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Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist,
poet, and playwright. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport
of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a
lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and
the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led
to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series
of scrupulously researched adventure novels including "Journey to the
Center of the Earth" (1864), "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
"(1870), and "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1873). Verne is
generally considered a major literary author in France and most of
Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde
and on surrealism. He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science
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AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
"Around the World in Eighty Days" is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.
The story starts in London on Tuesday, 1 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. Having dismissed his former valet, 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 from his fellow club members to complete
such a journey within this time period. With Monsieur Passepartout
accompanying him, Fogg departs from London by train at 8:45 p.m. on 2
October; if he is to win the wager, then he will have to return to the
club by this same time on 21 December, 80 days later. |
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