"Around the
World in Eighty
Days" written by a French writer Jules
Verne, and is one of the most popular book s of him. The main character
Fogg wagered his friends that he would
travel around the world within
80 days and back to London. He and his servant overcame a lots of
difficulties but was late for 5 minutes when they returned to London.
He thought he was lost but infact he won luckily. As he travels from
the east to the west, he had saved one day. After the release of the
book, it became a great
success and was
published again and again. When
Verne rewrote it into a play in 1874, it was also very famous. Jules
Verne(1828 - 1905), a French fiction writer, was born in a city very
closed to the harbor. He loved sailing, and had left home for being a
sailor, but was discovered by his father. He studied law in Paris in
1848, and didn''t want to be a judge after graduation, and had been a
secretary of a theatre, and wrote plays. He
started being interested in
any scientific discoveries, and prepared for writing science fictions.
In 1863, his "Five Weeks in a Balloon" was published, and was a big
success. In the following 40 years, he worked hard in this area, and
almost every year will have one or two new books. This film is one of
the classics of the Oscar. The American gentlemen Mr. Fogg wagered his
friends that he would travel around the world within 80 days in a club,
and started his journey ion the second
Day. He had faced so many
troubles and all of them were solved by the alertness of Fogg. But at
the same time, Fogg was misunderstood as a bank robber, and was facing
arrest, but the misunderstanding was eliminated at last. Finally, Fogg
completed his magnificent feat in a very bad situation.