My daughter Laura has discovered Jules Verne. We read together (separately), Journey to the Centre of the Earth, now Around the World in 80 Days and we're getting started on 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea(s). I've read all this in Brazil, in Portuguese, when i was about her age, borrowing each green-leather bound book from my Grandfather Gustavo's collection. They are great books, exciting and rewarding.
Quotes:
“Monsieur is going to leave home?” “Yes,” returned Phileas Fogg. “We are going round the world.”
Phileas Fogg, who was not travelling, but only describing a circumference,
In the way this strange gentleman was going on, he would leave the world without having done any good to himself or anybody else.
“Why, you are a man of heart!” “Sometimes,” replied Phileas Fogg, quietly; “when I have the time.”
“The valves are not sufficiently charged!” he exclaimed. “We are not going. Oh, these English! If this was an American craft, we should blow up, perhaps, but we should at all events go faster!”
If anyone, at this moment, had entered the Custom House, he would have found Mr. Fogg seated, motionless, calm, and without apparent anger, upon a wooden bench.
Phileas Fogg was free! He walked to the detective, looked him steadily in the face, and with the only rapid motion he had ever made in his life, or which he ever would make, drew back his arms, and with the precision of a machine knocked Fix down.
Chapter XXXVII: In Which It Is Shown That Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing By His Tour Around The World, Unless It Were Happiness
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