AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS Paperback – 1 March 2015

Quite adventurous! And the story is based on so much factual information that it’s actually far more fun and entertaining than I expected.I read this book last week trying to catch up with my classics unread pile. And I am genuinely surprised with how much this book entertained me. I just cannot get enough of this book!I am in love with this @puffinbooksuk edition living true to my Puffin classic edition obsession ✨It’s the story of Phileas Fogg who wages his fortune for a challenge to travel the world in just eighty days! The story was set during the 1870s or before that when this book was written. We can imagine how the man could possibly carry out this challenge considering the limited means of transportation during that time.With his new valet, also a loyal to the core companion, Passepartout, he sets out to accomplish the set mission.The writing is engagingly good and filled with playful words that display wisdom, information based on actual facts, wit and sarcasm. The perfect combination that kept me wanting for more!Reading this book made me feel like I was in a video game world in which I had to do my best to accomplish the mission to save my life!The characters are well etched, my favourite being Passepartout. His monologues are the best!The highlights for this book would be the different places in different countries including India (the first place they visited) and I was quite surprised with how much knowledge that little part provided based on real events. One example would be the discussion on Sati (women had to jumped into the burning pyre of their dead husbands sacrificing their lives). More such information based at different places are mentioned as well.An amazing read. You will go on reading until you find out if they really accomplished their mission or not!Pick up this book if you don’t know what to pick up next or if you have been a victim of average reads recently.

I received the book the way it was described in the amazon app. It is very interesting. But there are no illustration pictures.

Nice book and quality pages

Around the World in 80 Days is like the ultimate travel fantasy brought to life! Phileas Fogg's bet to circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days will have you hooked from start to finish. Jules Verne's writing sweeps you away on a whirlwind journey, from steam trains to elephant rides, with a dash of suspense thrown in. Yeah, it's a bit old-school, but the excitement never gets old. Sure, there might be a few slow patches, but the thrill of the race keeps you turning those pages. If you're up for a wild ride, grab this classic and buckle up for adventure!

the book cover is soo pretty and ofcourse the credit of this beautiful story goes to the author

The book was packed piss poorly. The book seems new, but the print and all are mediocre at best. The illustrations look nice, and the print is large enough. It's okay, I wouldn't buy it again though.

It is a good read but not as good as the Jule's other works. If you haven't read the journey to the centre of the earth or 20000 leagues under the sea yet, I would recommend you to read them before cause they are a lot more interesting and fun to read.

"Truly, would you not for less than that make a tour around the world?"This is the second Verne book I have devoured in two days which have both been accredited four-five stars. I could end the review at that and I would be content!Similar to The Journey to the Centre of the Earth which I read yesterday - Verne creates amazingly awesome and complex characters. The main protagonist Mr. Fogg is an obsessive-compulsive routine loving timekeeper who bets his chums at the club that he can travel around the world in 80 days, which a newspaper said was possible - if no delays were incurred. He is so deep, that so much is beneath the surface of this quiet, content gentleman. Never fearing or worrying whatever dilemmas are thrown in his path and always willing to fail the mission to help his friends. He is also very good at handling a boat. I have to ask - does anyone know if he has been in any of Verne's previous stories as it seems like he has an amazing past. If he hasn't been present and that is just what is built up by the writing in this book I am speechless.His trusty French manservant is amazing too - Not for a long time have two characters been so three dimensional and have I truly cared about them so much in 200 or so pages. This dude is clever, he worries like he is always ruining the plan but he is very loyal, apt gymnast and sometimes a lifesaver.Other characters Fix (a stalking policeman) and Aouda (a rescued Indian damsel) are amazingly created colourful characters too.I don't want to say too much of the story but it takes places all over the world. London, China, India, Japan, HK, America, Liverpool amongst others. Full of amazing set pieces that whilst being gripping always bring a smile to your face. Traveling on an elephant to rescue a lady due to be burnt to the death, fighting bandits on railway lines in the US are just a couple of these many amazing incidents. I was expecting a scene with a hot air balloon which I see in all the film version advertisements which (spoiler) is not in the book.

Even when I know the story enjoyed so much english version.

Fast and interesting reading.Great Book for newcomers to improve english understanding and familiarity.Great writer and good writing style

Buena historia

Nel suo genere, il romanzo è un capolavoro puro. Le vicende in esso narrate richiamano alla mente virtù non dico non più valide ai giorni nostri, ma certamente un po’ desuete, obliate: quali lealtà, galanteria, senso dell’onore, il mantenere la parola data e, in quel vecchio mondo inglese dalle scommesse ‘spinte’, il dare maggior valore a una vita che al denaro messo in gioco.

Seneca, according to Borges, wrote that man has only time to read 120 books at most, although in those times a book comprised many volumes so it has to mean much more than our skinny books. I just finished the final volume of AmazonClassics edition in my reading list, and with this I have read 60 books of the collection, a skinny achievement but a nice one. 'Around the World in Eighty Days' is a calm example of the talent of Verne, it is notorious he is a professional writer as some structure is noticeable in his books, the research for scientific data, the plot twists paced regularly, a comic (but not ridiculous) relief, the exoticism of locations; among the living authors one writer that makes me feel that same professionalism is Dan Brown. Nevertheless to label Verne as just professional would be an injustice, is professional his meticulous work to point numbers, data and facts for the reader, I enjoyed much to search by images the places described; but along it there is emotion in these stories that will feed your heart if it still has a youthful passion for adventure, stories that are quite amazing and cover vast distances of time and space, is not wonder they are adapted into movies, sadly most of the time not that good movies xP Some circumstances in London spark a commentary by Phileas Fogg, squire, about how modernity has made the world smaller than before, he is a strange man, a good man but living in abstractions, so he is almost casually drawn to prove his words and engage in a journey around the world in eighty days. I devoured this trip, nothing is what it seems, he is a methodical man drawn into the unmethodical world. Is extraordinary that there is a villain but he is not a bad person but bound to duty, there is a friend but bound by loyalty, there is love but it is gradual and natural, there is disasters but he is calm, Phileas Fogg above all is not pushed by greed, and his adventures are not random, the chain of events that determine his journey are important in the events that follow, the reader is not cheated by deus ex machina but it truly feels like you are struggling along the characters in a game with coherent rules. He starts in the more exotic side of the world, and then he reaches the United States, I was afraid that the adventures would wane there into almost a bureaucratic register of trains and ships, but it was quite exotic too, as exciting as a road movie and more rich in imagination than I'd far prefer to visit Verne's U.S. than Peter Pan's Neverland. This is one of the most famous works of Verne so maybe you have seen adaptations that somehow spoil the ending, but nothing compares to read it.As a final reflection about the AmazonClassics books I can say they are, for works of public domain written in English, the best ones available: professional and exemplar formatting, modern typography, free of errors and free of introductions, studies and footnotes by nosy contemporary intellectuals with modern prejudices, instead, when you need it, there is the X-Ray function (the first paragraphs from the not that trusty Wikipedia that dislikes the past) to tell you what you need to know. They feel like having been written this morning for you, and that's good. The only strange detail is that they don't add the year of publication of the original edition. Nevertheless for foreign books most of them are good enough, with excellent translations from the public domain too, at first I was a bit afraid of outdated translations (which happens in Lysistrata and The Art of War) but for the most part I have grown fond of them. I don't know the original novel in French but so far the translation seems neutral. A very recommended edition and I am grateful to these AmazonClassics editions to take me into a journey of so many classical works in literature, science, philosophy and essays by many talented men and women in the history. I plan to get many of the books of this collection in good physical editions as a legacy for others after me (is a curious thought to wonder what happens with your Kindle books when your life ends), if you want to read this story in a good edition the AmazonClassics edition is a good choice.