Around the World in 80 Days

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There are maybe half a dozen similarities between book and TV versions, so don't expect the same escapades if you have seen the dramatisation first. In 1984, Nicholas Coleridge emulated Fogg's trip, taking 78 days; he wrote a book titled Around the World in 78 Days. [14] History | Worlds of Fun, Kansas City MO". Worldsoffun.com. 21 March 2012. Archived from the original on 24 November 2015 . Retrieved 23 November 2015. In 2009, twelve celebrities performed a relay version of the journey for the BBC Children in Need charity appeal.

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The 2014 game of the same name, 80 Days (2014 video game), developed by Inkle, is loosely based on the novel while introducing various science fiction elements. Following publication in 1873, various people attempted to follow Fogg's fictional circumnavigation, often within self-imposed constraints: Passepartout heard the street door shut once; it was his new master going out. He heard it shut again; it was his predecessor, James Forster, departing in his turn. Passepartout remained alone in the house on Savile Row. Worlds of Fun, an amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri, was conceived using the novel as its theme. [38] In the early 1860s, a magazine manager liked one of his adventure stories and gave him a contract to write similar stories for the next twenty years! The collected stories became known as Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. His stories were of fantastic adventures with a degree of realism in the descriptions of events and scientific content - he was a pioneer of science fiction. He did lots of research for his books but occasionally made up a scientific 'fact' if it suited the story. History has shown that he had an incredible sense of what was possible - his imagined inventions have often turned out to be close to later real inventions.

Since 1993, the Jules Verne Trophy has been given to the boat that sails around the world without stopping and with no outside assistance in the shortest time.

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An undertaking such as this risks seeming random, as frantically improvised as Fogg’s itinerary when he misses an onward connection. Damrosch avoids diffuseness by seizing on spatial coincidences. In Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow presents East Africa as a warped replica of Manhattan: the voice of the tribal potentate Dahfu resembles the hum from the electricity substation on 16th Street, and his shamanistic antics recall the expensive mumbo-jumbo of the city’s psychotherapists. Epigrams and puns build instant bridges between epochs and idioms. The 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō bumps into Andy Warhol when a haiku praising him is recited during an episode of The Simpsons; the tribute, Damrosch says, confers on Bashō “an aptly ephemeral immortality: 15 pixels of fame”. A character in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake asks, “Are we speachin d’anglas landage or are you sprakin sea Djoytsch?”, which goads Damrosch to some wordplay of his own. Ireland, he says, is “a land that is at sea”, its insularity dissolved by Joyce’s oceanic Esperanto. La Tierra es más pequeña, puesto que puede ser recorrida diez veces más rápido que hace cien años." Many thanks for alerting me to this exciting series on our local PBS - did not know about this before. And thank you for a wonderful article about Jules Vernes - magnifique!The steamer passed along near the shores, but the savage Papuans, who are in the lowest scale of humanity, but are not, as has been asserted, cannibals, did not make their appearance." Was Phileas Fogg rich? Undoubtedly. But those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr. Fogg was the last person to whom to apply for the information. He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary, avaricious; for whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly, and sometimes anonymously. He was, in short, the least communicative of men. He talked very little, and seemed all the more mysterious for his taciturn manner. His daily habits were quite open to observation; but whatever he did was so exactly the same thing that he had always done before, that the wits of the curious were fairly puzzled.

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De todas maneras me entretuvo y me hicieron gracia sus personajes y especialmente las constantes comparaciones entre el carácter inglés y el francés.ln 1923, a silent serial based on the book was released. Titled Around the World in 18 days, the serial told the story of Fogg's descendant, Phileas Fogg III, and his attempt to recreate his grandfather's journey. He lived alone, and so to speak, outside of every social relation; and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody. With his new valet, also a loyal to the core companion, Passepartout, he sets out to accomplish the set mission.

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Jules Verne is a favorite author from my childhood. I have been rereading some of his works and to be honest I've been left a little underwhelmed. Not so with around the world in 80 days! It's a 5-star read and most likely my favorite extraordinary voyages. Afterwards I instinctively felt that those books should remain in my childhood, that I might find things in them I would find ludicrous or horrible now. But the initiation rite of reading Verne when I was an impressionable ten-year-old will always be a memory of great importance to me. The real Phileas Fogg: the true story of the woman who travelled around the world in (less than) 80 days One night Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the world in just eighty days and the very next day sets out from the port of Dover with his servant Passeportout to achieve his aim.Similar descriptions applied to Punjabis, Chinese, and Native Americans are littered throughout the book. 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). David Tennant starred as Phileas Fogg in a 2021 television adaptation, Around the World in 80 Days. [31] 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." For the rest of his writing career Verne rarely traveled. Rather he would surround himself with books and research the landscapes of his novels without ever setting foot there himself. Other characters Fix (a stalking policeman) and Aouda (a rescued Indian damsel) are amazingly created colourful characters too. Book 848 From 1001 Books) - Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingts Jours = Around The World in Eighty Days (Extraordinary Voyages #11), Jules Verne