Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days
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About this book:
Around the World in
Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) 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 (roughly £1,324,289 today) set by his
friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed
works.
During this
adventure, the reclusive bachelor finds love, is involved in
mastering various catastrophes place in his path, and spends half his
wealth in pursuit of the wager. The story involves cliff-hanger
outcomes right through to the surprise ending.
The story starts
in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English
gentleman and bachelor living in solitude at Number 7 Savile Row,
Burlington Gardens. Despite
his wealth, which is £40,000 (roughly £2,650,000 today), Fogg,
whose countenance is described as "repose in action", 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, James
Foster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 °F (29 °C) instead of
86 °F (30 °C), Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean
Passepartout, who is about 30 years old, as a replacement.
Later on
that day, in 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 (roughly £1,320,000
today) from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he
makes it around the world in 80 days. Accompanied by Passepartout, he
leaves London by train at 8:45 P.M. on Wednesday, October 2, 1872,
and thus is due back at the Reform Club at the same time 80 days
later, Saturday, December 21, 1872.
Fogg and
Passepartout reach Suez in time. While disembarking in Egypt, they
are watched by a Scotland Yard detective named Fix, who has been
dispatched from London in search of a bank robber. Because Fogg
answers the description of the robber, Fix mistakes Fogg for the
criminal. Since he cannot secure a warrant in time, Fix goes on board
the steamer conveying the travellers to Bombay. During the voyage,
Fix becomes acquainted with Passepartout, without revealing his
purpose. On the voyage, Fogg promises the engineer a large reward if
he gets them to Bombay early. They dock two days ahead of schedule.
After
reaching India they take a train from Bombay (now Mumbai) to Calcutta
(Kolkata). About halfway there, Fogg learns that the Daily Telegraph
article was wrong—the railroad ends at Kholby and starts again 50
miles further on at Allahabad. Fogg promptly buys an elephant, hires
a guide, and starts toward Allahabad.
During the
ride, they come across a procession, in which a young Indian woman,
Aouda, is led to a sanctuary to be sacrificed by the process of
suttee the next day by Brahmins. Since the young woman is drugged
with the smoke of opium and hemp and is obviously not going
voluntarily, the travellers decide to rescue her. They follow the
procession to the site, where Passepartout secretly takes the place
of Aouda's deceased husband on the funeral pyre on which she is to be
burned the next morning. During the ceremony he rises from the pyre,
scaring off the priests, and carries the young woman away. Due to
this incident, the two days gained earlier are lost, but Fogg shows
no sign of regret...
(source:
Wikipedia)
About the author: Jules
Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French
novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels
and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.
Born to
bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, Verne 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, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in
Eighty Days.
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. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone
regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or
children's books, not least because of the highly abridged and
altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted.
Verne is
the second most translated author in the world (following Agatha
Christie),and his works appear in more translations per year than
those of any other writer. Verne is one writer sometimes called "The
Father of Science Fiction," as are H. G. Wells and Hugo
Gernsback.
(source:
Wikipedia)
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Bryce Ryness, Phileas Fogg Go “Around the World in 80 Days” - But when you look at Robert Andrew Kovach's set design for Mark Brown's whimsy-packed adaptation of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days, the stage is really the entire venue. For not only has producer Cedric Yau ...
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