The Unshelved BOOK CLUB PRESENTS AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS BY JULES VERNE

Old Man : "I'm looking for a classic adventure novel."

Dewey : "I just read Around the World in Eighty Days.

Passepartout was looking forward to valeting for the predictable Phileas Fogg.

But his master arrived home from dinner having wagered 20,000 pounds he could travel around the globe in a mere 80 days.

Passepartout packs their bags for a journey that takes them from London to

Bombay, Calcutta to Yokohama, San Francisco to New York, and back to London.

They're trailed by a detective wrongly trailing Mr. Fogg.

They rescue a beautiful Indian woman and escape on elephant back.

At no time does Fogg lose his clam, despite facing a lifetime of poverty if he loses his bet.

(And, despite popular misconception, they never ride in a hot-air balloon. It's read by the fabulous Jim Dale.)"

Old Man : : "I thought you read it."

Dewey : "I listened to the audiobook. He's the same guy who does Harry Potter."

Old Man : "You didn't read them either?"


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