Author: | Icon Group |
Subcategory: | Words Language & Grammar |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | ICON Group International, Inc. (September 18, 2008) |
Pages: | 266 pages |
Category: | Reference |
Rating: | 4.6 |
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The prose used, however, is often quite formal; some of which might be unclear to a modern-day French speaker, but a great resource nevertheless.
The prose used, however, is often quite formal; some of which might be unclear to a modern-day French speaker, but a great resource nevertheless.
The story details his attempt to go around the world in 80 days. The honest and ever-comical French valet of Mr. Fogg; he is loyal yet inadvertently burdensome traveling companion. He is a mysteriously wealthy Englishmen with a knack for gambling, and is generally seen as a confident, inspiring sort of man. His willingness to attempt the feat of going around the world in 80 days shows that he is a risk-taking sort of man with boundless confidence. He is a brave, warm, man, yet seems to often throw a wrench in Fogg's attempt to travel round the world in 80 days.
As the 2004 film adaptation of Around the World in Eighty Days opens . The story centers around an eccentric English gentleman and his French servant, Passepartout.
As the 2004 film adaptation of Around the World in Eighty Days opens, two significant events happen. First, we see a Chinese man named Passepartout. This great book of adventure is about a man named Phileas Fogg, who takes a wager to go around the world in no more then 80 days. He risks his entire fortune on this bet So he and his French valet Jean Passepartout make a tremendous journey Around The World In Eighty Days. Submitted by Phileas Fogg.
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (£2,242,900 in 2019) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on Wednesday, 2 October 1872.
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With his excitable French manservant in tow, Fogg undertakes the exercise immediately, with no preparations, trusting that his traveling funds will make up for delays along the way. But unbeknownst to him, British police are desperately seeking to arrest him for the theft of a huge su. . But unbeknownst to him, British police are desperately seeking to arrest him for the theft of a huge sum by someone who resembles him, and they will track him around the world, if necessary, to apprehend him. This is an adventure novel of the first water, with wholly unexpected perils, hair-breadth escapes, brilliant solutions to insoluble problems, and even a love story.
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