While balloons were well known in 1872, and Jules Verne described them in other books, the original novel lets Fogg dismiss balloons as useless for travel.
Some of the adaptations have set up Fogg and Passepartout travelling a leg of the journey in a hot air balloon. At a time when round-the-world travel was becoming far more accessible due to commercial flights, it sparked massive interest in travel and tourism. It was a star-studded cast featuring cameos by Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich and others. The 1956 film version starring David Niven and Cantinflas won 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The story was so popular with the public that it has spawned many film and TV adaptations.
#Cast of around the world in 80 days for free
The book is available for free from Project Gutenberg with a free companion audio book. The complete text of the novel is on Wikisource in the original French and in an English translation.
#Cast of around the world in 80 days serial
Such places include Egypt, Yemen, India, Singapore, Hong Kong and Ireland, with Shanghai also home to a British concession at that time.Īround the World in Eighty Days was first published as a serial from October to December 1872, causing some readers to believe that the journey took place in real life. In a certain sense, the story was also a showcase of the vastness of the British Empire at that time, as the majority of places visited by Fogg were British colonies. The journey, as described in the story, was technically possible with the new technology of its era. Advances such as the ceremonial last spike in a first transcontinental railroad in the United States of America (May 10, 1869), construction of the Suez Canal in Egypt (1869) and linking of Indian railways across the sub-continent (1870) were ushering in an era where-at least for a wealthy few-passengers on common carriers would be able to readily purchase around-the-world journeys which formerly were multi-year adventures attempted on sailing ships by a hardy, pioneering minority. Widespread deployment of steam power on land and sea was slashing travel times on an unprecedented scale in the mid to late 1800s an intercity journey by stagecoach that used to take a week was often completed same-day by rail. Unlike much of Verne's work, Around the World in Eighty Days is not a work of science fiction.
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