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Extraordinary Voyages: Around The World In Eighty Days, Journey To The Center Of The Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Seas (Library Of Wonder) (1901)

by Jules Verne(Favorite Author)

4.18 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1435115554 (ISBN13: 9781435115552)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Fall River Press

review 1: This is a fun story. You can see how it inspired several genre’s of adventure and travel stories. Verne has an odd writing style. It seems he doesn’t want to intrude to much on his character’s lives. It reads almost like a detached observer. You could argue about who is the main character, Fogg or Passpatout. It brought back memories. Chapter 3 begins: Phileas Fogg had left his house in Saville Row at Half-past eleven, and after having put his right foot before his left foot five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right foot five hundred and seventy-six times, he arrived at the Reform Club, a spacious and lofty building in Pall Mall, which cost not less than three millions to build. I can remember hearing that as a kid and being in awe. I ... morethought that man was so reliable, predictable and powerful. Completely in control of his own life and environment. As an adult I think, this is not a life but a prison!They had added a nice appendix about travel and how it has changed since Verne wrote. Turns out a New York paper sent a reporter to follow Fogg's route in 1889 and the journey was completed in 72 days.
review 2: I didn't actually read all 3 of these books, but did read Journey to the Center of the Earth and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with my young daughters. I was unimpressed, as has been my experience in the past with Classics Illustrated books. There are many typos, sentences that do not make sense, and the simplified text takes from the writing that sets them apart as classics. Have your children wait to read these until they can comprehend the original text. less

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