In the Library
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne, 1872
- Form
- Form Novel
- Difficulty
- Difficulty Accessible
- Reading time
- Reading time 4.5 hours
- Translated by
- Translated by George Makepeace Towle
- Chapters
- Chapters 37
- Length
- Length 62k words
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I will bet twenty thousand pounds against anyone who wishes that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less.
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About the book
A reclusive English gentleman wagers twenty thousand pounds at his Reform Club that he can circle the globe in eighty days, and that same evening departs Charing Cross with his new French valet and a carpetbag of banknotes. Jules Verne serialized this novel through 1872 in Le Temps, riding the wave of new steamships, the Suez Canal, and the freshly completed transcontinental railroad. Phileas Fogg moves through Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco like a metronome, calm amid elephants and typhoons, pursued by a detective who mistakes him for a bank robber. Passepartout supplies the human weather his master refuses. The book makes a religion of the timetable, then quietly reveals that the timetable was never the point.