook's letters, although some argue that Cook's trip happened too late to influence Verne.

All of these point to Cook's advert as being a probable spark for the idea of the book. The periodical Le Tour du monde 3 October contained a short piece titled "Around the World in Eighty Days", which refers to " miles" of railway not yet completed between Allahabad and Bombay, a central point in Verne's work. A possible inspiration was the traveller George Francis Train , who made four trips around the world, including one in 80 days in Similarities include the hiring of a private train and being imprisoned. Train later claimed, "Verne stole my thunder.

Regarding the idea of gaining a day, Verne said of its origin: The story was not written until long after. I carry ideas about in my head for years — ten, or 15 years, sometimes — before giving them form. Poe's story "Three Sundays in a Week" was clearly the inspiration for the lost day plot device.

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The Extraordinary Voyages January 30, [2]. Calcutta to Victoria , Hong Kong. Steamer the Rangoon across the South China Sea. Yokohama to San Francisco , United States. Steamer the China across the Atlantic Ocean to Liverpool and rail. Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.

Aug 20, Nayra. View all 18 comments. Sep 13, Lyn rated it liked it. Around the World in Eighty Days was first published by Jules Verne in , and was introduced to an adoring public as monthly installments. Each chapter is thus seen as connected but with its own hooks and cliffhangers. The character of Phileas Fogg has become a stoic archetype for too cool operators in books to come in several genres. This is fast moving and fun, still a good read over a hundred years later.

One very interesting aspect of the narrative was the portrait of the American west in Around the World in Eighty Days was first published by Jules Verne in , and was introduced to an adoring public as monthly installments. One very interesting aspect of the narrative was the portrait of the American west in the s from a European perspective.

View all 11 comments. Aug 02, Baba rated it did not like it Shelves: A couple days ago my son and I were talking about boring classroom reading material. This reminded me that I never rated this glorious piece of classic literature.

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How anyone would insist that students had to mandatorily read it in the 80s is beyond me, let alone in the 21st century. A couple years ago, when my son came home with that little paperback edition and whined about how incredibly uninteresting this "gem" is, I calmed him down by saying 1 I-hated-ityears-ago-and-still-hate-it star.

A couple years ago, when my son came home with that little paperback edition and whined about how incredibly uninteresting this "gem" is, I calmed him down by saying that I felt for him because it bored me to tears back in the 80s. Yes, I have no scruples to say that I hated it. May 21, Charity rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: People who love grand adventures.

I finished Around the World in 80 Days today and it was even better than I remembered from my childhood. Admittedly, the version I had read as a child was the Great Illustrated Classics edition that was, unfortunately, abridged. I felt that a reading of the unabridged classic was long overdue. Shockingly enough, I still remembered the ending 20 years later. Just the task Phileas Fogg faces in traveling the world in 80 days in the 19th century and the obstacles that pop up to delay his travels w I finished Around the World in 80 Days today and it was even better than I remembered from my childhood.

Just the task Phileas Fogg faces in traveling the world in 80 days in the 19th century and the obstacles that pop up to delay his travels would make for a fabulous story, but the element of a cat-and-mouse chase really puts this book over the top! I highly recommend it for anyone who loves grand adventure stories.

I can see why Jules Verne is touted as one of the finest French authors. He is deserving of all accolades! Jun 30, Bradley rated it really liked it Shelves: The original steampunk adventure! Written while it was still called modern! Jules Verne knows how to write a fast-paced adventure with French tomfoolery and English sprats. You had to be there. And you also have to enjoy a period piece, too! But that's not all, folks The original steampunk adventure! But that's not all, folks! The Indian Princess gets saved by the Bully Englishman!

I've almost got a picture in my head of Tarzan swinging Jane through the jungle.

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It really is a fun novel, all told. Light fun, adventure, theft, mistaken identity, and even a moral to tuck in the end of the story to send us off to dreamland. View all 6 comments. Jan 11, David Sasaki rated it did not like it. Whether or not you've read the novel or watched the movie, Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days is so embedded in Western culture that just about everyone knows the basic plot premise: The idea for the story came from the actual journey of eccentric Bostonian George Francis Train.

Who liked Whether or not you've read the novel or watched the movie, Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days is so embedded in Western culture that just about everyone knows the basic plot premise: What I hadn't expected of Verne's novel is that it is such a blatant reminder of how far we've come in the last years since colonialist superiority was treated as unquestioned fact: It's also clear that, at the time of writing the novel, Verne was an unabashed Anglophile.

Not only is the book a celebration of the British empire at its peak, but Verne is constantly praising Fogg's alleged English qualities honor, stoicism, courage and jabbing at his servent Passepartout's Frenchness temperamental, impetuous, chatty. What I found fascinating about Around the World in 80 Days has nothing to do with the book itself, but rather how Jules Verne wrote it.

When he was a young boy, according to accounts of relatives , he ran away from home and attempted to sail out to sea to follow the adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Having failed, he promised his mother that "henceforth I will travel only in dream. Rather he would surround himself with books and research the landscapes of his novels without ever setting foot there himself. If you have even the most remote interest in African issues then you probably follow Ethan's blog.

He is incredibly talented at consuming and digesting large volumes of information about a complicated topic and then presenting that information in an easy-to-follow narrative that doesn't simplify its complexity. But in all my years of following Ethan's blog I think he's only traveled to Africa for two short conference-related trips. The obvious difference between Ethan and Jules apart from the fact that Ethan is both nicer and more empathetic is the number of research and communication tools that we now have at our disposal.

Verne had his local library, letters, and the telegraph. Today, apart from being able to glimpse the front pages of hundreds of newspapers from around the world at the Newseum , we are also able to learn about the world around us in real time thanks to Global Voices , Facebook , YouTube , Twitter , and Google Earth. What's more, we can - and often do - develop real and meaningful friendships from our interactions on those sites.

Still, there is something about being on the ground, there in person, that allows you to soak in and understand new lands, cultures, and customs in a way that even the most advanced virtual worlds could never rival. I doubt that Ethan would be such an impassioned Africaphile were it not for his time spent in Ghana. And Joi is right , if he really wants to understand the Middle East, the best thing to do is move there.

Though mentioning United Arab Emirates' tax benefits would have been a brave gesture of sincerity. I do understand that increased international travel is neither good for our environment nor our budgets. But, done responsibly, it is good for humanity. The more we experience other cultures the more we understand about ourselves and our place in the world.

Which is why I wholly support initiatives like Abby Falik's Global Citizen Year fellowship program which hopefully won't be bogged down by the bureaucracy, legacy, and politics of Peace Corps. As Michael Naimark notes in a smart essay on the 80plus1 website , Verne's novel celebrated the technological advances of the industrial era.

Thanks to the steam engine, railways, and global colonialism, it was possible for the first time to circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days. Today we're still at the dawn of a new era of technological advances: These tools will lead to a new era of exploration.

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There are no longer new lands, tribes, and cities to discover. Just by starting up Google Earth we can cast our eyes on every hidden corner of the world. The curiosity that inspires exploration, however, remains. Something keeps Matt traveling and dancing around the world and keeps Nicholas daydreaming about his next trip to Guyana or Venezuela or Argentina. Something inspired this Chinese blogger to travel around the world in days. But exploration today isn't about discovering the so-called undiscovered.

It's about understanding what has been there all along. View all 21 comments. Sep 13, Katie Lumsden rated it it was amazing Shelves: I really enjoyed this - a fun and interesting read, and more heartfelt than I expected. It's quite interesting to see a French take on 19th century Englishness, and a 19th century perspective on the world.

The best adventure work till date! View all 3 comments. Nov 08, Lea rated it it was amazing Shelves: This book brings so much childhood memories back. My dad just to read aloud and retell over and over again Jules Verne 's stories and I'm so grateful for that. It ignited my passion for reading a long time ago, as I learned for the first time that I can travel around the world through books and stories, laying in the warm room.

I can still remember the vivid images of my imagination that I had as a child listening to this story and feelings will never fade, I still felt quite emotional rereading This book brings so much childhood memories back. I can still remember the vivid images of my imagination that I had as a child listening to this story and feelings will never fade, I still felt quite emotional rereading this story and joining Mr. Fogg on his journey. Thank you, dad, and that you Mr.

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Verne for introducing me to the magical world of literature. View all 13 comments. It was a fun view into life about a century ago.