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Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde enquatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the Frenchwriter Jules Verne, first published in 1872. In the story, PhileasFogg of London and his newly-employed French valet Passepartoutattempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a ￡20,000 wagerset by his friends at the Reform Club.

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Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en
quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French
writer Jules Verne, first published in 1872. 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
set by his friends at the Reform Club. 
 
Publisher Comments: 
 
Jules Verne Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in
1873, and today Around the World in Eighty Days remains Jules
Verne’s most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and
mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in
just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and exciting
suspense story. Together with his manservant, Passepartout, Fogg
makes a breathless world tour, overcoming wild misadventures and
finding time to rescue a beautiful Indian maharani from a burning
funeral pyre—all the while restlessly pursued by a bumbling
detective called Mr. Fix. Realistically utilizing nearly every
means of transportation known in the 1870s, Around the World in
Eighty Days generated enchantment with scientific progress—and its
delightful mixture of fantasy, comedy, and dazzling suspense has
kept it a perennially superb entertainment. 
 
From School Library Journal 
 
Grade 6 Up?To most modern kids, classics may be great, worthy, even
exciting stories, but they were written in and for their own times
and the context can sometimes be obscure. Using the visually
irresistible printing techniques popularized by the "Eyewitness"
series, these two books, when prominently displayed, will probably
attract more impulse readers than some of the dustier editions. But
do they accomplish their stated aim? Direct textual illustration is
plentiful, lively, and useful. The reproductions of prints,
photographs, and maps that pepper each page and are intended to
enhance readers' grasp of the times, however, are a mixed success.
There is a sameness to them and an arbitrary feel to their use.
Pirate buffs will find Treasure Island's variety of ship drawings,
details of sailing minutiae, and photographs of pieces of eight or
guns and swords quite satisfying. Verne's work is less enhanced by
its graphics. This episodic travelogue would be best served by lots
of clear maps with the route well marked. But the few maps shown
are so small that the legends are unreadable and country and city
names are blurred. Limitations aside, the initial appeal of this
fresh approach may serve to attract some new readers to these
enduring stories that have managed without any help for this
long.?Sally Margolis, formerly at Deerfield Public Library,
IL 
 
From AudioFile 
 
On a wager with his chums at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg attempts
the trip described in the title of this classic adventure novel.
Burton does a fine job reading this skillful abridgment, changing
voices effectively and pacing himself well. Classical music is used
as an effective bridge between chapters. Superior liner notes
include a chapter outline, a brief biographical sketch of Verne and
a list of the music used in the program. P.B.J. 
 
About the Author 
 
Jules Verne was born into a family with a seafaring tradition in
Nantes, France in 1828. Verne was sent to Paris to study law, but
once there, he quickly fell in love with the theater. He was soon
writing plays and opera librettos, and his first play was produced
in 1850. When he refused his father's entreaties to return to
Nantes and practice law, his allowance was cut off, and he was
forced to make his living by selling stories and articles. Soon he
was turning out imaginative stories such as Five Weeks in a Balloon
(1863), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and From the
Earth to the Moon (1865), which were immensely popular all over the
world. His ability to envision the next stage in man's
technological progress produced 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
and Michael Strogoff (1876). His biggest success came with Around
the World in Eighty Days (1872). Verne's books made him famous and
rich. In 1876, he bought a large steam yacht in which he could
write more comfortably than on shore. His books were widely
translated, dramatized, and later filmed. He died in Amiens in
1905. 
 
Book Dimension 
Height (mm) 176 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Width (mm) 110

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作者简介

Jules Verne

Jules Verne 1828–1905, French novelist, originator of modernscience fiction. After completing his studies at the Nantes lycée,he went to Paris to study law. He early became interested in thetheater and wrote (1848–50) librettos for operettas. For some yearshis concerns alternated between business and the theater, but after1863 he drew upon his interest in science and geography to write aseries of romances of extraordinary journeys, in which heanticipated, with remarkable foresight, many scientific andtechnological achievements of the 20th cent.

Jules Verne 
 
Jules Verne 1828–1905, French novelist, originator of modern
science fiction. After completing his studies at the Nantes lycée,
he went to Paris to study law. He early became interested in the
theater and wrote (1848–50) librettos for operettas. For some years
his concerns alternated between business and the theater, but after
1863 he drew upon his interest in science and geography to write a
series of romances of extraordinary journeys, in which he
anticipated, with remarkable foresight, many scientific and
technological achievements of the 20th cent. 
 
Verne is especially known to English readers in translations of his
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), A Journey to the Center of the
Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand
Leagues under the Sea (1870), Around the World in Eighty Days
(1873), The Mysterious Island (1875), and Michael Strogoff (1876).
Extremely popular, he wrote more than 50 books by the time he died.
Plays and motion pictures have been made from many of his works,
which are still widely read, particularly by the young. In 1989 the
manu* of Verne's long-lost 1863 novel Paris in the 20th
Century was discovered; the pessimistic and prophetic futurist work
was published in 1994.

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目　　录

CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14

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Spotlight Reviews
1.Very Good Even If No Balloon Rides, July 9, 2004
Reviewer: Brian P. McDonnell (Holbrook, MA USA)

The story is about an eccentric Englishman named Phileas Fogg whomakes a twenty thousand pound bet with five of his rich countryclub friends to travel around the world in eighty days with histrusty servant Passepartout a Frenchman. Along the way they have toovercome many obstacles. Fogg spends most of his fortune overcomingthese obstacles and if they don't win the bet he will be ruined.There are some things however that even money can't overcome andseveral times Fogg is faced with a moral decision that if hepursues the right thing to do will significantly set him back ontime.

Spotlight Reviews 
1.Very Good Even If No Balloon Rides, July 9, 2004 
Reviewer: Brian P. McDonnell (Holbrook, MA USA) 
 
The story is about an eccentric Englishman named Phileas Fogg who
makes a twenty thousand pound bet with five of his rich country
club friends to travel around the world in eighty days with his
trusty servant Passepartout a Frenchman. Along the way they have to
overcome many obstacles. Fogg spends most of his fortune overcoming
these obstacles and if they don't win the bet he will be ruined.
There are some things however that even money can't overcome and
several times Fogg is faced with a moral decision that if he
pursues the right thing to do will significantly set him back on
time. 
Their travels take them through England, Paris, the Suez Canal,
Egypt, India, Hong Kong, Japan, America, and Ireland. In India they
rescue a princess who stays on with them throughout the rest of
their journey and a love interest grows between her and Fogg. There
is also another subplot involving a bank robbery in England where
55 thousand pounds have been stolen, and Fogg is considered to be
the main suspect. A detective Fix is assigned to follow Fogg and to
arrest him once he sets foot on English territory. 
 
This book seems to be split into two parts. During the first part
of the book when things are going smoothly the servant Passepartout
seems to be the main character. At each port Fogg stays in his
cabin and just focuses on the next leg of the trip while
Passepartout ventures out and gives you a de*ion of the land.
It would seem a shame to travel all around the world and not pause
to take in any of the sights as Fogg does. I found most of these
early chapters pretty mundane and uneventful. 
 
The subplot with Fix at times becomes annoying, and it isn't until
they are all working towards the same goal, that this line of the
story improves. I also found the exchange rate between dollars and
pounds confusing at times. The pound must have been about four or
five times greater than the dollar at the time this story was
written. Fogg leaves England with around twenty thousand pounds and
spends it seems over a hundred thousand dollars on the trip. 
 
Later on as the story progresses and things start to go wrong the
focus changes over to Fogg. Passepartout still does some heroic
things, but Fogg takes charge and shows some redeeming qualities.
The pace of the story quickens and becomes more enjoyable with a
few skirmishes taking place in India and America. Fogg seems a
different person upon returning to England, and his life is changed
forever. 
 
My wife has a framed poster that hangs on one of our walls with a
collage of all of the movies that have won the best picture of the
year award. "Around The World In Eighty Days" won the award in
1956, and the picture is represented in the collage with the main
character Phileas Fogg and his trusty servant Passepartout taking a
balloon flight. Based on this picture for years I always assumed
the book was about a trip in a balloon around the world. I was
surprised then to find out once I finally got a chance to read the
actual book that they travel by boat, train, car, sled, and even
elephant, but that they never travel by balloon. It turns out that
the most memorable scene from the movie was made up by the director
and added on to the story. The director seemed to have come to same
conclusion that I did, that the written story itself was very good,
but I was expecting something a little more. 
 
The book was written in 1873. Jules Verne the author is a
Frenchman. In this day and age it was pleasing to see both England
and America looked upon in such a favorable light. Englishmen were
portrayed as noble and Americans were portrayed as wild and
adventurous. 
 
2.Enjoyable but not enthralling, December 5, 2001 
Reviewer: Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina
USA) 
 
For some reason, I always envisioned a hot air balloon when I
thought of Around the World in Eighty Days; in point of fact, a hot
air balloon is about the only means of transportation not employed
by Phileas Fogg in his circumnavigational sojourn (though it is
given a fleeting thought by the hero at one point). Fogg is an
interesting character, a man who takes punctuality to an unheard of
degree. Basically, his whist partners at the Reform Club tell him
there is no way to go around the globe in just 80 days,
notwithstanding the fact that a detailed itinerary involving
specific boats and trains promises to make it possible. Fogg
immediately bets half his fortune that he can do it, setting out on
his journey that very night. Passepartout, his newly hired
manservant, finds himself dragged along on this historic journey.
It so happens that someone matching a de*ion of Fogg has just
robbed the Bank of England of 55,000 pounds, and a detective named
Fix "discovers" his robber when Fogg arrives in Suez. He wires
England with the news and asks for an arrest warrant to be issued;
before it arrives, Fogg is off again. Fix finds himself joining in
on Fogg's epic journey, waiting for the warrant to reach him on his
way, then waiting to arrest Fogg when he steps back on English
soil. The travelers face many perils and stumbling blocks along
their way, many brought about by Passeportout's naivete and later
on by his selfless act of heroism. At every turn, Fogg finds
himself in need of alternate transportation methods; he employs,
among other vehicles, an elephant, a bridge-jumping train, and a
wind-propelled sled. A series of uncommon adventures unfold,
involving damsels in distress, Indian attacks, matters of honor,
etc. All these events come to a climax the day on which he is due
back at the Reform Club. 
There is not really much science in this fiction; instead, there is
a good bit of geography; the stretches of text explaining the route
from one place to another is rather boring to me personally.
Luckily, most of the book is full of action. Throughout, the
interesting Mr. Fogg remains as calm and placid as a cucumber while
Passepartout provides some comic relief by continually finding
himself in some sort of trouble. Most of the actors come across as
rather wooden and artificial, but the story is good and the ending
is quite satisfactory. The reading of this book led me to
conjecture that this was one of Verne's earlier works because the
characters here are rather drab compared to those in From the Earth
to the Moon and because the pages are not weighed down by
scientific terminology as in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea;
actually, it is one of his later novels. 
 
Around the World in Eighty Days would well serve the purpose of
introducing a Verne newbie to his writing. If you want to see
glimpses of Verne's prophetic scientific ideas, though, this is
probably not the book for you; it is best suited for recreational
reading.

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