Around the World in 80 Days

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Brought along on Fogg’s journey is Passepartout, whose clever name means “goes everywhere,” or “master key. On the evening of 2 October 1872, while at the 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. While speaking to Reverend Wilson, Passepartout learns that it is, in fact, a day earlier than he believed. The hilarious adventures of Phileas Fogg and his servant Paspartout, owe everything to Verne's imagination. Fogg’s new valet Passepartout soon found out his daily routine was to the minute, “toast and tea at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving water (at 86º) at thirty-seven minutes past nine.

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The main character Phileas fogg is about as dry as a desert and a good match for the fiery Frenchman Passepartout.

Fogg’s friends scoff at him, which emboldens him to make a daring wager: He bets 20,000 pounds, all the money he has in the bank, that he can travel around the world in eighty days. Frigg, the English detective, who is sure that Fogg is the great convict who has escaped after the great train robbery committed in England a couple of days before the journey started.

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In interviews in 1894 and 1904, Verne says the source was "through reading one day in a Paris cafe" and "due merely to a tourist advertisement seen by chance in the columns of a newspaper. The book of Around the World in Eighty Days published in 1873 sold nearly half a million copies during Verne’s lifetime. Though the plot is a bit slow in places, it contains a lot of fun detail about the world in the days when the sun never set on the British empire.

Packing in more than fifty unforgettable characters, this imaginative version of Around the World in 80 Days was written for an ensemble cast of eight, but can be performed by a much larger cast – making it perfect for any theatre company or drama group looking for a high-spirited adventure. Soon, Fogg arrives in India, where he finds that modern advances in transportation haven’t evolved as much as he thought and he is forced to travel by elephant for part of the way. You've even got yourself an Indian woman who is only saved from "savage natives" who are going to sacrifice her because she is kinda British in appearance and speech. Verne’s most successful tale has been craftily remade as a TV series and premiered on BBC on December 26, 2021 and on PBS Masterpiece on January 2, 2022. I still remember the smell of the book, picked from the "Classics for children" section, and how I opened it and started reading.

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And the story is based on so much factual information that it’s actually far more fun and entertaining than I expected. But even the Le Tour de monde article was not entirely original; it cites in its bibliography the Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, de la Géographie, de l'Histoire et de l'Archéologie (August 1869), which also contains the title Around the World in Eighty Days in its contents page. Where did Jules Verne find his ideas for Phileas Fogg and his extraordinary globe-trotting adventure? The character of Phileas Fogg has become a stoic archetype for too cool operators in books to come in several genres. I usually prefer long books with lots of details and drawn-out adventures, but once in a while it's nice to read a shorter story where lots of things happen.

Fogg suffers insults from boisterous Americans, attacks from the local Sioux tribes, weak bridges, faulty transportation, and sledge rides across snowy, wolf-ridden prairies. This edition from Librivox* was translated by George Makepeace Towle, obviously I don’t know how accurate the translation is but the prose is very readable and the narrative entertaining.

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If he hasn't been present and that is just what is built up by the writing in this book I am speechless.

After a venturesome life as a vagrant, singer, circus performer, and firefighter, he was eager to settle down and lead a more tranquil life as Fogg’s domestic help.