Around the World in Eighty Days
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 of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.
Cover of the 1873 first edition
The book page containing the famous dénouement (page 312 in the Philadelphia – Porter & Coates, 1873 edition)
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time.
Portrait by Étienne Carjat, c. 1884
Painting of Nantes from Île Feydeau, around the time of Verne's birth
The Lycée Royal in Nantes (now the Georges-Clemenceau), where Verne studied
Aristide Hignard