Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (Book Analysis) E-Book

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, the story of an English gentleman who makes a bet that he can travel the world’s circumference in eighty days and embarks on an adventure of cultural exploration, love and chase, all with the police hot on his trail. It is a pioneering work in the adventure novel genre and one of Verne’s most acclaimed works, having been adapted for the big and small screen many times. Verne is considered a major literary author in most of Europe, whose modernist culture he greatly influenced, and is currently the second most-translated author in the world.
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Jules Verne

French novelist

Born in Nantes in 1828Died near Paris in 1905Notable works:Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), novelAround the World in Eighty Days (1873), novelThe Mysterious Island (1874), novel

Born in Nantes in 1828, Jules Verne initially began studying law, then published a play and several short stories after 1852. He became friends with Jacques Argo (French author and explorer) and met explorers and scientists. His first novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), was incredibly successful. It was the beginning of the Voyages extraordinaires, which were composed of 18 short stories and 65 novels, including Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869), Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), The Mysterious Island (1874) and Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar (1876), among others. These works, which draw on a wealth of documents and combine adventure, anticipation and imagination, reflect the author’s interest in the technological advances of his time and his passion for travelling.

In 1886, the death of his editor and friend Jules Hetzel, and the decline of his interest in science, marked a turning point

in his career. He died in Amiens in 1905. Today, he is one of the most widely translated French language authors in the world.

Around the World in Eighty Days

A wager followed through

Genre: adventure novelReference edition: Vernes, J. (2012) Around the World in Eighty Days. Trans. Makepiece Towle, G. [Online]. Planet Publish. Available from: <http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/Around-the-World-in-80-Days.pdf>First edition: 1873Themes: travel, adventure, challenge, discovery, chase, danger

Published in 1873, the adventure novel Around the World in Eighty Days