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    Around The World In 80 Days
    Around The World In 80 Days
    Around The World In 80 Days
    Audiobook7 hours

    Around The World In 80 Days

    Written by Jules Verne

    Narrated by Joseph Thompson

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    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 £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English gentleman living in solitude. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. Very little can be said about his social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed his former valet, James Foster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 °F instead of 86 °F, Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout as a replacement. At the Reform Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. He accepts a wager for £20,000 from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days. Accompanied by Passepartout, he leaves London by train at 8:45 P.M. on Wednesday, October 2, 1872, and is due back at the Reform Club at the same time 80 days later, Saturday, December 21, 1872.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNative Publishing House
    Release dateDec 3, 2020
    ISBN9781662164118
    Author

    Jules Verne

    Jules Gabriel Verne, a pioneering science-fiction writer, was born in the French port city of Nantes on 8 February, 1828, to Pierre Verne, a successful lawyer, and his wife Sophie. Verne published Five Weeks in a Balloon in 1863, an immediate hit, followed by Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), and his two most influential books, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) that combined the newly developing genre of travel writing with Verne's own experimentation with science fiction. Since 1979, he has been the second most translated writer in the world. Verne died of old age and illness on 24 March 1905.

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    Readers find this title to have a fine story, but some reviewers were disappointed with the narration. They felt that the storytelling was lacking and the declarative sentences had a gently upward inflection, which became tiresome for some listeners. Additionally, there was confusion about the authorship of the book, with some reviewers mistakenly attributing it to Victor Hugo instead of Jules Verne.

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    • 5/5
      Another book by Victor Hugo that is NOT by Victor Hugo, it was written by Jules Verne!
    • 3/5
      A fine story. I rated it a three due to the narration. There was no storytelling. Each sentence was clearly and concisely read and to top it off, each declarative sentence ends in a gently upward inflection. It wears on a listener unless one enjoys that type of narration.