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  Around the World in Eighty Days - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne, first published in 1872.
Later that day in the Reform Club, he gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph, stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days.
Around the World in 80 Narfs is a Pinky and the Brain episode where the Brain claims to be able to make the travel in less than 80 days and the Pompous Explorers club agrees to make him their new president.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World with Willy Fog was a cartoon version of Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne in the same vein as Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds.
"Around the World in Eighty Days" tells the story of the Victorian Englishman Phileas Fogg (David Niven), who bets his entire fortune with members of his club that he can travel around the world and be back in London in eighty days or less.
"Around the World in Eighty Days" is, most of all, a prime example of an all-show, no substance film with a completely inappropriate pace, and would have worked better had the film emphasized Fogg's necessity to meet the deadline rather than provided the audience with a travelogue.
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 Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne: A searchable online version at The Literature Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne is a novel about the adventures of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passerpartout.
One day while Phileas Fogg is with some friends, he reads in a newspaper that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days.
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 The Film Tribune - Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
"Around the World in Eighty Days" (1956) won the Academy Award for Best Picture, yet it now appears to be overlong and lacks a strong central performance.
To make up for the generally uninteresting central cast, the film includes forty-four cameos of celebrities of the time, who may mean very little to audiences of today, and who may furthermore appear as hampering the fluidity of the whole film, as too many cameos are likely to do.
Surprisingly enough, the film may never have seen the light of day due to constant funding problems, but became one of the biggest money-makers of its year, and also the crowning achievement of independent producer Michael Todd (better-known for his Todd-AO widescreen process, which was used for the film).
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 Around the World in Eighty Days
Fogg's friends at the Reform Club believe that he cannot possibly travel around the world in that limited amount of time, so they have made a wager with Fogg for twenty thousand pounds to see whether or not he can travel around the world in eighty days.
Fogg completes his journey around the world in the time allotted, Aouda is saved from being sacrificed and cared for by Fogg and Passepartout, and Fogg and Aouda are married at the end of the story.
At the time period the story took place, it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days.
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 Around The World In Eighty Days (Apple Classics) : Book
"Around the world in eighty days" is a great adventure novel to me. The stimulating plot of the story always makes me to pay full attention while I am reading.
This is the key reason that I think "Around the world in eighty days" is a great adventure novel.
In Around the world in Eighty days, it talks about Phileas Fogg made a wager that he can go around the world in eighty days.
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 DVD review of Around The World In Eighty Days (1956): Two-Disc Special Edition - DVD Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Around the World in Eighty Days may have its faults and lost some of its original allure, but it remains a sure-bet even today.
The movie is little more than a glorified travelogue, with a whole lot of beautiful and exotic settings (filmed largely on location around the world), a few totally random adventures, and the biggest cast of cameos ever assembled for a motion picture thrown together in a gargantuan three-hour block.
Incidentally, the film was known in the U.S. as "Around the World in 80 Days," the number expressed as an arabic numeral, not as a word, and it's the way the title is presented on all of WB's documentation.
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 Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
His daily habits were quite open to observation; but whatever he did was so exactly the same thing that he had always done before, that the wits of the curious were fairly puzzled.
It was likely, for no one seemed to know the world more familiarly; there was no spot so secluded that he did not appear to have an intimate acquaintance with it.
On this very 2nd of October he had dismissed James Forster, because that luckless youth had brought him shaving-water at eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit instead of eighty-six; and he was awaiting his successor, who was due at the house between eleven and half-past.
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 Around the World in Eighty Days   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Around the World in Eighty Days is a Ravensburger race game for two to six players, aged ten to adult.
The players travel around an attractive board, trying to be the first to return to London (having circumnavigated the globe).
In my most recent game though, while the rest of us were pinned approaching a series of 'go back' spaces, a player moved from last to first with an extended run of card play, arriving in London by utilising the bonus movement gained by using her last cards.
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 Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Around the World in Eighty Days is a 1956 movie based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne, involving a dare proposed to English aristocrat Phileas Fogg by his gentlemen's club to undertake a bold journey to travel around the world in only 80 days.
It is a big budget Hollywood movie, shot in producer Michael Todd's pioneering 70mm Todd-AO system to provide the highest-available picture resolution and sweeping widescreen vistas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_(1956_movie)   (422 words)

  
 WannaLearn: Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days (The Whole Story Series)
We should all be so lucky as to travel the world, and no less, in 80 days but to do it in the past with much difficulty is something else.
Jules Verne's "Around the world in 80 days" is a well-written novel detailing the adventures one man faces as he races the clock to journey around the world.
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 Jules Verne: Book: Around the World in Eighty Days / Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours - ANash
Phileas Fogg accepts a wager that he can't travel around the world in eighty days, but it looks like trouble when Fix trails him, believing him to be a suspected gentleman thief.
Numerous people have gone around the world faster than Phileas Fogg, and there are always records being broken.
OUP is to publish a special edition of Jules Verne's Around the world in 80 days, fronted by plasticine heroes Wallace Gromit.
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 Around the World in Eighty Days book report Free Essays
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne is a novel that takes place in the late nineteenth century.
The title summarizes the plot because one day Phileas Fogg is with some friends and he reads in a newspaper that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days.
The protagonist in Around the World in Eighty Days is Phileas Fogg.
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 USATODAY.com - Excerpt from 'Around the World in Eighty Days'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Excerpt from Verne's 'Around the World in 80 Days'
He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment.
Excerpted from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Translated by George M. Towle Copyright © 2003 by Jules Verne Translated by George M. Towle.
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 Around The World In Eighty Days   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
On the very day the Bank Of England is mysteriously robbed of £55,000, PHILEAS FOGG wages his entire fortune to prove, against all odds, that he can encircle the globe in eighty days.
A story so vast it encompasses the entire world and all the people in it, is told with ingenuity, imagination - and just ten actors, as the men of the Reform Club continually transform themselves to become the rest of the world.
The classic tale is given a modern edge as the physical journey becomes the backdrop to the more important spiritual journey of a man who learns that he is capable of love.
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 Around the World In Eighty Days Encyclopedia @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The book may have been inspired by the exploits of George Francis Train, who accomplished the feat in 1870.
The source of his wealth is not known and he lives modestly.
Because Fogg matches the description of the bank robber, Fix mistakes Fogg to be the criminal.
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 Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
On the day of the robbery a well-dressed gentleman of polished manners, and with a well-to-do air, had been observed going to and fro in the paying room where the crime was committed.
This was a gain to Phileas Fogg of two days since his departure from London, and he calmly entered the fact in the itinerary, in the column of gains.
During the first days of the journey Aouda became better acquainted with her protector, and constantly gave evidence of her deep gratitude for what he had done.
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 Amazon.com: Around The World In Eighty Days (Apple Classics): Books: Jules Verne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
"Around The World In Eighty Days" won the award in 1956, and the picture is represented in the collage with the main character Phileas Fogg and his trusty servant Passepartout taking a balloon flight.
In this day and age it was pleasing to see both England and America looked upon in such a favorable light.
Around the World in Eighty Days would well serve the purpose of introducing a Verne newbie to his writing.
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 Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne - Penguin UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne - Penguin UK home
In Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days—and he is determined not to lose.
Combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time, Around the World in Eighty Days gripped audiences upon its publication and remains hugely popular to this day.
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 Around the World in Eighty Days - Chapter XXXVII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Around the World in Eighty Days - Chapter XXXVII
Phileas Fogg had, without suspecting it, gained one day on his journey, and this merely because he had travelled constantly eastward; he would, on the contrary, have lost a day had he gone in the opposite direction, that is, westward.
The next day, as soon as it was light, Passepartout rapped vigorously at his master's door.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Around the World in Eighty Days (Penguin Popular Classics): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Strangely the weakest sections seem to be the actual travelogue descriptions of foreign lands, which tend to be rather dry and uninvolving, and the hero Phileas Fogg manages to solve most of the problems that come his way simply by throwing vast amounts of money at them.
The characters are in a race against time to travel around the world in 80 days.
The book is centred around a £20,000 bet which takes place between the quintessential Englishman, Philleas Fogg, and his friends at the reform club.
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 Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne - Penguin Classics
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne - Penguin Classics
One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days -- and he is determined not to lose.
Around the World in 80 Days gripped audiences on its publication and remains hugely popular, combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time.
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 Random House Trade | Around the World in Eighty Days by Bruce Sterling
Around the World in Eighty Days is considered one of the most popular adventure novels of all time.
For Verne, the world is shrinking; exploration has given way to tourism and imperialism.
In many ways, Fogg’s travels are more than just a race around the world but a quest, one in which the hero returns somehow transformed.
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 Around the World in 80 Days
In this raucous Disney adaptation of Jules Verne's classic adventure novel AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, Steve Coogan plays Phileas Fogg, a quirky inventor at the turn of the 20th century.
"Around the World in 80 Days is modestly diverting summer fare, but at about the halfway mark you're going to start wondering, 'Are we there yet?'"
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Till this day, even in college, his system allows him to study half as much as his peers, score far better all while saving time for all the great times in college.
Then, one day, he tells Anik that he is struggling to even get a C in Pre-Calculus and all his other classes.
One day, Anik sat down with her to talk about exams, the different kinds of exams and the different kinds of classes.
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