Around the World in 80 Days

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David Tennant starred as Phileas Fogg in a 2021 television adaptation, Around the World in 80 Days. [31] An undertaking such as this risks seeming random, as frantically improvised as Fogg’s itinerary when he misses an onward connection. Damrosch avoids diffuseness by seizing on spatial coincidences. In Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow presents East Africa as a warped replica of Manhattan: the voice of the tribal potentate Dahfu resembles the hum from the electricity substation on 16th Street, and his shamanistic antics recall the expensive mumbo-jumbo of the city’s psychotherapists. Epigrams and puns build instant bridges between epochs and idioms. The 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō bumps into Andy Warhol when a haiku praising him is recited during an episode of The Simpsons; the tribute, Damrosch says, confers on Bashō “an aptly ephemeral immortality: 15 pixels of fame”. A character in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake asks, “Are we speachin d’anglas landage or are you sprakin sea Djoytsch?”, which goads Damrosch to some wordplay of his own. Ireland, he says, is “a land that is at sea”, its insularity dissolved by Joyce’s oceanic Esperanto. But that's not all, folks! The Indian Princess gets saved by the Bully Englishman! Aw www... I've almost got a picture in my head of Tarzan swinging Jane through the jungle. :)

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Mark Brown adapted the book for a five-actor stage production in 2001. It has been performed in New York, Canada, England, South Africa, and Bangladesh. [24] anytime i read a classic just because people say it's a must-read, i call it "assigning myself homework"I absolutely loved this! And now I'm wondering, How have I never read this or any of Jules Verne work, for that matter? It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honored by a better acquaintance with him than the rest, declared that nobody could pretend to have ever seen him anywhere else. His sole pastimes were reading the papers and playing whist. He often won at this game, which, as a silent one, harmonized with his nature; but his winnings never went into his purse, being reserved as a fund for his charities. Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing. The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes. Around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne was a really good classic novel an the story was filled with adventure, adrenaline and suspense.

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Phileas Fogg is an upstanding English gentleman who spends his days playing whist, a card game, with his friends at the Reform Club, and spends his nights alone in his large upscale townhome on Saville Row in London. Fogg has no wife and no children and mostly keeps to himself. An air of mystery surrounds Fogg wherever he goes because of his extreme reticence. He keeps his thoughts and his heart well hidden.As for Passepartout, he was a true Parisian of Paris. Since he had abandoned his own country for England, taking service as a valet, he had in vain searched for a master after his own heart. Passepartout was by no means one of those pert dunces depicted by Molière, with a bold gaze and a nose held high in the air; he was an honest fellow, with a pleasant face, lips a trifle protruding, soft-mannered and serviceable, with a good round head, such as one likes to see on the shoulders of a friend. His eyes were blue, his complexion rubicund, his figure almost portly and well built, his body muscular, and his physical powers fully developed by the exercises of his younger days. His brown hair was somewhat tumbled; for while the ancient sculptors are said to have known eighteen methods of arranging Minerva’s tresses, Passepartout was familiar with but one of dressing his own: three strokes of a large-tooth comb completed his toilet. 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!

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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.

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The group continues toward Hong Kong by way of Singapore, dodging obstacles but still making good time along the way. Fix finally reveals himself to Passepartout and his belief that Fogg is a criminal, hoping to enlist Passepartout’s help in delaying Fogg until the arrest warrant arrives. Passepartout is appalled and, in a show of loyalty to his master, refuses to be complicit with Fix. Later, however, Passepartout relents, realizing Fix can help them get to London faster, which would help ensure that Fogg wins the bet. The group continues on toward Japan, where Passepartout gets caught up for a day with a troupe of clowns, and then across the Pacific, landing in San Francisco. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity!