Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was one of the oldest published Book I have ever read. Literature changes in every decade. This book was written as early as 1873 , around 150 years earlier. I thought that the style of writing will be different and may be at some point of time I may face difficulties with the pace of the story or with the plot. After all the world back in 1873 was very different than what we have it today. As I progressed I only proved myself wrong. The book keeps up with the pace excellently and excite the readers on what is next to come.

The writer have done an wonderful job in bring the picture of the world in the late 19th century. For history lover like me , this was a gem. One will be travelling back in time to experience the day to day life, the machinery people used, the way the people traveled the way they see the world and this was the main attraction of the book .

I am not sure if Jules Verne had ever traveled the world but for sure he had the knowledge of Various places. The story have a detail picture of travelling in two vast countries , India and America accompanied by various other countries. As i am an Indian , I can tell that one cannot describe India the way the writer have done without visiting it. of course some of the names of the places were pronounced differently , and it was expected as we know how the British did that.

Not just for fun , the book also teaches us many thing . we can learn from the protagonist(Phileas Fogg) how to be calm in whatever situation we are in , he also teaches us determination. Passepartout teaches us how to be faithful and also Fix teaches us not to give up.

One can really enjoy reading the book . The only problem i had was that sometimes there was a little to much details on the travelling. I enjoyed it when they were in India but it annoyed me a little when it was for America. As I don't have much knowledge on the geography of the country.

I Rate this book 4.5 *


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