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'80 Days' still a grand reading adventure

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20040111
Author:Roger K. Miller

Around the World in Eighty Days

By Jules Verne; translated by George M. Towle

Modern Library. $9.95 paper.

Jules Verne is one in that long list of authors people persist in reading despite the critics. Like those of Jack London, many of his works are considered mere children's stories, and his style, or supposed lack thereof, is criticized for uncraftedness and naivete.

The only attributes the Frenchman's novels have going for them, seemingly, are excitement, adventure and intellectual substance. That has been enough to keep the major ones continuously in print, in dozens of languages, for ...

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