AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS

JULES VERNE

Jules Verne’s most-acclaimed novel remains a cultural cornerstone to this day. He had make the best story ever write: AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS1. The story of Phileas Fogg’s spectacular journey by then-novel technologies is a fast-paced, colorful, and thoroughly enjoyable portrait of the British empire at the height of its power.

Phileas Fogg is a wealthy English gentleman living a solitary life in London. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives modestly and carries out his habits with mathematical precision.

He is a member of the Reform Club, where he spends the best part of his days. Having dismissed his valet for bringing him shaving water at a temperature slightly lower than expected, Fogg hires Frenchman Jean Passepartout as a replacement.

On the evening of 2 October 1872, while at the Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days.

He accepts a wager for £20,000, half of his fortune, from his fellow club members to complete such a journey within this period. With Passepartout accompanying him, Fogg departs from London by train at 8:45 p.m.; to win the wager, he must return to the club by this same time on 21 December, 80 days later. They take Fogg’s remaining £20,000 with them to cover expenses during the journey.

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Sources:

1. https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jules-verne/around-the-world-in-eighty-days/george-makepeace-towle
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days