Around the World in Eighty Days

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.’Phileas Fogg was one of those mathematically exact people, who, never hurried and always ready, are economical of their steps and their motions. He never made one stride too many, always going by the shortest route. He did not give an idle look. He did not allow himself a superfluous gesture.’When Phileas Fogg wagers a bet that he can travel across the globe in just 80 days, little does he know about the epic journey that he is about to undertake. With his faithful French servant, Passepartout, Phileas Fogg embarks on the adventure of a lifetime, travelling across four continents by whatever means he can – train, elephant, steam ship – and experiencing endless surprises and mishaps along the way.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Press; UK ed. edition (1 April 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0007350945
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0007350940
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 168 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.1 x 2 x 17.8 cm

Reviewer: 9Cows
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An incredible adventure from Jules Verne – as always!
Review: Jules Verne was born to tell stories. Reading him is like entering his imagination and living through it. ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea’, ‘Journey To The Center Of The Earth’, ‘From Earth To The Moon’ and many more are the examples of his incredible ability to imagine, spin stories around and explain scientifically the inventions of the future, way before they were reality if already conceived.This book is the journey of a mysterious man who takes upon himself an impossible task on a whimsical bet, just to prove himself. The character portrayed here is almost inhumanly calm, composed, confident, unperturbed in the face of the most messy predicaments, clinical and reserved, yet extremely respectful, loving, humane and compassionate. This is his adventure to cover the circumference of the world in 80 days. Mind you these are the times when we didn’t have flights and airports. He has to completely rely upon the technology of the era – sail and paddle boats and steamers through the choppy and un-mapped seas, hot air balloons, incomplete or non-functional railway lines and the back of the beasts in more exotic locations. The story throws enough seemingly impossible-to-tackle situations at the protagonist and he addresses them every single time with a most novel and un-imaginable solution. The story involves human, natural and technological challenges at every step, yet our determined hero goes on, and in the the middle of it all, finds time for love too.

Reviewer: Sidra b.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The publishers could have hired a better typist.
Review: Story- GOOD. Author- GREAT.But it just makes me uneasy finding a spell mistake right in the heading of the fourth chapter. Wanted to buy this book as a collectible but cant anymore. And cant replace it because i am sure i will be getting the same publishers book in return😓 i hope they haven’t made any more spell mistakes later in the book.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Awesome book
Review: It’s a very good and adventurous book but there are some negative things about India. Some spelling mistakes are there too but it is a wonderful and great book with a lot of adventures.

Reviewer: Shyam Kodavarthi
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Never felt it was fictional!
Review: Amazing book! I wonder how this book was ever written. Jules Verne has hardly travelled anywhere. No wonder this book is a classic.

Reviewer: Geethaanjali
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Super 👌
Review: Very interesting and there were a lot of descriptions. A very adventurous story. 👌

Reviewer: Iqbal Bahar
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A must read book to increase your children word power and literary diction
Review: A must read book

Reviewer: Peerzada Shujaht
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS.
Review: i have read this book all and noticed that it is not eligible for 13 years old children or below because it is veey difficult to read.

Reviewer: Jaideep
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Just ok nothing great !
Review: Too much negative views about India, could have avoided it. Out of millions of topics, writer choose to describe the worst social evil along with many logical inaccuracies.

Reviewer: Juliana
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Chegou dentro da data prevista e bem embalado.

Reviewer: Michael OToole
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: It was great to read this again. It is a classic that can stand the test of time! Definitely 5 stars! ..

Reviewer: Lindsay R. Bayne
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This is a classic read, prompted by the tv series recently and … no surprise in a way, as the introduction as always states ‘based on …’, but this was a very loose relationship indeed: the series lacked continuity except in the most liberal sense and depended [it seemed] overmuch on using the same characters and frame for the episodes, and the same for the film. Having said that, all three were enjoyable in their different ways – just the book stands up better for me.

Reviewer: ELENA BARRALES
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Bonito y ameno

Reviewer: Amazon カスタマー
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 早く届いてよかった。まだ読んでないけど楽しみにしている。。。

4.5

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