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
I had a copy of Around the World in Eighty Days.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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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