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As the 2004 film adaptation of Around the World in Eighty Days opens, two significant events happen. First, we see a Chinese man named Passepartout (played by Jackie Chan) fleeing from the Bank of England, which has just been robbed. Secondly, we meet Phileas Fogg (played by Steve Coogan), an inventor who seems obsessed with creating new and ...
Full Title: Around the World in Eighty Days. When Written: 1870-1871. Where Written: France. When Published: 1872 in serial form, 1873 in book form. Literary Period: Romanticism, realism. Genre: Adventure novel. Setting: Britain, Egypt, India, China, Japan, and the United States. Climax: Jean Passepartout realizes that he and Phileas Fogg ...
2021. Set sail in Jules Verne’s iconic hot air balloon with Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix in a thrilling, modern adaptation of the classic adventure novel. David Tennant ( Good Omens ...
Osgood, 1873 - Voyages around the world - 315 pages. Often regarded as Verne's greatest non-science fiction adventure story, "Around the World in 80 Days" is a thrill ride from start to finish. Meet Phileas Fogg, a wealthy British gentleman who proclaims that with a new railroad in India, it is now possible to travel around the globe in 80 days.
Jules Verne was born in France in 1828 and died in 1905. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel was wildly successful, producing many brilliant novels in the burgeoning genre of science fiction: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Around the World in 80 Days, among others.
Apr 12, 2005 · Around the World in 80 Days. Audio CD – Unabridged, April 12, 2005. Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses ...
also enjoyed. Around The World In 80 Days. by Jules Verne. 3.95 avg. rating · 2,000 Ratings. Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club. Want to Read.
