Around the World in 80 Days - Softcover

Verne, Jules

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9781503215153: Around the World in 80 Days

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ISBN 10: 1503215156 ISBN 13: 9781503215153

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

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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 the world in 80 days on a �20,000 wager (roughly �1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.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 �1.6 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.

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Originally published as a French serial in Le Temps in 1872 and translated a year later into English, Around the World in Eighty Days is Jules Verne�s most successful and remembered of his Voyages Extraordinaire. Verne, along with H.G. Wells, is considered one of the fathers of science fiction literature, a prolific purveyor of wonderful adventure novels, and the man who first took us to the moon.

Born in 1828 in Nantes, France, Jules Gabriel Verne grew up in a seafaring family. At a young age he ran off to become a cabin boy until he was caught and returned to his home. As he studied law in Paris, he became interested in theater. A pivotal year for Verne was in 1850 when his father, outraged that he was wasting his time in the theater, cut off his tuition to law school as his first play was published. This forced Verne to write for a living. His first novel came in 1863 (Five Weeks in a Balloon) which was then followed by at least a new novel every year or so for the next forty-two years until his last novel in 1905.

His works featured an innocent fascination with technology and progress along with a love of adventure and exploration. He wrote in a time before the advances and horrors of the twentieth century changed the nature of science fiction into a critical and cautionary literary form. In Verne�s Extraordinary Voyages science represented the best of human curiosity and technology, the best of human ingenuity.

Despite the youthful exuberance of Verne�s work, his stories definitely express the exhilaration of discovering new worlds and new frontiers that have undoubtedly fueled the imaginations of countless readers and adventurers through the last century.

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