Around the World in 80 Days

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Around the World in 80 Days

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en

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A wealthy Englishman wagers he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. Accompanied by his loyal servant, Phileas Fogg travels by steamship, train, and elephant, facing natural disasters and a relentless detective who believes him to be a bank robber. A tale of precision, adventure, and unexpected romance.

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In 1872 London, Phileas Fogg, a man of immense wealth and rigid exactitude, places a twenty-thousand-pound wager with members of the Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. He recruits Passepartout, a versatile Frenchman with a history of various trades, as his servant. Their journey commences with a train to Marseilles and a steamship to Suez, where they narrowly escape a cholera outbreak and a shipwreck. Continuing to Bombay, Fogg saves Aouda from bandits, and the party proceeds via Calcutta, the Ganges, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean to Singapore and Hong Kong. Throughout the voyage, Inspector Fix, a British detective, pursues Fogg, convinced he is the bank robber James Strand. Fix attempts to detain Fogg in Hong Kong but fails when Fogg secures passage on a small pilot-boat to Shanghai. Fix eventually boards the same vessel, only to discover Fogg is not the criminal he hunts. Near the journey's end, Fogg makes a critical error: he believes he arrived in London on Saturday, but it is actually Friday. He rushes to the club, arriving just before the deadline and winning the wager. However, the true significance of the journey is revealed only after the fact. Passepartout discovers that because they traveled constantly eastward, they gained a day, meaning they actually completed the tour in seventy-eight days. Fogg realizes that had he not taken the route through India, he would have finished sooner, but he would not have met Aouda. He chooses to remain with her rather than shave off the extra day to win more money. The story concludes with Fogg and Aouda marrying, and Fogg distributing his winnings to his servant and the detective, proving that happiness is the only true gain from his perilous expedition.

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Categories

• Adventure
• Fiction
• Travel