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Joyce Chaplin: He's a pioneer now of what might be regarded as steampunk. He wrote works for the stage and the page, including romance-tinged adventure stories and science fiction. He was a prolific writer- Around the World in 80 Days was part of a collection of 54 novels called Extraordinary Voyages-and he was also quite inventive, known for bending and blending genre lines. Zachary Davis: Jules Verne was born in Nantes, France in 1828. Joyce Chaplin: The book is an adventure story that was written for a Paris newspaper, Le Temps, and was serialized, and that sort of breathless way in which you'd be waiting for the next installment that the author, Jules Verne was busy writing. In this episode, I sat down with Harvard history professor Joyce Chaplin to talk about Around the World in 80 Days, a 19th century novel that reflected-and helped to create-a new global consciousness. In each episode, we talk to one of the world’s leading scholars about the impact a book can have. Welcome to Writ Large, a podcast about books that changed the world.

If it weren’t for that chartered train, Bly wouldn’t have returned in time-but if it weren't for Jules Verne, she might never have left at all. She arrived back in New York in 72 days, beating Phileas Fogg’s time and setting a (briefly held) world record. A rough crossing on the Pacific delayed her, but the owner of the newspaper she worked for chartered a train to bring her home. Verne was skeptical-sure, he had imagined a trip that fast, but could Bly actually do it? She would make the journey in 75 days-at most.Īlong her journey, Bly made a stop in France to visit Jules Verne, the author who had created the character she was racing.

That seemed impossibly fast at the time, but Bly’s goal was even faster. Zachary Davis: In November of 1889, a 25-year-old journalist named Nellie Bly set off from New York with a mission: she was going to circumnavigate the globe.īly was inspired by the fictional voyage of Phileas Fogg, a Londoner who travelled around the world in 80 days.