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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
