<P> Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre - vingts jours) is an 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 (£ 2,075,400 in 2017) set by his friends at the Reform Club . It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works . </P> <P> The story starts in London on Tuesday, 1 October 1872 . </P> <P> 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, James Forster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 ° F (29 ° C) instead of 86 ° F (30 ° C), Fogg hires Frenchman Jean Passepartout as a replacement . </P> <P> 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 (£ 2,075,400 in 2017) from his fellow club members to complete such a journey within this time period . With 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 . </P>

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