Michelle's review of Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days (Penguin Classics) by Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg is a reserved English gentlemen. He never deviates from his schedule, never gets angry, never raises his voice. At his club he and his friends discuss the possibility of being able to travel around the world in 80 days. Fogg says it can be done and makes a bet that he can indeed do it. So off he goes with his new servant (the previous servant was let go for being a minute late in his master's schedule.) His new servant Passpourtu is at first dumfounded. He too likes the well ordered life and schedule of Phileas Fogg, but then he becomed excited about the bet and the race. As he and his master encounter one delay after another he exhibits all of the emotion his master lacks. Indeed the two travel through India-saving a woman from being burned alive, China, America-where they are attacked by Indians, and back to England where Fogg is wrongly arrested as a bank robber. A lot of fun. But right at the end, Verne pulls back from the excitement to go into some dreary detail- skip...more
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