Literary London larks
Against all odds, I have just had the great fortune to return from a little real life globetrotting of my own. I’ve spent a whirlwind two weeks in the territory of none other than Mr Phileas Fogg and took some time to tread …
What Phileas Fogg is not
Most novelists create their characters by telling us what they are. Jules Verne, on the other hand, goes to great lengths to tell us what his protagonist Mr Phileas Fogg Esq. is not. “Though he was undoubtedly English, Phileas Fogg …
What we think of… Around the World in Eighty Days
Vital stats… Author: Jules Verne Publisher: Penguin Books Format: Paperback RRP: AUD $9.95 My rating What it’s about… England, 1872. Mankind was making leaps and bounds in science and exploration, laying the groundwork for the technological wonders of the 20th century. Medical advances led …
Haiku Review – Around the World in Eighty Days
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From page to stage… or screen
When adapting a novel for film, many filmmakers (nobly) feel obliged to retain some modicum of loyalty to the original text. Not so, the makers of the 1956 adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic Around the World in Eighty Days, or its 2004 Disney …
Meet Jules Verne
As the author of Around the World in Eighty Days, French novelist Jules Verne is the inspiration for our own world tour. So here are 5 things you should know about the great man himself. These facts will either change …