Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days

By Jules Verne

  • Release Date: 1873-01-01
  • Genre: Action & Adventure
3 Score: 3 (From 46 Ratings)

Description

The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. 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. 5 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.

Reviews

  • This is NOT A BOOK

    1
    By Good texting app
    This is some nippy piece of #### it's some code
  • Not the book

    1
    By Joecarrot
    It's a preamble to a nonexistent audio file

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