Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781534814721 - June 21, 2016
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Around the World in Eighty Days

The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Phileas Fogg is a rich British 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 Forster, 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.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 21, 2016
ISBN13 9781534814721
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 198
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 11 mm   ·   272 g
Language English  

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