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Jules Verne 's Around the World in Eighty Days is a rip-roaring adventure story set primarily in  Victorian England but spans the world following its protagonist Phileas Fogg. Written with a cosmopolitan and open view of the world, Around the World in Eighty Days is a brilliant tale.

Vivid in its descriptions, Fogg, a cold, brittle man, who slowly shows that he does have the heart of an Englishman . The book wonderfully captures a spirit of adventure that was bubbling around the turn of the century and is impossible to put down.

The Main Plot

The story begins in London where the reader is introduced to an incredibly precise and controlled man by the name of Fogg. Fogg lives happily, although a little mysteriously, for no-one knows the true origin of his wealth. He goes to his gentleman's club every day, and it is there that he accepts a wager to travel around the world in eighty days. He packs his things and, along with his manservant, Passepartout he sets out on his journey.

Early on in his voyage, a police inspector begins to trail him, believing Fogg is a bank robber. After a reasonably uneventful start, difficulties emerge in India when Fogg realities that a train line he was hoping to take has not been finished. He decides to takes an elephant instead.

This diversion is fortunate in one way, for Fogg meets and saves an Indian woman from a forced marriage. On his journey, Fogg will fall in love with Aouda and, on his return to England will make her his wife. In the interim, however, Fogg faces a number of challenges, including losing Passepartout to a Yokohama circus and being attacked by Native Americans in the Midwest.

During this incident, Fogg shows his humanity by going off personally to save his manservant, despite the fact that this could well cost him his bet. Finally, Fogg manages to get back onto British soil (albeit by leading a mutiny aboard a French steamer) and seemingly in enough time to win his bet.

At this point, the police inspector arrests him, delaying him just long enough to lose the bet. He returns home saddened by his failure, but brightened by the fact that Aouda has agreed to marry him. When Passepartout is sent to arrange the wedding, he realizes that it is a day earlier than they think (by traveling East across the International date line they have gained a day), and so Fogg wins his bet.

The Human Spirit of Adventure

Unlike many of his more science-based fiction stories, Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days is interested in the capabilities of technology in his own time. The things that human beings can achieve armed only with a sense of adventure and an exploratory spirit. It is also a brilliant dissection of what it is to be English in the time of empire.

Fogg is a brilliantly drawn character, a man who is stiff-upper-lipped and precise in all his habits. However, as the novel goes on the icy man begins to thaw. He begins to place the importance of friendship and love above his usual concerns of reserve and punctuality. In the end, he is willing to lose his bet to help a friend. He doesn’t care about defeat because he has won the hand of the woman he loves.

Although some would argue it doesn't have the great literary merit of some novels written around the same time, Around the World in Eighty Days certainly makes up for it with its vivid descriptions. The undoubtedly a classic story is peopled with characters who will be long remembered. It is a breathtaking roller-coaster ride around the world and a touching view of an older time. Filled with the thrill of adventure, Around the World in Eighty Days is a wonderful story, written with skill and no short order of panache.

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Seven Key Lessons from  Around the World in Eighty Days  by Jules Verne

•  Be flexible.
• Be careful who you take into your confidence – loose lips sink ships.
• The best laid plans fall apart so have a Plan B.
• Even the most fastidious person makes mistakes.
• Believe in yourself.
• Take chances in life and don’t always play it safe.
• Life is never just about you.

Initial Thoughts on Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne is set in the 1870s and is a book of contradictions ( Review of Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne ). Phileas Fogg appears mysterious to others because they really do not know much about him.

He is a man of few words, but when he speaks, his words count. People do not know where he is from, or anything about his family. They can tell that he is a man of means, yet he doesn’t employ much help in his household, which helps to stem the gossip about him. Around the World in Eighty days is a hero's journey.

Phileas Fogg is called to take a trip around the world and complete it in a short time span. The main theme of the story is traveling around the globe in just 80 days, and it is also about perseverance.

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What is Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne About?

Fogg knows a lot about the world, information that only one well travelled would know, and is often correcting others, yet no one can ever remember a time when he wasn’t around. No one remembers him taking a trip for any length of time. Fogg is also very set in his ways – he leaves his home the same time every day and returns the same time every night and takes the same number of steps to and from.

When he leaves he goes to the Reform Club to have his meals. Fogg always sits at the same table in the same room, and eats alone. He also enjoys a good game of whist and reading the paper. He is so set in his ways, that he fires his manservant because the water he uses to shave was 84 degrees Fahrenheit instead of 86.

Although Phileas Fogg is very set in his ways, he is also charitable, giving money to the poor.

Upon a recommendation, Fogg employs Jean Passepartout to be his new manservant. Passepartout is ready for a change and believes working for Fogg is exactly what he is looking for – he wants predictability and sameness. When he looks at the schedule for his daily work, he is very contented and believes he has landed in the perfect job. Passepartout is French, but left his homeland a few years before. In a previous life, he was a gymnast.

The same day Fogg hires Passepartout life changes for both of them. While playing whist at the Reform Club with his regular partners – Andrew Stuart, an engineer; John Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin, bankers; Thomas Flanagan, a brewer; and Gauthier Ralph, one of the directors of the Bank of England – they have a conversation about a bank robbery of 55,000 pounds at the Bank of England. In those days, they did not have the kind of security we have today and to hear the description, what they actually had was no security. The money was taken from the principal cashier’s table.

During the conversation, they try to figure out who the bank robber could be. Fogg mentions that the world is no longer as big as it was. So of course there is a question about what he means by that. Stuart tries to explain how the world is smaller, and postulates that you can travel around the world in three months. Fogg interjects saying that it’s only eighty days, and John Sullivan agrees with him and proceeds to give them the breakdown which was in the Daily Telegraph:

Breakdown of 80-Day Trip: Mapping Fogg's Trip Around the World in Eighty Days

Stuart exclaims that the time doesn’t take into account bad weather, shipwrecks, contrary winds, railways accidents and other events likely to delay a trip. Phileas Fogg tells them that all of those eventualities are included in the time, and during the time the conversation is going on, he calmly plays whist when it is his turn. The events that the others mention that would likely lengthen a trip around the world, Fogg calmly responds that all those events are included in the 80 days.

Phileas Fogg takes up the challenge to travel around the world in 80 days. He bets 20,000 pounds that he can do it. They accept the bet and Fogg decides to leave that very night. The deal is that Phileas Fogg leaves Wednesday, October 2 nd and return Saturday, December 21 st at 9 pm at the Reform Club. He hands them a cheque for 20,000 pounds, which they will cash if the trip takes more than 80 days. They sign a memorandum of the agreement and now the wager is legal.

He gets home much earlier than his schedule says and that upsets Passepartout, who is looking for predictability. When Fogg informs his manservant about the trip, Passepartout is “overcome with stupefied astonishment.”

Fogg has 40,000 pounds, which is a very large sum in the 1870s. He has wagered half and will use the other half for the trip. He decides to travel light, buying what he and Passepartout need on the way. Fogg makes sure that he takes a copy of Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Steam Transit and General Guide, which has a timetable of the departures and arrivals of steamers and railways.

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The 80-Day Trip Begins

His five friends from the Reform Club see them off on their journey around the world in eighty days. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne is a page turner, and although the author is a pioneer in science fiction, this book captivates the reader, and he disperses history bites throughout the book.

After Fogg leaves London, there is much talk about the wager to travel the world in eighty days, and the newspapers – The Times, Standard, Morning Post, Daily News and 20 other respected newspapers – get caught up in the hype. They think Fogg is mad, except for The Daily Telegraph, which is his sole media supporter. People start to take bets as to whether or not Fogg can complete the journey in the specified timeframe. The bets are against Fogg, 100 and 150 to one.

The Commissioner of Police becomes very suspicious of Fogg. He thinks Fogg is the bank robber and intends to escape by going on the trip. They dispatch Detective Fix to go after Fogg. This is a fantastic book with so many lessons. Early on in the book, we see Fogg as a very inflexible person, but is that who he is? Or is he someone who believes in himself?

Whenever he encounters a challenge he calmly finds a solution because he is determined to win the wager. When he misses one of the steamers along the way, he finds another way to reach his destination, and is able to do so because he has the means.

Fogg keeps meticulous notes on his travel, and makes sure that he gets a visa stamped into his passport even when he doesn’t need to because he wants indisputable proof that he has completed his journey.

When the train they are travelling on in India runs out of track because the railway is not completed, he buys an elephant, Kiouni, and hires a Parsee as a guide. Although it can be dangerous, the guide takes them on a route that’s hidden – through the Indian forest. On their way, they encounter some Brahmins who are on their way to give a human sacrifice to the goddess Kali – the Goddess of love and death.

The guide informs them that it’s an unwilling sacrifice and tells them about Aouda, the young woman who is being sacrificed. At this point in his journey, Fogg is ahead of schedule due to a steamer taking less time than anticipated. Fogg and his group stage a rescue to get Aouda, and Passepartout’s days as a gymnast come in very handy.

When Aouda recovers from the influence of opiates she was exposed to she is able to talk to them and Fogg learns that she has a well-to-do relative in Hong Kong. He thinks that’s the best thing for her is to take her to Hong Kong since staying in India may cause the Brahmins to kidnap her again to use as a human sacrifice. When they arrive in Hong Kong they learn that Aouda’s relative no longer lives there and probably lives in Holland so, Fogg decides to take the young woman with him on his journey.

You see Auoda falling in love with her protector, but it appears that Fogg is quite unaware. He appears to people to have a heart of stone. Along the journey Detective Fix befriends Passepartout and the manservant has loose lips. Ever heard of the phrase, “loose lips sink ships?” He gives Fix too much information even though the detective initially doesn’t disclose his identity. Even when Fix tells Passepartout that he is a detective, and that he believes that Fogg is the bank robber, the manservant doesn’t believe it for a second, yet he doesn’t tell his master.

Fix does many things to undermine Fogg on his trip. When they backfire, he decides to support the adventurer until he gets back on British soil, so that he can arrest him. Fogg is an honourable man, and the reader sees that time and time again. When the train they are on from San Francisco is attacked by Indians, and Passepartout is taken away with a couple of other passengers, Fogg goes after them, and he rescues them.

He is willing to try new things. When the train leaves them because it’s on a schedule and cannot wait for him to find the kidnapped passengers, when Fogg returns, he is willing to ride on a sledge at the suggestion of Fix. That is the only way to reach New York in time to get back to England before December 21 st .

When they arrive on British soil, Fix arrests Fogg for being a bank robber. Fogg he sees his last 20,000 pounds disappearing before his eyes. Hours later, Fix returns after discovering that the real bank robber was captured a few days before. The usually calm Fogg punches the detective.

Fogg, Passepartout and Aouda go to his residence in London. He is quite sad because he has lost the bet and no longer has any money. Auoda says she will marry him, and he accepts because he is in love with her. Fogg sends Passepartout for the Reverend Samuel Wilson to marry them the next day, which is Monday, but the place is closed.

It turns out that because of the route they took to travel the world in 80 days, going east to west, they gained a day, which they hadn’t accounted for, so Fogg is able to get to the Reform Club on time after all.

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Around the World in Eighty Days is from the Extraordinary Voyages series published in 1872 by French Victorian author Jules Verne. Recognized as an early example of the science fiction genre , the novel blends scientific content with artistic style . Verne is well known for writing adventure novels that accurately portray the use of complex travel-related technology developed during the Industrial Revolution such as steam engines and railways. His novels, at the same time, incorporate artistic descriptions of exotic locales and cultural practices.

Verne adapted Around the World in Eighty Days , one of his most popular works, for the theatre in 1874. Since then, multiple adaptations have appeared in different mediums including a musical adaptation produced by Orson Welles in 1946 titled Around the World and a recent television adaptation released in 2021 starring David Tennant as Phileas Fogg .

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Phileas Fogg is a wealthy English gentleman living a solitary life in London. He is a member of the social Reform Club and spends his days following a strict routine that includes reading the daily news and gambling at the club. His recently hired French valet, Jean Passepartout , looks forward to working for a gentleman of such regularity.

That evening at the Reform Club, the members discuss a recent burglary of £50,000 and the completion of the Intercontinental Railroad. Phileas insists that, with the new railroad, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. His fellow club members counter that, while this feat may be possible, it’s most unlikely due to unforeseen delays. Phileas wagers £20,000, half his fortune, that he could indeed travel around the world in 80 days. The men accept the wager , and Phileas proposes to leave immediately.

Phileas tells Passepartout of the new program they will follow. With only two suitcases and a carpetbag containing Phileas’s remaining fortune of £20,000, the pair board the train immediately. They travel from London to Suez, Egypt. Detective Fix , on spotting Phileas, suspects he was behind the aforementioned burglary. The detective plans to follow Phileas and earn the reward for capturing the criminal.

Phileas and Passepartout take a steamer ship, the Mongolia , to Bombay, arriving two days early after promising a large sum of money to the captain. In India, they take the train to Calcutta, where they learn that 80 miles of track are still incomplete. Phileas purchases an elephant, and the pair embark on a journey through the Indian forest toward the next leg of the journey. While traveling through the forest, they encounter a group of Brahmins and learn that a woman named Aouda will soon be ritually sacrificed by the group. Phileas resolves to rescue Aouda. After the failure of a stealthy rescue attempt that evening, Passepartout rescues the Parsee woman by dressing as her deceased husband and pretending to rise from the dead. Aouda joins them as they continue traveling to the next leg of the journey.

Phileas, Passepartout, and Aouda take another steamer, the Rangoon , to Hong Kong, where Aouda resolves to travel with them for the remainder of the journey. Detective Fix continues to follow Phileas, attempting to delay the group and obtain a warrant for the protagonist’s arrest before they leave the British territories. In Yokohama, their next stop, Fix reveals his belief about Phileas to Passepartout. Passepartout is unconvinced, certain that Phileas could not be a criminal. Fix makes another attempt to delay Phileas, this time a successful one: He separates Passepartout from the group, tricks the valet into getting drunk and high, and ensures Phileas never receives word that their next ship will depart earlier than anticipated. Passepartout just makes it aboard the next steamer; Phileas and Aouda do not.

Phileas and Aouda, with Detective Fix on their heels, secure an alternate boat to Shanghai, encountering a typhoon that allows them to intercept the steamer to Yokohama. Phileas has lost two days due to delays. After some searching, Phileas and Aouda reunite with Passepartout in Japan. Fix promises Passepartout that he will help Phileas reach London, intending to arrest him on British soil, and the valet agrees to keep Fix’s identity secret, resolving to wait for a more opportune moment to alert his master.

The group, which now includes Detective Fix, travels by steamer across the Pacific Ocean. On arriving in San Francisco, they board the Pacific Railroad to New York, where they encounter several obstacles including a herd of buffalo crossing the tracks, a failing suspension bridge, and a band of Sioux warriors who ambush the train and kidnap Passepartout. Phileas rescues Passepartout with the aid of the American soldiers. The group then takes a wind-powered sledge to Omaha, where they resume passage to New York by train, now severely off schedule.

From New York, they take an alternate steamer heading to Bordeaux, France. Phileas bribes the crew to mutiny and heads to Liverpool instead. They arrive in Ireland and take the ferry to Liverpool before taking the train on to London. They arrive with five minutes to spare, only for Fix to arrest Phileas immediately.

When Fix learns that the burglar was arrested days earlier, he is remorseful—he apologizes to Phileas for his mistake and for costing him the wager. Phileas, in turn, apologizes to Aouda for bringing her along with him since he is now destitute and cannot provide for her. Aouda reveals that she is in love with Phileas anyway and asks him to marry her. They contact a minister and learn that they are mistaken about the date. It is not December 22; it is December 21. The group traveled east, shortening each day by four minutes for every degree of longitude they crossed. While the same amount of time has passed for them as for the people in London, the sun has risen and set 80 times for Phileas and his companions and only 79 times in London. Passepartout explains this mistake to Phileas, and they eagerly make their way to the Reform Club. Phileas arrives just in time to win the wager with £1,000 left for expenses, which he divides between Passepartout and Fix. He marries Aouda.

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Around the world in Eighty days by Jules Verne - review

Phileas Fogg lives at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens. He's a rich bachelor, around 40 years of age, but nobody knows his source of his ₤40,000 fortune. This amount was significant in the year 1872, when the story is set.

Phileas Fogg lives life in clockwork precision. He is a regular member of the Reform Club, who dismissed his domestic worker James Forster, because he had brought him shaving-water at 84 degrees Fahrenheit instead of 86. Forster is replaced by a Frenchman, Jean Passepartout. At the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg accepts a ₤20,000 bet that he can tour the world in 80 days. All the leading newspapers carry this news and the media considerit as madness. Only The Daily Telegraph supported him.

Phileas Fogg's Itinerary: London to Suez via Mont Cenis and Brindisi Rail and Steamer 7 days

Suez to Bombay Steamer 13 days

Bombay to Calcutta Rail 3 days

Calcutta to Hong Kong Steamer 13 days

Hong Kong to Yokohama (Japan) Steamer 6 days

Yokohama to San Francisco Steamer 22 days

San Francisco to New York City Rail 7 days

New York City to London Rail and Steamer 9 days Total 80 days

Thus Phileas Fogg sets out on his journey around the world with Jean Passepartout. Just as they set out, Passepartout suddenly utters a cry of despair. "'What's the matter?' asked Mr. Fogg. 'Alas! In my hurry--I--I forgot--' 'What?' 'To turn off the gas in my room!' 'Very well, young man,' returns Mr. Fogg, coolly; 'it will burn--at your expense.'"

During their Indian sojourn Passepartout loses his shoes as he enters a place of worship, ignorant of the fact that they should have been parked outside. They are torn from him by three enraged priests.

On his way Phileas Fogg learns about the barbaric practice of 'sati' (Burning of a woman after the death of her husband) and decides to save the woman. The victim Aouda, is an educated lady. Left an orphan, she was married against her will to the old Rajah of Bundelkund. But Phileas Fogg decides to save the woman and hatches out a plan which is executed successfully when he abducts the woman by tricking the guards. Ultimately Phileas Fogg marries Aouda. Their journey continues.

With all the delays, the group think they have arrived back in London five minutes too late. However, the next day they discover they were one day ahead of schedule. This was because they had travelled in an eastward direction, gaining an extra day as they travelled across different time zones!

A well-researched book I should say, but it is very clear that Phileas Fogg didn't travel to the continents of South America and Africa. Jules Verne missed out on those two continents and so the title if the book - Around the World in Eighty Days - is somewhat ironic.

It highlights the precision of Phileas Fogg in a brilliant manner and also showcases the criticism received by Phileas Fogg before leaving for his world tour in the finest way….An unforgettable classic which is recommended for all the ages

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Around the world in 80 days study guide.

Around the World in Eighty Days is an adventure novel written by renowned French author Jules Verne , published in 1873. It tells the story of Phileas Fogg , a resident of London, who makes a bet with the members of his club that he can circumnavigate the globe over land and sea in less than eighty days. This novel is one of Verne's most famous.

In the middle of his writing career, Verne purchased a ship and began sailing around the British Isles and the Mediterranean, with many of his adventures in these ports providing inspiration for Around the World in Eighty Days. The idea for the novel came to him while reading a newspaper in a Paris café in which it was stated that a man could make a journey around the world in eighty days. He wondered how the inevitable crossing of the International Date Line would come into play, making the traveler gain or lose a day, and thus the idea for the novel was born.

The idea of traveling around the world in a certain amount of time was popular, and other writers had written about it before, dating back all the way to Greek traveler Pausanias writing "Around the World" around 100AD. An Italian traveler named Gemelli Careri also wrote a book in 1699 called Voyage Around the World, providing very detailed accounts of civilizations outside of Europe. In 1872 Thomas Cook set out on a journey around the world that took seven months, and documented it in a series of letters. This was just one year before Verne's novel was published, and likely provided some influence.

Around the World in Eighty Days has been adapted into film a number of times, with the 1956 version becoming particularly famous, followed by Disney's adaptation in 2004, which deviated significantly from the events in the book. The novel has been adapted for theatre, television, and radio as well.

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He fires his former butler, James Forster, for bringing him his shaving water two degrees too cold. He hires as a replacement, Passepartout, a Frenchman of about 30.

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