Around the World in Eighty Days
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The novel was adapted for a popular Academy Award-winning film in 1956.
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In Correlation, he uses the journey of Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days as the framework to arrange the piece.
From Time ● Jun. 8, 2016
From the flat Earth of Around the World in Eighty Days to the many Londons of A Christmas Carol, DeGraff brings these works to life in fascinating and surprising ways.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2015
In the novel Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg employed all manner of transport--steamers, railways, yachts, carriages, trading vessels, sledges and even elephants.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was said to have been the model for Phileas Fogg, the globe-trotter in Around the World in Eighty Days.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
She has read Around the World in Eighty Days until the Braille is soft and fraying; for this year’s birthday, her father has bought her an even fatter book: Dumas’s The Three Musketeers.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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