Rank 75 of 100
Around the World in Eighty Days
Also known as Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
Synopsis
Phileas Fogg bets his fortune that timetables have made the planet small enough to circle in eighty days, and leaves London that night with a valet who did not expect the job to include a detective’s pursuit. Verne’s joke is that punctuality, not daring, is the modern superpower — until the clock plays a trick of its own.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1873
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Adventure
- Audience
- All ages
- Era
- 19th century
- Movement
- Scientific romance
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 252 pages
- Reported copies
- Among the most translated adventure novels
- Kind
- Fiction