Action & Adventure · Literature & Fiction
Around the World in Eighty Days
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Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (equal to about £2 million in 2016) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.
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Source groups 9
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Networks 30
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What the Evidence Adds
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Emotional Impact
Emotional stakes are a noticeable part of the book, rather than the story operating only at the level of plot or ideas.
Humor
Humor is a meaningful part of the book’s personality and helps shape how the story lands.
Built from 202 retained source records across 88 independent discussions and 22 source networks.
Narrator Experience
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Performance summary
The available recording-specific commentary gives an early but useful picture across several parts of the performance. The recording is specifically described in terms of articulation or pronunciation that should help words, names, and dialogue remain easy to follow. The recording-specific commentary says the narrator handles the cast well. That supports useful character guidance without claiming distinct voices unless the source actually says they are differentiated.
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Early performance evidence points this way: clear or careful diction should make dialogue, names, and unfamiliar terms easier to follow over a longer listen. Positive character-handling feedback suggests the cast should remain manageable by ear, although the evidence does not necessarily establish strongly differentiated voices.
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- LibriVox Community appears on at least 3 other verified audiobook editions in our catalog.
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What the Story Feels Like
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The story tends to keep moving, with enough forward momentum to make scene changes and plot turns feel relatively quick.
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This is the emotional atmosphere readers most often encounter in the story — the mood you are likely to spend the most time in.
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What this means for you: The story offers a brisk, outward-moving adventure shaped by travel, ingenious problem-solving, scientific curiosity, and comic disruption. Its momentum will appeal to listeners who like a classic quest to keep pressing forward, though readers seeking a slower, more reflective novel may find the speed and occasional predictability limiting.
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Reader Themes
How themes are identified
Public discussion largely celebrates the novel’s momentum, imaginative adventure, and humor. Differences appear around pacing, suspense, and overall execution: some readers find the speed exciting and appropriate, while others find parts rushed, predictable, or uneven.
Evidence sources for these themes
Based on themes repeated across 113 independent discussions and 30 source networks.
Where Readers Agree
The strongest agreement centers on propulsive adventure and comic mishaps. The leading theme appears across 9 independent discussions and 10 source networks, which makes it more than a one-off reaction. Scientific imagination and tone also recur, adding useful secondary context to why the book works for people who respond to it. Pace appears less often, so it reads more like a supporting note than the main point of agreement.
The strongest theme is independently supported across 11 discussions and 10 source networks.
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Is This Right for You?
This guidance is based mainly on the book. The exact audiobook edition is verified, but performance evidence is still limited.
This may be worth a look if…
- You are looking for a literature & fiction / action & adventure story.
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- The exact edition and narrator are verified, but we have not yet verified an official sample for this recording.
Our Take
Around the World in Eighty Days remains appealing because its pleasures are direct: movement, invention, comic setbacks, and the satisfaction of watching an ambitious plan tested by circumstances. Readers seem to divide mainly over how predictable or hurried some of the suspense feels, not over the book’s basic energy. This English-language LibriVox Community edition has a resolved recording identity, but the supplied evidence does not support specific claims about its vocal performance.
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Where Reader Reactions Vary
Readers split most clearly around light adventure tone. Because those reactions recur across independent discussions and sources, they look more like genuine taste differences than isolated comments.
The strongest theme is independently supported across 11 discussions and 9 source networks.
Runtime & Edition Details
- Runtime
- 7h 42m
- Format
- Audiobook
- Language
- en
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FAQ
Is the narration evidence specific to this LibriVox Community edition?
No. The supplied evidence identifies the edition and its English language, but does not independently describe this recording’s voice, character work, pronunciation, or delivery. Comments about other narrators were excluded from the narration assessment.
Will the pacing feel fast?
Probably, if your experience matches the dominant reader response: the novel is often called brisk, engaging, and page-turning. Some readers nevertheless find the opening slower or the later movement too hurried.
How prominent is the humor?
Humor is a recurring supporting feature rather than the only purpose of the book. Readers especially notice comic mishaps, playful contrasts, and a lightly humorous narrative style alongside the adventure.
Does the book lean into science fiction?
It includes scientific and physical ideas as part of its imaginative travel world, but the available reader response presents it primarily as an adventure rather than a technical or science-focused novel.
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