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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As a boy, I found “Around the World in Eighty Days” a thrilling story.
From Washington Post
With particular relevance, though, “Around the World in Eighty Days” depicts a Christmas miracle worthy of the Hallmark Channel — the conversion of a friendless, stiffly precise Victorian gentleman into a human being capable of love and joy.
From Washington Post
Butcher persuasively demonstrates that there’s more in the book than a mixture of farce, manhunt, suspense and romance, though it is doubtless these that have made “Around the World in Eighty Days” the most popular novel by one of the most popular novelists of all time.
From Washington Post
The other “Golden Picture Classic” I received, Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days,” has always struck me as surprisingly appropriate to the yuletide season, capturing something of its gaiety and high spirits, as well as the desperation of the last-minute shopper’s race against time as Dec. 25 approaches.
From Washington Post
“Only by the 19th century was it a safer kind of journey, and this was when it became a popular pastime, as in Jules Verne’s ‘Around the World in Eighty Days,‘” Chaplin said.
From Seattle Times
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