80 Günde Devr-i Alem
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“Around the World in 80 days” by Jules Verne
02/01/2010 21:58:12
"Around the World in 80 days' by Jules Verne
Penguin Classics
There is a man whose name is Fogg. He has five friends and a servant. He isn't an interesting one, his life is too monotonous. Everyday he does the same things at the same time. He goes to the same club and play card with his friends.
One day while they are playing cards in the club, one of his friends tells about an event about a robber who steals a lot of money from a bank and runs away. They think the robber will be arrested because the world is too small. Fogg agrees with this idea and he says that he can go around the world in 80 days. But his friends think it is impossible so they bet with him.
Then he starts his journey with his servant. He experiences lots of interesting things during his journey. He helps other people whenever they are in need of. But in the train station a detective ,Fix, sees them and he suspects they have stolen the money from the bank. So he starts to follow them and even once tries to speak his servant to get some information about Fogg. But the servant trusts Fogg and so he doesn't believe Fix when he says Fogg is a robber. During his journey Fix tries to obstruct Fogg all the time since he wants to send him to the prison. But Fogg never gives up and in spite of all the difficulties he succeeds to go around the world in 80 days after proving he is not a robber.
About the author:
Jules Verne, born at Nantes, France, in 1828, of legal and seafaring stock, was the author of innumerable adventure stories that combined a vivid imagination with a gift for popularizing science. Although he studied law at Paris, he devoted his life entirely to writing. His most popular stories, besides 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870), include: Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), A Trip to the Moon (1865), Around the World in Eighty Days (1872), and Michael Strogoff (1876). In addition, he was the author of a number of successful plays, as well as a popular history of exploration from Phoenician times to the mid-nineteenth century, The Discovery of the Earth (1878-80). After a long and active career in literature, Jules Verne died at Amiens, France, in 1905.
80 Günde Devr-i Alem - “Around the World in 80 days” by Jules Verne
"Around the World in 80 days' by Jules Verne
Penguin Classics
There is a man whose name is Fogg. He has five friends and a servant. He isn't an interesting one, his life is too monotonous. Everyday he does the same things at the same time. He goes to the same club and play card with his friends.
One day while they are playing cards in the club, one of his friends tells about an event about a robber who steals a lot of money from a bank and runs away. They think the robber will be arrested because the world is too small. Fogg agrees with this idea and he says that he can go around the world in 80 days. But his friends think it is impossible so they bet with him.
Then he starts his journey with his servant. He experiences lots of interesting things during his journey. He helps other people whenever they are in need of. But in the train station a detective ,Fix, sees them and he suspects they have stolen the money from the bank. So he starts to follow them and even once tries to speak his servant to get some information about Fogg. But the servant trusts Fogg and so he doesn't believe Fix when he says Fogg is a robber. During his journey Fix tries to obstruct Fogg all the time since he wants to send him to the prison. But Fogg never gives up and in spite of all the difficulties he succeeds to go around the world in 80 days after proving he is not a robber.
About the author:
Jules Verne, born at Nantes, France, in 1828, of legal and seafaring stock, was the author of innumerable adventure stories that combined a vivid imagination with a gift for popularizing science. Although he studied law at Paris, he devoted his life entirely to writing. His most popular stories, besides 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870), include: Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), A Trip to the Moon (1865), Around the World in Eighty Days (1872), and Michael Strogoff (1876). In addition, he was the author of a number of successful plays, as well as a popular history of exploration from Phoenician times to the mid-nineteenth century, The Discovery of the Earth (1878-80). After a long and active career in literature, Jules Verne died at Amiens, France, in 1905.