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Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le excursion du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an journey novel by means of the French author Jules Verne, posted in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly hired French valet Passepartout try to circumnavigate the world in eighty days on a £20,000 guess (£2,0.5,four hundred in 2017) set via his pals on the Reform Club. It is one in every of Verne's maximum acclaimed works.The story begins in London on Wednesday, 2 October 1872.Phileas Fogg is a wealthy British gentleman dwelling in solitude. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest existence with conduct done with mathematical precision. Very little may be said approximately his social existence other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having brushed off his former valet, James Forster, for bringing him shaving water at eighty four °F (29 °C) in place of 86 °F (30 °C), Fogg hires Frenchman Jean Passepartout as a substitute.

Picking up where Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days left off, Phileas Fogg's teenage son, Harry, is in trouble. He has made a bet that he can drive a steam-powered motor-car around the world in 100 days. So along with a brilliant but shy mechanic, a sly female journalist, and the son of his opponent in the wager, Harry sets off on a race against time. The trip isn't easy, especially with dissension within the group. The question is, will they be able to finish . . .because the stakes are inconceivably high."A thrilling, thoroughly road-worthy joy ride." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Fun and suspenseful." - Booklist

"All right," said Mr. Fogg; and, turning to the others, he continued: "I have a deposit of twenty thousand at Baring's which I will willingly risk upon it." "Twenty thousand pounds!" cried Sullivan. "Twenty thousand pounds, which you would lose by a single accidental delay!" "The unforeseen does not exist," quietly replied Phileas Fogg. And with that Phileas Fogg was off on one of the most famous and wonderful adventures of all time. Join him as he has one adventure after another.

Verne’s most outrageous “voyage extraordinaire” - a hasty world tour taken up on a gentlemen’s club wager! Mr. Phileas Fogg, master of precision, enters into the strangest wager ever made over the whist table - that he will circle the globe in 80 days. The news astounds Jean Passepartout, sometime wandering minstrel, bareback rider, funambulist, gymnast and fireman, now turned valet to Mr. Fogg in the expectancy of a quiet and well-regulated life. For the next 80 days, their lives are anything but quiet or well-regulated.Jules Verne preferred to call himself an author of “voyages extraordinaires.” An extraordinary voyage it is, from Fogg’s announcement to Passepartout that they are to “leave for Dover in ten minutes,” to his triumphant return to the Reform Club at the last second!