Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne, 1872
A rich Londoner bets his fortune that he can circle the globe in eighty days, and spends every hour of them proving a timetable can beat the world.
Jules Verne
1828–1905
Verne's books run on the pleasure of an impossible plan taken seriously: timetables, instruments, stubborn men, and a world that keeps refusing to cooperate. Start with Around the World in Eighty Days if you want the comedy and the clock, or Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea if you want the sea and the strange company of Captain Nemo.
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Verne wrote it while sailing and collecting steamer timetables; he crossed the Atlantic only once, and never went round the world himself.
What a storm looks like to the one person aboard not frightened of it.
Phileas Fogg, with body erect and legs wide apart, standing like a sailor, gazed without staggering at the swelling waters. The young woman, who was seated aft, was profoundly affected as she looked out upon the ocean, darkening now with the twilight, on which she had ventured in so frail a vessel. Above her head rustled the white sails, which seemed like great white wings. The boat, carried forward by the wind, seemed to be flying in the air. Books by Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne, 1864
A short-tempered professor, his reluctant nephew and a silent Icelandic guide climb into a volcano and keep going down.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Jules Verne, 1870
A naturalist is taken prisoner aboard Captain Nemo's submarine and shown the sea's strangest depths, creatures and ruins.
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