Le Tour Du Monde En 80 Jours / L'archipel en feu

by Jules Verne

Genres: Classics, France

Hardcover

About the author

Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).

Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."

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Reviews

[Leftbanker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un des meilleurs romans jamais écrits et une joie de lire, à chaque fois. Peu de livres sont égaux à ce classique de pure imagination et d'émerveillement. Après toutes mes années d'études, j'ai finalement lu cela dans l'original. La première fois que j'ai lu Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours était quand j'avais 12 ans et c'était une édition pour les enfants. Maintenant tout ce que j'ai à faire est de faire ce voyage autour du monde moi-même.

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enfin un bon Jules Verne! On suit Phileas Fogg et Passepartout dans leur tour du monde et même si on connaît la fin, Jules Verne sait comment nous faire continuer à lire

[Charlène Fernette · Rating 1 out of 5]

Livre et auteur culte mais j'ai trouver que c'était assez rondondant.

[Coralie • spellboundchapters · Rating 2 out of 5]

Around the World in Eighty Days: 2 stars.
You know that feeling before having to catch a train/flight where you feel like you're gonna be too late and miss it? this book is basically 200+ pages of that. I was expecting adventure, but not only was the plot extremely boring and repetitive, the characters were very flat too. Also, what a waste to travel around the world but never actually seeing any of it. But maybe that's for the best, given how every country was apparently so bad compared to Great Britain, and every time there were POCs it was to say something racist about them (yes, it was written in the 19th century so I was kinda expecting it, but still). I doubt they would've even bothered rescuing Mrs. Adoua if she didn't "look and speak like a European".

The Archipelago on Fire: dnf.
Life is too short to read books this boring.

i seem to be on a 2 stars streak so if i don't read a book i love i'm gonna have to quit reading 😭

[alissa]

Someone said, "o, I read that. It's a bit dated." Hmmm... Anyway, it's historically interesting because it was written at a time when long-distance travel was just becoming possible and popular; although, from his rather...bland? general? descriptions of the places visited, it's probably that he wrote this from a map and an encyclopedia rather than his own experiences.

[G del Toro · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read both the French and English versions of Verne's adventurous work. The joy in reading and hopeful rereading of this book is how the book does indeed take you on a journey. It's rather cliche to say that of a book with a title hinting at travel, but the end result of Phineas Fogg's adventures fulfilled a part of my soul (I know, I know) that's eternally wistful.

[Arianne · Rating 3 out of 5]

L'histoire était géniale et accrochante, mais le style plus technique que littéraire m'a ennuyée. Les descriptions étaient sans ambiance.

[Lucía Rivera · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maravilloso