Round the World in Eighty Days.NOVEL By: Jules Verne (classic adventure)

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (equivalent to £1,600,000 in 2015) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works he story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872.

Phileas Fogg is a rich British gentleman living in solitu...