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Around the World in Eighty Days
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1872
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 260
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.
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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