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Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Pass partout attempt to circumnavigate... Read Full Overview

Verne's most outrageous "voyage extraordinaire" - a hasty world tour taken up on a gentlemen's club wager Mr. Phileas Fogg, master of precision, enters into the strangest wager ever made over the whist table - that he will circle the globe in 80 days. The news astounds Jean... Read Full Overview

Verne's most outrageous "voyage extraordinaire" - a hasty world tour taken up on a gentlemen's club wager Mr. Phileas Fogg, master of precision, enters into the strangest wager ever made over the whist table - that he will circle the globe in 80 days. The news astounds Jean... Read Full Overview

Around the World in Eighty DaysBy Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate... Read Full Overview

Es una novela del escritor franc s Julio Verne publicada por entregas en Le Temps desde el 7 de noviembre hasta el 22 de diciembre de 1872, el mismo a o en que se sit a la acci n. Despu s, ser a publicada de manera ntegra el 30 de enero de 1873. Las peripecias del brit nico... Read Full Overview

The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English gentleman and bachelor living in solitude at Number 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens. Despite his wealth, which is 40,000 (roughly 3,020,000 today), Fogg, whose countenance is described as "repose... Read Full Overview

The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Phileas Fogg is a rich British 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... Read Full Overview

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a 20,000 wager ( 7,578,192.00... Read Full Overview