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Around
the
World
in
Eighty
Days
is
an
adventure
novel
by
the
French
writer
,
first
in
French
in
1872
.
In
the
story
,
of
London
and
his
newly
French
Passepartout
attempt
to
the
world
in
80
days
on
a
of
£20
,
000
by
his
friends
at
the
Reform
Club
.
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Phileas
Fogg
is
an
English
gentleman
who
spends
his
days
playing
whist
,
a
card
game
,
with
his
friends
at
the
Reform
Club
,
and
spends
his
nights
alone
in
his
large
townhome
on
Saville
Row
in
London
.
Fogg
has
no
wife
and
no
children
and
mostly
keeps
to
himself
.
An
air
of
mystery
Fogg
wherever
he
goes
because
of
his
extreme
.
Fogg
follows
a
routine
every
day
.
synchronized employment fired scolding shortly
Every
clock
and
watch
he
owns
is
down
to
the
second
.
Fogg
fires
his
servant
and
Jean
Passepartout
,
a
Frenchman
,
arrives
after
,
looking
for
and
Fogg
hires
him
on
the
spot
.
Passepartout
had
been
looking
for
a
quieter
life
after
being
by
his
former
employer
for
him
for
being
drunk
.
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That morning Fogg and his friends news that a robber as a gentleman has stolen 55 , 000 pounds from the Bank of England . One of the members that the robber is long gone , since the world is so large and there are of places to hide . This comment Fogg ? s interest . Fogg says the world is no longer so big . He says that it is now possible to travel across the world in eighty days due to modern in transportation .
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Fogg ? s friends at him , which him to make a : He bets 20 , 000 pounds , all the money he has in the bank , that he can travel around the world in eighty days . The men accept his wager and agree to find him at the Reform Club , in the same room , at the same time , eighty days later , on December 21 at 8 : 45 p . m . or they will the bet .