Around The World In Eighty Days, Jules Verne
Around The World In Eighty Days, Jules Verne
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Around The World In Eighty Days

Author: Jules Verne

Narrator: AI Voice Charles Owen

Unabridged: 7 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/13/2026


Synopsis

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Jules Verne (1828–1905) transformed the literary landscape of the nineteenth century, pioneering a new form of fiction that merged rigorous scientific inquiry with breathtaking adventure. His novels—Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days—established him as the founding father of science fiction and redefined what popular literature could achieve. Verne's genius lay in his ability to ground fantastical voyages in meticulous research and technical plausibility, creating narratives that educated even as they entertained. His vivid prose and prophetic imagination have captivated readers for more than a century, inspiring generations of writers, explorers, and scientists.

Around the World in Eighty Days, published in 1873, captures Verne at the height of his narrative powers. Set during an era when steamships and railways were shrinking the globe at unprecedented speed, the novel transforms a simple wager into an exhilarating race against time. The story follows Phileas Fogg, an enigmatic English gentleman of clockwork precision, who stakes his entire fortune on an audacious claim: he can circumnavigate the earth in just eighty days. Accompanied by his resourceful French valet, Passepartout, Fogg embarks on a journey that tests not only the limits of modern transportation but the strength of human determination.

Whether returning to a beloved classic or discovering Verne for the first time, readers will find themselves swept into a world where every minute matters and the impossible becomes achievable through sheer force of will. This is adventure literature at its finest: meticulously plotted, richly observed, and utterly irresistible.

About Jules Verne

French author Jules Verne was born in the port of Nantes in 1828. He later moved to Paris to study law. At age twenty-eight, he married Honorine de Viane, a young widow with two children. Verne published several plays under the tutelage of Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas. He made his living as a stockbroker until his first successful series, Voyages Extraordinaire, was published in 1863. Soon Verne's novels became enormously popular around the world. Without a scientific background or experiences as a traveler, Verne spent much of his time doing research for his books. However, when the logic of the story contradicted scientific knowledge, Verne took poetic license with science to serve his fast-paced adventures.

Verne's stories caught the spirit of the nineteenth century and its uncritical enthusiasm about scientific progress and invention. His works were often written in the form of a travel book taking the readers on fantastic voyages. Many of Verne's ideas have been hailed as prophetic, predicting some of the inventions that have changed our world, including the airplane, the submarine, and spacecraft. He published sixty-five novels, some twenty short stories and essays, thirty plays, an opera libretto and two geographical works.

In the first part of his career Verne expressed optimism about progress and Europe's central role in the social and technical development of the world. In Verne's later novels, the author's pessimism is reflected in the doom-laden fin-de-siècle atmosphere. In contrast to the adventurous spirit of his novels, Verne's personal life was relatively uneventful, with the exception of his surviving a murder attempt by his insane nephew. Verne died of natural causes in Amiens on March 24, 1905.


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