Around the World in 80 Days

Literature's classic race against the clock.Part manhunt, part love story, part social satire, but mostly a race against the clock, Around the World in 80 Days is Jules Verne's most rollicking novel. When Phileas Fogg, a wealthy British gentleman who lives his life "e,with mathemetical predictability,"e, bets the fellow members of his club GBP20,000 that he can circle the earth in just eighty days, he and his new valet, Passepartout, set out on a whirlwind tour of the globe that will ch ...