|Around the World in Eighty Days| First edition cover from 1873
|Original title||Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours|
|Translator||George Makepeace Towle| |Illustrator||Alphonse-
Marie-Adolphe de Neuville and Léon Benett| |Series||The
Extraordinary Voyages #11| |Publication date||January 30, 1873|
|Preceded by||The Fur Country| |Followed by||The Mysterious
Island| 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, first 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 set by his friends at the Reform Club.
The story starts in London on October 2, 1872. Phileas Fogg is a
wealthy English gentleman who lives unmarried in solitude at
Number 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens. Despite his wealth,
which is of unknown origin, Mr. Fogg, whose countenance is
described as "repose in action", lives a modest