Round the World in Eighty Days
1873
Round the World in Eighty Days
1873
Translated by Henry, 1840- Frith
A Victorian gentleman bets his entire fortune that he can circle the globe in eighty days. Phileas Fogg is a man of rigid schedules and impeccable precision, so predictable that the servants at his London club can set their watches by his daily walk. But when he wagers twenty thousand pounds on an impossible timetable, he unleashes something neither his companions nor his enemies anticipate: the unpredictable human heart. Joined by Passe-partout, a French valet with a talent for trouble and a name meaning "master of all keys," Fogg races across continents by train, steamship, and elephant. Each city brings new obstacles: a bank robbery suspect shadowing their journey, a princess in distress, the ever-ticking clock of their deadline. Verne constructs his adventure with the precision of his protagonist, yet infuses it with warmth, humor, and genuine wonder at a world shrinking under modernity's boot. The novel captures an era's boundless faith in what human ingenuity can accomplish, while quietly asking whether the best-laid plans matter more than the people we meet along the way.
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“Moreover, we must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on.””
— Jules Verne
“¡El mar es todo! Cubre las siete décimas partes del globo terrestre. Su aliento es puro y sano. Es el inmenso desierto en el que el hombre no está nunca solo, pues siente estremecerse la vida en torno suyo. El mar es el vehículo de una sobrenatural y prodigiosa existencia; es movimiento y amor; es el infinito viviente, como ha dicho uno de sus poetas.””
— Jules Verne
“El capitán Nemo me indicó con la mano ese prodigioso amontonamiento de madreperlas, una mina verdaderamente inagotable, pues la fuerza creadora de la naturaleza supera al instinto destructivo del hombre.””
— Jules Verne
“Los viajeros, encarcelados en un nuevo satélite, si bien es verdad que no habían alcanzado su objetivo, formaban al menos parte del mundo lunar; gravitaban alrededor del astro de la noche, y por primera vez podía la vista penetrar todos sus misterios.””
— Jules Verne
“But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!””
— Jules Verne
“que tous les enfants le sachent bien – avec de l’ordre, du zèle, du courage, il n’est pas de situations, si périlleuses soient-elles, dont on ne puisse se tirer.””
— Jules Verne
“especímenes de este género había clasificado la ciencia hasta entonces. Ni Cuvier, ni Lacepède, ni Dumeril ni Quatrefages hubieran admitido la existencia””
— Jules Verne
“La empresa había culminado felizmente, y en su primer despacho, la joven América dirigía a la vieja Europa estas sensatas palabras tan raramente comprendidas: «Gloria a Dios en los cielos y paz en la tierra a los hombres de buena voluntad».””
— Jules Verne
“No, Ned respondí-. No valía más. Nadie es superior a un hombre bueno y generoso, y usted lo es.””
— Jules Verne
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