Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne

Jules Verne’s famous book Around the World in 80 Days is truly a timeless classic. Detailing the exploits of Phileas Fogg, an eccentric Englishmen whose punctuality is famed and his impassiveness legendary, and his new valet, French former Acrobat Passepartout, who only wants a quiet life to forget his turbulent past. With Fogg’s fabled routine-driven life that you could set you clock by, peace and quiet for Passepartout seems assured. Until, that is, his new Master returns home to announce that, as a result of a wager at the Reform club, of which Fogg is a patron, he finds out that he has twenty minutes to get things ready for a trip – across the globe… in just 80 days. ...  Read the complete review

Phileas Fogg, that fine purveyor of corn snacks was a star well before you may think. Yes indeed, before he entered into the world of the 'superior' bar snack, he was apparently a character from a famous novel by Jules Verne, about a man who travels around the world in eighty days in order to win a bet with some gentleman at the London reform club. Or was that Willy Fogg? I seem to be getting confused. I think you are too. I'll clarify. This op is not about crisps. This op is not about eighties cartoon adaptations of this most famous of novels. (Although I will no doubt be tempted to refer to said cartoon series throughout the ...  Read the complete review