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Around the world in 80 days (Roman en Anglais Abrégé & Illustré)

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  • Catégories: Littérature & fiction
  • Etat: Neuf
  • Publiée le: 30-03-2022 à 00:00:00
Description
Around the World in Eighty Days  is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days, set by his friends at the Reform Club. The story starts in London on Wednesday, 2 October 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, where he spends much of every day. 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 Frenchman 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 (£2,221,600 in 2018), half of his total fortune, from his fellow club members to complete such a journey within this time period. With Passepartout accompanying him, Fogg departs from London by train at 8:45 p.m. on 2 October; in order to win the wager, he must return to the club by this same time on 21 December, 80 days later. They take the remaining £20,000 of Fogg's fortune with them to cover expenses during the journey.
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