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Around the World in Eighty Days

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Around the World in Eighty Days

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Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1874
Original French publication, 1873
Series: Voyages Extraordinaires: Book 11
Book Type: Novel
Genre: Science-Fiction / Fantasy
Sub-Genre Tags: Science-Fantasy
Mundane SF
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Phileas Fogg is a rich English gentleman living in solitude. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. Very little can be said about his social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed his former valet, James Foster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 °F (29 °C) instead of 86 °F (30 °C), Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout as a replacement.

At the Reform 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 (equal to about £1.6 million today) from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days. Accompanied by Passepartout, he leaves London by train at 8:45 P.M. on Wednesday, October 2, 1872, and is due back at the Reform Club at the same time 80 days later, Saturday, December 21, 1872.


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