Around the World in Eighty Days (French:
Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer
Jules Verne , first published in French in 1872. 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 (approximately £2.3 million in 2020) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne’s most acclaimed works.
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always very well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time.
Translated by
George Makepeace Towle (1841-1893