Around the World in Eighty Days (Oxford World's Classics)

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Where a Tale Is Told of Diverse Incidents That Could Happen Only on the Railroads of the Union Jules Verne Flom, Eric (22 May 2002). "Sayre, James Willis (1877-1963)". History Link . Retrieved 3 March 2022. Around the World in 80 Days-Mini Series" ". IMDb. Archived from the original on 26 November 2021 . Retrieved 26 November 2021. Another musical version, 80 Days, with songs by Ray Davies of the Kinks and a book by playwright Snoo Wilson, directed by Des McAnuff, ran at the Mandell Weiss Theatre in San Diego from 23 August to 9 October 1988, receiving mixed responses from the critics. Davies's multi-faceted music, McAnuff's directing, and the acting were well received, with the show winning the "Best Musical" award from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. [26]

In 2017, Mark Beaumont, a British cyclist inspired by Verne, set out to cycle across the world in 80 days. He completed the trip in 78 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes, after departing from Paris on 2 July 2017. Beaumont beat the previous world record of 123 days, set by Andrew Nicholson, by cycling 29,000km (18,000mi) across the globe visiting Russia, Mongolia, China, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US and a number of countries in Europe. [18] ln 1923, a silent serial based on the book was released. Titled Around the World in 18 days, the serial told the story of Fogg's descendant, Phileas Fogg III, and his attempt to recreate his grandfather's journey. Flightfox created a trip, "Around the World in 80 Hours", to see if flight experts could find cheap flights following the same path as described in the book. [39] The online travel company then wrote a fictional eBook based on the results of the contest. [40] Jules Verne – Around the World in Eighty Days, a 4-part drama adaptation in 2010 by Terry James and directed by Janet Whittaker for BBC Radio 7 (now BBC Radio 4 Extra), starred Leslie Phillips as Phileas Fogg, Yves Aubert as Passepartout and Jim Broadbent as Sergeant Fix. [30] [31] Careri, Giovanni Francesco Gemelli; Noble, Eustache Le (1719). Voyage du Tour du Monde (1719, Paris). Archived from the original on 22 April 2017 . Retrieved 21 October 2016.

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Fogg does not know what to do now that he has lost his wager, and he sits alone in his room for a long time. Aouda comes to speak to him, however, and reveals her love for him—Fogg says that he would like nothing more than to make her his wife. Overjoyed, they tell Passepartout to go make wedding arrangements for the following day, Monday, with the reverend. In 1956, Michael Anderson directed a film adaptation starring David Niven and Cantinflas. The film won five Oscars, including Academy Award for Best Picture With Passepartout in tow and Fix in hot pursuit, Fogg continues to make his way across the world. Soon, Fogg arrives in India, where he finds that modern advances in transportation haven’t evolved as much as he thought and he is forced to travel by elephant for part of the way. Fogg sees Hindu priests who are on the way to a human sacrifice and, with Passepartout’s help, is able to save an English woman, Aouda, from being killed. Aouda joins the men in their travels. Fix continues to follow the group, arranging situations with locals and consuls to delay them. When Passepartout commits a crime by wearing shoes in a Hindu pagoda, Fix arranges to have the Hindus bring him to court and have Fogg charged and punished on behalf of Passepartout. The plan fails because the wealthy Fogg is able to make bail for himself and Passepartout. In 2009, twelve celebrities performed a relay version of the journey for the BBC Children in Need charity appeal.

Mark Brown adapted the book for a five-actor stage production in 2001. It has been performed in New York, Canada, England, South Africa, and Bangladesh. [27] a b "Around the World in Eighty Days". Archived from the original on 26 January 2021 . Retrieved 29 January 2021. The idea of a trip around the world within a set period had clear external origins. It was popular before Verne published his book in 1873. Even the title Around the World in Eighty Days is not original. Several sources have been hypothesized as the origins of the story. [6] Harris-Fain, Darren (1997). "George Griffith". British Fantasy and Science-fiction Writers Before World War I. Dictionary of Literary Biography No. 178. Gale Research. p.106. ISBN 978-0-8103-9941-9.In 1963, a comedy film The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze starring The Three Stooges in the Passepartout role was released to exploit the popularity of the 1956 film and the Stooges resurgence in popularity that began in 1959. In 1889, Elizabeth Bisland working for the Cosmopolitan became a rival to Bly, racing her across the world to try and achieve the global crossing first. [12] They make it to San Francisco and get on a train that will take them to New York, but not before witnessing a political skirmish in which Fogg nearly ends up fighting an American man named Colonel Stamp Proctor. The train takes them through the great American wilderness, and they encounter a delay when they come upon a bridge that is too weak to hold the train's weight. They decide to speed the train over the bridge anyway, and it collapses right after they get over.