Around the World in 80 Days
by Jules Verne
Narrated by Patrick Tull
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Patrick Tull sounds like he attended the same gentlemen's club as Phileas Fogg — which makes this Victorian adventure feel less like fiction and more like a firsthand account.
- Great if you want: a breezy globe-trotting adventure with real ticking-clock tension
- Listening experience: brisk and episodic — short chapters make it dangerously easy to keep going
- Narration: Tull's clipped British delivery mirrors Fogg's unflappable precision perfectly
- Skip if: you need deep characters — Fogg is famously opaque by design
About This Audiobook
Around the World in 80 Days follows the immaculate Phileas Fogg of London and his French valet Passepartout on their impulsive race to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days, a wager of twenty thousand pounds made at the Reform Club. Verne's 1872 novel is a celebration of Victorian technology and imperial confidence, with a detective named Fix in dogged pursuit of Fogg on suspicion of bank robbery adding a comic parallel chase to the adventure.
Patrick Tull's narration honors the Audie Award-winning production with a performance suited to the novel's comic-adventure register. His Fogg is appropriately imperturbable, and the supporting cast of the journey, from Indian railway lines to American prairies, is given enough variety in voice to sustain the episodic structure. The relatively compact runtime keeps the novel's pace exactly what Verne intended: fast.