Read this if you…
- are finishing the Verne top 3
- want verne without the science
- want a light fun short book
Skip this if you…
- want a serious read
- didn't like twenty thousand leagues under the sea
- aren't a nerd
The 
Take
Great capstone of his 3 greatest. Just so much real info packed into the narrative, and it’s just always moving. You know he’s gonna make it, but it’s still great. Very easy to get invested, doesn’t feel like work, not that deep, but still good
Depicted in Art
Decorative red cartonnage cover of the Hetzel first illustrated edition, with elephant and globe motifs framing the title 'Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours.'
1873
Procession of the late rajah's guards, lit by torches, escorting the body to the funeral pyre in the Indian forest.
Alphonse de Neuville, 1873
A pack of wolves crosses the snowy prairie at dusk as the wind-sled tracks past — 'and sometimes a pack of prairie wolves.'
Léon Benett, 1873
Passepartout calmly facing a moment of danger en route — captioned in the original edition as 'Passepartout not at all frightened.'
Léon Benett, 1873
The drugged young widow Aouda, in white robes, led unresisting by attendants toward her husband's funeral pyre — 'this unfortunate woman appeared to make no resistance.'
Alphonse de Neuville, 1873
World map tracing the eastward route of Fogg's circumnavigation: London – Suez – Bombay – Calcutta – Hong Kong – Yokohama – San Francisco – New York – London.
Passepartout clinging awkwardly to the back of an Indian elephant as Fogg and the Parsi guide ride toward Allahabad across the unfinished railway.
Léon Benett, 1873
Recommended Editions
Michael Glencross
Penguin Classics · 2004
Glencross restores passages that earlier English versions quietly dropped, and his pace matches Verne's. The introduction sets the novel against the railway-and-steamship globalization that made the premise plausible in 1872.
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Notable Quotes
I will bet twenty thousand pounds against anyone who wishes that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less; in nineteen hundred and twenty hours, or a hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred minutes.
Screen & Stage
Around the World in 80 Days
Film · 1956
Michael Anderson
Around the World in 80 Days
TV · 1989
John Gay
Around the World in 80 Days
TV · 2021
Caleb Ranson
Posters via The Movie Database (TMDB)
- Michael Palin, actor, Monty Python; travel documentarian, 1943–: Retraced Phileas Fogg's route for the 1989 BBC series — no flying, same 80-day limit — launching his travel-documentary career.
- Arthur C. Clarke, British science-fiction author, 1917–2008: "The reason Verne is still read by millions today is simply that he was one of the best storytellers who ever lived."
- Jean Cocteau, French poet, novelist & filmmaker, 1889–1963: "Play and book whetted our appetite for adventure in far lands, better than any atlas or map."
- Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist, 1828–1910: Loved the book enough to read it aloud in French to his children and draw his own illustrations of Fogg's journey.
- Margaret Atwood, Canadian novelist, b. 1939: "I'm in the Jules Verne family."
- Ray Bradbury, American science-fiction author, 1920–2012: "We are all, in one way or another, the children of Jules Verne."
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