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Author’s Name: Jules Verne
Book Name: Around the World in 80 Days
Genre: Adventure Novel
Language: English
About the Author
Jules Verne was an author, poet, and dramatist from France. He co-created the Voyages Extraordinaires series of blockbuster adventure books with publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, which includes Around the World in Eighty Days. His books are typically set in the second half of the nineteenth century, taking into consideration technical developments of the period.
Jules Verne was an author, poet, and dramatist from France. He co-created the Voyages Extraordinaires series of blockbuster adventure books with publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, which includes Around the World in Eighty Days. His books are typically set in the second half of the nineteenth century, taking into consideration technical developments of the period.
About the Book
Around the World in Eighty Days is a French adventure story written by Jules Verne and originally published in 1872. Phileas Fogg of London and his recently hired French servant Passepartout try to round the globe in 80 days on a GB£20,000 wager made by his Reform Club buddies. It is regarded as one of Verne's most well-known writings.
Around the World in Eighty Days is a French adventure story written by Jules Verne and originally published in 1872. Phileas Fogg of London and his recently hired French servant Passepartout try to round the globe in 80 days on a GB£20,000 wager made by his Reform Club buddies. It is regarded as one of Verne's most well-known writings.
Book Summary
The narrative begins in London on October 1st, on a Tuesday. Phileas Fogg, a wealthy British gent, leads a lonely, well-organized lifestyle. He belongs to the Reform Club and employs a French valet named Jean Passepartout. An article in the Daily Telegraph newspaper inspired him to believe that an eighty-day voyage around the world was conceivable, pointing to a new railway in India that would allow him to do it.
He accepts a 20,000-pound bet from his club members and, with Passepartout in tow, departs London on a train at 8:45 p.m. on October 2. He must return to the club by the same hour on December 21 to collect the bet.
The first stage of Fogg and Passepartout's voyage leads them to Egypt, where a Scotland Yard detective named Fix is on the hunt for a bank robber. He is unable to provide a detailed description and misidentifies Fogg as the offender. He also lacks a warrant, so he boards a ship heading for Bombay with them.
He befriends Passepartout, but he doesn't tell him why he's there. After India, they board a train to Calcutta, where Fogg discovers that the new rail mentioned in the Daily Telegraph comes to a rest at one point and does not continue until Allahabad, fifty miles away.
The narrative begins in London on October 1st, on a Tuesday. Phileas Fogg, a wealthy British gent, leads a lonely, well-organized lifestyle. He belongs to the Reform Club and employs a French valet named Jean Passepartout. An article in the Daily Telegraph newspaper inspired him to believe that an eighty-day voyage around the world was conceivable, pointing to a new railway in India that would allow him to do it.
He accepts a 20,000-pound bet from his club members and, with Passepartout in tow, departs London on a train at 8:45 p.m. on October 2. He must return to the club by the same hour on December 21 to collect the bet.
The first stage of Fogg and Passepartout's voyage leads them to Egypt, where a Scotland Yard detective named Fix is on the hunt for a bank robber. He is unable to provide a detailed description and misidentifies Fogg as the offender. He also lacks a warrant, so he boards a ship heading for Bombay with them.
He befriends Passepartout, but he doesn't tell him why he's there. After India, they board a train to Calcutta, where Fogg discovers that the new rail mentioned in the Daily Telegraph comes to a rest at one point and does not continue until Allahabad, fifty miles away.
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Unafraid, Fogg purchases an elephant and hires a guide, and they set off on their journey once more. The visitors then come upon Aouda, a young Indian woman who has been poisoned and is about to be sacrificed.
Fogg and Passepartout create a strategy to save her, and after terrifying the priests by claiming to be her late husband on the death march where she is to be burnt, they are off again, this time carrying Aouda.
They board a ship to Hong Kong as a trio. Fogg and Passepartout are caught by Detective Fix, but after they are released on bail, they run to Hong Kong, where Passepartout is delighted to see him again.
Aouda was supposed to be left with a relative in Hong Kong, but that person has already gone, so she joins them on their voyage back to Europe. Fix informs Passepartout that his boss is a bank robber in an attempt to capture Fogg once more. Passepartout, who suspected Fix of being a spy for the Reform Club, denies the claim. Fogg and Aouda miss a ship to Yokohama due to a chain of circumstances.
They soon find their way and begin looking for Passepartout, who had come earlier. The valet has been working for a circus to gain money to get home. The trio, together with Fix, board a paddle-steamer for San Francisco, where Fix promises he will quit attempting to extend the voyage and instead assist them in returning to Britain, where he will capture Fogg.
The next part of their journey will take them to New York by train. Various obstacles block their progress once more, including an attempt by Sioux warriors who abduct Passepartout. Soldiers from the United States assist in his rescue.
When they arrive in New York, they discover that they have missed their cruise. Fogg, with the help of his big riches, hires a steamboat in the hopes of getting to Liverpool. Because the captain refuses, Fogg arranges for his group's transportation to Bordeaux, France. He pays the sailors to launch a mutiny and sail to Liverpool once they're at sea. When the boat runs out of fuel, Fogg buys some from the captain and orders the crew to burn whatever wood they can to stay on track.
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They eventually arrive in Ireland and take a train from Dublin to Liverpool, where they board a boat. They still have a chance to fulfill the deadline and win the betting. Fix arrests Fogg as soon as they get on English soil. This is just temporary, as the actual thief was arrested three days prior.
The postponement, on the other hand, is expensive. Fogg arrives five minutes late in London and learns he has lost the betting. He regrets bringing Aouda to London, where he will then have to live in poverty. Passepartout looks for a priest when she asks him to marry her.
It turns out that the crew crossed the International Date Line during their journey and gained a day since they moved east, therefore it is actually December 21, not December 22, as Fogg had assumed. Fogg arrives at the club just in time to win the betting. He divides what is left with Passepartout and Fix, and he and Aouda marry, even though much of the money had already been spent on the eighty-day journey.
THE END!
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