Jules Verne

Around the World in 80 Days Jules Verne

Book Description
Jules Verne's adventure story about a wager to circumvent the globe in 80 days was so popular when it was first published that it spawned several real-life copycats who tried to replicate the adventures of Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout. In this adaptation French writer Loïc Dauvillier teams with artist Aude Soleilhac. Soleilhac's vibrant and detailed work captures the numerous people and places encountered in Verne's epic tale, which still manages to elicit wonder and excitement in readers over 125 years after it was first published.

Reviews
" What a fun reading experience! It had me smiling much of the time. Enter the imperturbable, precise Phileas Fogg and the companions he acquires along the way and the adventure is non-stop from beginning to end. Can't wait to see the Movies. "

" Between it and 20k leagues it is the better book... It has this wondrous and naive kind of futurism to it ... His characters are anarchists or stiff upper lipped to the point of near zen mastery .. as in the case of phileas fogg. Verne throws a great deal at Fogg, and one cannot help love him for it "

About Author - Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the genre of science-fiction. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author of all time, behind Disney Productions and Agatha Christie. His prominent novels have been made into films. Verne, along with H. G. Wells, is often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction".