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    A study guide for Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days"
    A study guide for Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days"
    A study guide for Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days"
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    A study guide for Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days"

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    A study guide for Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535826693
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      A study guide for Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days" - Gale

      09

      Around the World in Eighty Days

      Jules Verne

      1872-1873

      Introduction

      Titled Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours in the original French, Around the World in Eighty Days is perhaps the best known of Jules Verne's novels, especially through its film adaptations. Verne authored one of the first literary franchises, with his works marketed to maximum profit through the use of the new mass media, and Around the World in Eighty Days first appeared in serial form in the French newspaper (owned by Verne's book publisher) Le Temps (The Times). The first installment was published on December 22, 1872, which is also the dramatic date of the closing of the novel. This led to the misconception that the story was reporting actual events. In any case, journalists lost no time in replicating the voyage around the world as the basis of popular news stories and continued to do so through the twentieth century, most recently in Michael Palin's 1988 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) series, as the idea of such a journey became part of modern mythology.

      Around the World in Eighty Days is somewhat unusual among Verne's work, or at least among his works that are best known today. Verne helped to create the genre of science fiction, and many of his novels either concern a voyage of fantastic scientific discovery (Cinq semaines en ballon [Five Weeks in a Balloon], 1863; De la Terre à la Lune [From the Earth to the Moon], 1865) or imagine the ramifications of technology that did not yet exist but seemed likely to be developed in the near future (Vingt mille lieues sous les mers [Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea], 1869-70). Around the World in Eighty Days, however, deals only with exploiting existing technology, especially railways and steamships, to its limits. The novel celebrates the nineteenth-century idea of progress, the concept that life was being constantly improved by new technological advances. For the details of the plot, Verne drew on a series of newspaper articles and journalistic books touting that, according to the schedules of transportation companies, a voyage around the world in eighty days should be possible, so the book's premise is not fantastic as much as enthusiastic about what technology had already achieved.

      Author Biography

      Jules Gabriel Verne was born on February 8, 1828, in the city of Nantes, a prosperous port on the Atlantic coast of France. His father was a successful lawyer, and Verne received a classical education at Saint Donatien College (a Catholic boarding school). In 1847 Verne began to study law in Paris (completing his degree by 1849), but he also began to write for the theater, and it was this second career that increasingly interested him. In 1852 there was a definitive break with his family when Verne refused to take over his father's law firm in Nantes. Verne was eventually forced to work as a stockbroker to support himself and the new family he acquired in 1857 when he married Honorine de Viane, a widow with two children.

      In 1862 Verne began to work with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel. By 1864 Verne was writing novels full-time and had become an unprecedented literary success. His works, beginning with Cinq semaines en

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