Around the World in Eighty Days
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First published in serial form in 1872, Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days begins with an audacious wager: the reserved English gentleman Phileas Fogg believes he can circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Accompanied by his lively French valet, Passepartout, he sets out from London on a journey of steamships, railways and unexpected detours, pursued by Detective Fix, who suspects him of a bank robbery. From the bustling ports of the British Empire to remote landscapes and unfamiliar cities, every delay threatens the wager and tests Fogg’s extraordinary composure.
Blending adventure, humour and social observation, Verne’s novel captures the exhilaration of a world being transformed by modern transport and imperial-era travel. Beneath its ingenious timetable lies a subtler story about chance, loyalty and the limits of treating life as a mathematical problem. One of Verne’s best-loved Extraordinary Voyages, the novel remains a defining work of adventure fiction, propelled by the irresistible question of whether precision and determination can triumph over the unforeseen.
From the book
“The unforeseen does not exist.”
— Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
On Around the World in Eighty Days
“Useful, entertaining, poignant, and moral.”
— Henri Trianon, Le Constitutionnel (1873)