Around the World in Eighty Days

Mentions per year

What Hacker News says

• achilleslinux · Sep 9, 2019 · Recommends

  …Verne. Those books were really ahead of its time. He was a prolific and best Sci-fi writer. I would like to mention few of his works like 20,000 leagues under the sea, journey to the center of earth and Around the World in Eighty Days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne

  on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?” ↗
• julienchastang · Feb 10, 2020 · Recommends

  …of the time in quite a bit of accurate detail. Starting with that as the premise, he then runs with the idea to create the plot. The result is both science and science fiction. My favorite is still "Around the World in Eighty Days". A Jules Verne novel was rediscovered not long ago: "Paris in the Twentieth Century".

  on “Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume Masterpiece” ↗
• iBelieve · Sep 9, 2019 · Recommends

  The Bible. Mysterious Island (1874), Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), and other books by Jules Verne. Books by James Fenimore Cooper. The Sea-Wolf (1904) by Jack London. The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) by Alexandre Dumas. Oliver Twist (1839) by Charles Dickens.

  on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?” ↗
• kingofspain · Sep 25, 2010 · Recommends

  Jules Verne. Any would be good, but particularly Around the World in Eighty Days.

  on “What are great books for boys?” ↗
• anjbe · Jul 24, 2022 · Recommends

  I’ll second Alex’s recommendations of P. G. Wodehouse (especially Jeeves Stories) and Agatha Christie. A personal favorite of mine is Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jules-verne/around-the-wor...

  on “Standard Ebooks” ↗
• ankaAr · Dec 31, 2022 · Recommends

  Around the World in Eighty Days, from Jules Verne. I read that when i was a child and blowed my mind with glimpses from other countries, other cultures and the joy of reading. I think that after that book i had the question: how 100…

  on “Ask HN: What is the most mind expanding book(s) you have read till date?” ↗
• Bluestein · Mar 7, 2021 · Mentions

  …the World opened new headquarters, Pulitzer wanted a big, attention-grabbing story. Bly proposed an around-the-world race to break the fictional record set by Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Pulitzer thought the idea better suited to a man. 'Very well,' Bly said, 'Start the man, and I’ll start the same day for some other newspaper and beat him.' Pulitzer wisely reconsidered. Bly set off…

  on “Nellie Bly, America's first investigative journalist got her start in an asylum” ↗
• neom · Jul 15, 2023 · Mentions

  …organized tours. Cook helped popularize tourism in the late 19th century during the Victorian era. The specific event you are referencing is his 1872 journey around the world. Inspired by Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days," Cook himself circumnavigated the globe. He started his journey in Liverpool, England, and he traveled through the United States, Japan, China, Singapore, Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon), India, and…

  on “In Korean wilds and villages (1938)” ↗
• syncsynchalt · Aug 21, 2024 · Mentions

  I wonder if Pigafetta's account was the inspiration for the ending of Jules Verne's "Around The World In Eighty Days"?

  on “The Discovery of the Celendrical Date Line” ↗