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"Around the World in 80 Days" is an adventure novel by the famous French writer Jules Verne, telling about the amazing journey of an eccentric Englishman named Phileas Fogg and his faithful French servant Jean Passportou. The novel was written in 1872 and first published in 1873.

The main character of the novel, Phileas Fogg, is a very rich man, but no one knows how he acquired his fortune. Fogg is distinguished by his particular punctuality, which concerns not only the time of arrival for various types of meetings, but also everyday, seemingly not very important things, for example, the temperature of the toast. In addition, the hero has exceptional mathematical abilities.

The work begins with a robbery of the Bank of England, and when witnesses draw up a portrait of the criminal, he turns out to be very similar to Fogg. At the same time, at the Reform Club of London, he makes a daring bet that he can travel around the world for 80 days (at that time this was the maximum possible speed for this event). As soon as the bet is broken, Fogg and his servant immediately go to the station, but they are mistakenly chased by Scotland Yard inspector Mr. Fix, who decides that Fogg is the same criminal who committed the robbery, and the dispute is just a decoy.

The journey brings Fogg and Passport a lot of fun adventures, but the heroes also face dangers. Cheerful travelers have to travel on steam locomotives, hot air balloons, airplanes, schooners, packet boats, and one day a real elephant becomes their vehicle. Their path lies through England, France, India, China, Egypt, Japan and America.

The main danger awaits the heroes in India, where they meet the beautiful girl Auda, her husband, the Raja, has died and the young lady will be burned along with the body of her late husband. Fogg and Passport cannot leave the girl in trouble, they save Auda and she becomes a new member of their expedition.

Despite numerous twists and turns, the ending of the book is very optimistic - Fogg, Passport and Auda return to England on time, thus winning the bet. By this time, it also turns out that Fogg is not guilty of the crime and all suspicions are removed from him, and he proposes to Auda.

The basis of the novel was an interesting scientific fact, which makes itself felt at the end of the work. The fact is that if you go around the world from east to west, you can gain one day, but if you start in the opposite direction, one day, on the contrary, will be lost. The writing of the novel was preceded by an essay by Jules Verne, in which he talks about how there can be as many as three Sundays on the planet in one week. So, if one person remains in place, the second travels around the world from west to east, and the other from east to west, and these three people meet, it turns out that for one of them Sunday was yesterday, for another it is today, and for the second - it has yet come and will be tomorrow. In the work "Around the World in 80 Days" Jules Verne explains this scientific fact, but it also concerns the interpretation of many other interesting hypotheses about our world.

"Around the world in eighty days"(fr. Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours ) is a popular adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, which tells the story of the journey of the eccentric and phlegmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg and his French servant Jean Passepartout around the world, undertaken as a result of one bet.

Plot

Path

Path	Way	Duration
London - Suez	Train and packet boat	7 days
Suez - Bombay	Packetbot	13 days
Bombay - Kolkata	Train and elephant	3 days
Kolkata - Hong Kong	Packetbot	13 days
Hong Kong - Yokohama		6 days
Yokohama - San Francisco		22 days
San Francisco - New York	Train and sleigh	7 days
New York - London	Packet boat and train	9 days
Bottom line		80 days

Illustrations by Neville and Bennett

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Phileas Fogg's Journey Map

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Book cover

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Phileas Fogg

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Jean Passepartout

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Passepartout in Suez

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Everyone was taken apart

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Unplanned purchase

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Traveling on a new transport

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Hindu woman in captivity

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Rescue of Miss Auda

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Passepartout's farewell to the elephant

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In the smoking room

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Fix arrests Fogg

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Fogg enters the club at the head of the crowd

Characters

Main

Phileas Fogg(fr. Phileas Fogg) - Englishman, pedant, bachelor, wealthy man. He is accustomed to living by the rules he has established and does not tolerate the slightest violation of them (this is proven by the fact that Fogg fired his former servant, James Forster, because he brought him shaving water heated 2 °F below the required level). He knows how to keep his word: he bet 20 thousand pounds sterling that he would travel around the world in 80 days, spent 19 thousand and was exposed to many dangers, but still kept his word and won the bet.
Jean Passepartout(fr. Jean Passepartout) - Frenchman, valet of Phileas Fogg after James Forster. Born in Paris. I tried the most unusual professions (from a gymnastics teacher to a fireman). Having learned that “Mr. Phileas Fogg is the neatest man and the biggest homebody in the United Kingdom,” he came to his service.
Fix(fr. Fix) - detective; throughout the book he chased Phileas Fogg around the globe, considering him a thief who robbed the Bank of England.
Aouda(fr. Aouda) - the wife of an Indian rajah, who after his death was supposed to die at the stake along with her husband's ashes. Auda was saved by Phileas Fogg; she became his companion all the way to England, where Fogg and Auda got married.

Minor

Andrew Stewart(fr. Andrew Stuart), John Sullivan(fr. John Sullivan), Samuel Fallentine(fr. Samuel Fallentin), Thomas Flanagan(fr. Thomas Flanagan) And Gautier Ralph(fr. Gauthier Ralph) - members of the Reform Club, who, while playing whist, bet with Fogg that he would not be able to travel around the world in 80 days.
Andrew Speedy(fr. Andrew Speedy) - captain of the ship "Henrietta", who became one of the most serious obstacles on Fogg's path from the USA to England: he planned to go to Bordeaux, France.

Current state

Unusually popular during the author's lifetime, the novel still serves as the basis for numerous film adaptations, and the image of Phileas Fogg has become the embodiment of English equanimity and perseverance in achieving goals.

Film adaptations

In cinema

In animation

1972 - 80 days around the world (Australia)
1976 - Puss in Boots around the world (Japan)
1983 - Around the World with Willy Fog (Spain-Japan) Animated series

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“She’s the one,” a rough female voice was heard in response, and after that Marya Dmitrievna entered the room.
All the young ladies and even the ladies, with the exception of the oldest ones, stood up. Marya Dmitrievna stopped at the door and, from the height of her corpulent body, holding high her fifty-year-old head with gray curls, looked around at the guests and, as if rolling up, slowly straightened the wide sleeves of her dress. Marya Dmitrievna always spoke Russian.
“Dear birthday girl with the children,” she said in her loud, thick voice, suppressing all other sounds. “What, you old sinner,” she turned to the count, who was kissing her hand, “tea, are you bored in Moscow?” Is there anywhere to run the dogs? What should we do, father, this is how these birds will grow up...” She pointed to the girls. - Whether you want it or not, you have to look for suitors.
- Well, what, my Cossack? (Marya Dmitrievna called Natasha a Cossack) - she said, caressing Natasha with her hand, who approached her hand without fear and cheerfully. – I know that the potion is a girl, but I love her.
She took out pear-shaped yakhon earrings from her huge reticule and, giving them to Natasha, who was beaming and blushing for her birthday, immediately turned away from her and turned to Pierre.
- Eh, eh! kind! “Come here,” she said in a feignedly quiet and thin voice. - Come on, my dear...
And she menacingly rolled up her sleeves even higher.
Pierre approached, naively looking at her through his glasses.
- Come, come, my dear! I was the only one who told your father the truth when he had a chance, but God commands it to you.
She paused. Everyone was silent, waiting for what would happen, and feeling that there was only a preface.
- Good, nothing to say! good boy!... The father is lying on his bed, and he is amusing himself, putting the policeman on a bear. It's a shame, father, it's a shame! It would be better to go to war.
She turned away and offered her hand to the count, who could hardly restrain himself from laughing.
- Well, come to the table, I have tea, is it time? - said Marya Dmitrievna.
The count walked ahead with Marya Dmitrievna; then the countess, who was led by a hussar colonel, the right person with whom Nikolai was supposed to catch up with the regiment. Anna Mikhailovna - with Shinshin. Berg shook hands with Vera. A smiling Julie Karagina went with Nikolai to the table. Behind them came other couples, stretching across the entire hall, and behind them, one by one, were children, tutors and governesses. The waiters began to stir, the chairs rattled, music began to play in the choir, and the guests took their seats. The sounds of the count's home music were replaced by the sounds of knives and forks, the chatter of guests, and the quiet steps of waiters.
At one end of the table the countess sat at the head. On the right is Marya Dmitrievna, on the left is Anna Mikhailovna and other guests. At the other end sat the count, on the left the hussar colonel, on the right Shinshin and other male guests. On one side of the long table are older young people: Vera next to Berg, Pierre next to Boris; on the other hand - children, tutors and governesses. From behind the crystal, bottles and vases of fruit, the Count looked at his wife and her tall cap with blue ribbons and diligently poured wine for his neighbors, not forgetting himself. The countess also, from behind the pineapples, not forgetting her duties as a housewife, cast significant glances at her husband, whose bald head and face, it seemed to her, were more sharply different from his gray hair in their redness. There was a steady babble on the ladies' end; in the men's room, voices were heard louder and louder, especially the hussar colonel, who ate and drank so much, blushing more and more, that the count was already setting him up as an example to the other guests. Berg, with a gentle smile, spoke to Vera that love is not an earthly, but a heavenly feeling. Boris named his new friend Pierre the guests at the table and exchanged glances with Natasha, who was sitting opposite him. Pierre spoke little, looked at new faces and ate a lot. Starting from two soups, from which he chose a la tortue, [turtle,] and kulebyaki and to hazel grouse, he did not miss a single dish and not a single wine, which the butler mysteriously stuck out in a bottle wrapped in a napkin from behind his neighbor’s shoulder, saying or “drey Madeira", or "Hungarian", or "Rhine wine". He placed the first of the four crystal glasses with the count's monogram that stood in front of each device, and drank with pleasure, looking at the guests with an increasingly pleasant expression. Natasha, sitting opposite him, looked at Boris the way thirteen-year-old girls look at a boy with whom they had just kissed for the first time and with whom they are in love. This same look of hers sometimes turned to Pierre, and under the gaze of this funny, lively girl he wanted to laugh himself, not knowing why.
Nikolai sat far from Sonya, next to Julie Karagina, and again with the same involuntary smile he spoke to her. Sonya smiled grandly, but apparently was tormented by jealousy: she turned pale, then blushed and listened with all her might to what Nikolai and Julie were saying to each other. The governess looked around restlessly, as if preparing to fight back if anyone decided to offend the children. The German tutor tried to memorize all kinds of dishes, desserts and wines in order to describe everything in detail in a letter to his family in Germany, and was very offended by the fact that the butler, with a bottle wrapped in a napkin, carried him around. The German frowned, tried to show that he did not want to receive this wine, but was offended because no one wanted to understand that he needed the wine not to quench his thirst, not out of greed, but out of conscientious curiosity.

At the male end of the table the conversation became more and more animated. The colonel said that the manifesto declaring war had already been published in St. Petersburg and that the copy that he himself had seen had now been delivered by courier to the commander-in-chief.
- And why is it difficult for us to fight Bonaparte? - said Shinshin. – II a deja rabattu le caquet a l "Autriche. Je crins, que cette fois ce ne soit notre tour. [He has already knocked down the arrogance of Austria. I am afraid that our turn would not come now.]
The colonel was a stocky, tall and sanguine German, obviously a servant and a patriot. He was offended by Shinshin's words.
“And then, we are a good sovereign,” he said, pronouncing e instead of e and ъ instead of ь. “Then that the emperor knows this. He said in his manifesto that he can look indifferently at the dangers threatening Russia, and that the safety of the empire, its dignity and the sanctity of its alliances,” he said, for some reason especially emphasizing the word “unions”, as if this was the whole essence of the matter.
And with his characteristic infallible, official memory, he repeated the opening words of the manifesto... “and the desire, the sole and indispensable goal of the sovereign: to establish peace in Europe on solid foundations - they decided to now send part of the army abroad and make new efforts to achieve this intention “.

Around the world in eighty days

Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours

Micro paraphrase: The Englishman, on a bet, circumnavigates the earth in 80 days, along the way saves an Indian beauty, fights with the Indians and crosses the ocean on a hijacked steamship, not suspecting that he is being pursued by a detective.

The action takes place in 1872. The division of the text into chapters is conditional.

London, England [ed. ]

Phileas Fogg was a mysterious person. No one knew what this gentleman did, they only knew that he was rich and lonely.

Phileas Fogg- a rich, eccentric Englishman, a tall and handsome gentleman of about forty, solitary, punctual, cold-blooded, unsociable and generous.

Phileas Fogg

Fogg was a member of the London Reform Club. His whole day was scheduled minute by minute; he had not left London for many years, but he knew a lot about the most remote places on earth.

On October 2, 1872, Fogg hired a new servant, the Frenchman Passepartout, who had spent a stormy youth and now dreamed of a quiet, measured life. Having learned about Fogg's pedantry, Passepartout decided that he would be an ideal owner for him.

Jean Passepartout- Fogg’s servant, a Frenchman, a big man with plump lips and curly hair, in his youth he was an acrobat and a fireman, his name translated from French means “crawler”, “dodger”.

Passepartout

That evening, members of the Reform Club discussed the robbery of the Bank of England. The police suspected a distinguished gentleman seen in the bank. Police were sent to all major ports, but the criminal disappeared.

Fogg noticed that the thief was probably already far away, because the world had become so small that one could travel around the world in eighty days. The club members replied that it was impossible to circle the earth during this period due to various unforeseen difficulties.

Then Fogg made a bet with members of the Reform Club that he would travel around the world in eighty days, and bet half of his fortune. He will lose this money if he does not return to the Reform Club on December 21, at eight forty-five minutes in the evening.

Fogg makes a bet with members of the Reform Club

Mr Fogg was ready. In his hands he held the famous railway and steamship directory and Bradshaw's guide, which was to serve him during the trip.

Egypt and the Suez Canal[ed. ]

That same evening, having seized the remaining half of his fortune, Fogg, along with the stunned Passepartout, crossed France and arrived at the Egyptian port of Suez right on schedule.

Police agent Fix, who was on duty in Suez, learned that among the passengers on one of the ferries there was a gentleman whose description was similar to the man seen at the Bank of England, and he suspected Fogg of the robbery.

Fix- a police agent, short and thin, with an intelligent face and attentive eyes, corrosive and tireless, does not doubt his detective abilities.

Police Agent Fix

The agent met Passepartout, who told how quickly they left London and admitted that he did not believe in the bet. Passepartout believed that behind this haste “there was something else hidden.”

Fix meets Passepartout in Suez

Fix was finally convinced that Fogg was a thief. He demanded that a warrant for his arrest be sent to Bombay, and he himself followed Fogg to India on the same ship.

The ship passed the Suez Canal, two days ahead of schedule.

Suez Canal

India [ed. ]

In Bombay, Fix discovered that the warrant for Fogg's arrest had not yet arrived. Passepartout understood that Fogg was not joking and really intended to circle the globe in eighty days.

While walking around Bombay, Passepartout desecrated one of the temples by entering it wearing shoes.

Passepartout in the Bombay Temple

Fix decided to make this incident the reason for his arrest and went to Calcutta separately from the travelers.

Fogg and Passepartout decided to use the railway passing through the whole of India.

By train across India

It turned out that in one place the road was not completed. Riding an elephant through the jungle to the nearest station, the travelers saved the young widow Auda, who, according to ancient Indian custom, was going to be burned at the stake along with her deceased husband, the Rajah.

Passepartout and Fogg ride an elephant

Aouda- a young Indian woman, the daughter of a rich merchant, a widow, a fair-skinned beauty who received a European education, courageous, and not afraid of challenges.

The cunning Passepartout, disguised as a dead rajah, carried the beauty straight out of the burning fire.

The old Raja has come to life! Like a ghost, he rose from his bed, took his young wife in his arms and came down from the fire, enveloped in clouds of smoke that gave him a ghostly appearance.

Passepartout saves Aouda from the fire

It turned out that Auda was orphaned and could no longer remain in India, where she would be found and burned. Fogg undertook to take her to Hong Kong, to a rich relative.

Having spent the two days won earlier to save Auda, Fogg arrived in Calcutta exactly on schedule, on October 25. Right at the station, Passepartout was arrested for desecrating a Bombay temple, and Fogg had to pay a large sum as bail.

Passepartout's trial

To Fix's chagrin, the warrant for Fogg's arrest had not yet reached Calcutta, and the travelers freely set off by boat to Hong Kong. Fix followed them.

From India to Japan[ed. ]

On the ship, Fix renewed his acquaintance with Passepartout. The Frenchman found it strange that this man followed them everywhere. He decided that members of the Reform Club hired Fix “to monitor the correct implementation of the conditions for a trip around the world.”

The steamer was a day late, Fogg missed the boat bound for Yokohama, but found another one departing early in the morning. It turned out that Auda’s relative had moved to Europe. Fogg invited her to go there with him.

Fogg and Auda sail to Hong Kong

While booking cabins, Passepartout learned that the ship would leave for Yokohama not in the morning, but that evening. He did not have time to warn the owner - Fix lured him into an opium den and tried to convince him that Fogg was a thief and he needed to be detained until a warrant came. The faithful Passepartout refused to believe this. Fix got him drunk and slipped him a pipe of opium.

Fix and Passepartout in an opium den

In the morning, Fogg discovered that the ship had sailed to Yokohama without him. Unperturbed, the imperturbable Englishman hired a pilot vessel, the captain of which agreed to take him to Shanghai, where the steamer heading to Yokohama called.

Fogg hires a pilot boat to Shanghai

Fix gained the trust of Fogg and sailed with him and Auda.

Fix meets Fogg

Having encountered a tropical storm on the way, Fogg reached Shanghai and, right at the entrance to the bay, boarded a ship bound for Yokohama.

Tropical storm on the way to Yokohama

Passepartout, meanwhile, in a semi-conscious state, reached the ship on which he was supposed to sail to Japan with Fogg. Having come to his senses, he remembered that he had not warned the owner about the changed departure time, but it was already too late.

In Yokohama, Passepartout, by a miraculous coincidence, met Fogg and Auda and went with them to San Francisco on a large paddle steamer.

On the ship, Passepartout met Fix and beat him, but then they concluded a truce. Fogg left the English colonies. Fix received a warrant, but could no longer arrest him and was interested in the Englishman getting to England as quickly as possible. Fix swore that he would help Fogg in everything, and Passepartout decided not to tell the owner anything.

USA[ed. ]

On December 3, the ship arrived in San Francisco, and in the evening the travelers boarded a train across the North American continent.

Train crossing the North American continent

They had at their disposal dining cars, terrace cars, lounge cars, and coffee shop cars. The only thing missing was the theater cars. But over time they will appear.

Train sleeper car

Auda had long been imbued with tender feelings for Fogg, but he still seemed cold and imperturbable.

A train crossing the endless prairies was attacked by a tribe of bloodthirsty Indians. The passengers began to defend themselves, and the Indian leader climbed into the locomotive and unknowingly pressed the lever that increased the speed of the train.

There was a station with a military fort ahead, and the train had to stop near it, otherwise the Indians would kill all the passengers. Risking his life, Passepartout crawled under the cars and unhooked them from the locomotive, after which he was kidnapped by the escaped Indians.

Passepartout uncouples the carriages from the locomotive

Passepartout resists the Indians

Fogg went for Passepartout and brought him back, but in doing so he lost a lot of time, and the train did not wait for him. Fix saved the situation. He found the owner of the sailing sleigh, the travelers reached New York, but still missed the ship going to Liverpool.

The popular adventure novel by Jules Verne was written in 1872 and immediately gained great fame in the literary world.

The main characters of the novel are the Englishman Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout.

The narrative begins with a bet between Fogg and his club mates. The essence of the bet is that the Englishman will be able to travel around the world, which will last no more than 80 days, using the transport that is in force at that time. The road is shared with the eccentric Englishman by his reliable servant. The road lies towards the east.

Simultaneously with the start of the trip around the world, a daring robbery occurs in England. Police inspector Fix suspects Fogg of robbery and rushes after the travelers.

Thus, on the way, Fogg and his servant, in addition to natural phenomena and various adventures, are given a lot of trouble by Mr. Fix.

The investigator is cunning and treacherous. Considering our main characters to be villains, he tries to gain their trust and tries to make friends with Passepartout, who, together with his master, are on their way to Bombay on a ship.

The next point of travel, according to the heroes’ plan, should be Calcutta. But it is impossible to travel by rail due to faulty tracks. Friends ride on elephants. The journey is not without dangers and adventures. In the jungle, Fogg and Passepartout save the girl Auda from imminent terrible reprisal. She should be burned along with her late husband. Passepartout finds a cunning way out of a dangerous situation, but everyone has to flee.

Do not forget about Fix, who follows on the heels of brave travelers and every time strives to put them in prison. But, thanks to the wisdom and intelligence of Mr. Fogg, the friends manage to move on, despite all the difficulties. Our company still has a visit to fabulous Singapore, unknown China and amazing Japan ahead.

From Japan, our heroes head to San Francisco, from which they need to get to New York. Traveling across North America also involves a huge number of dangerous and curious adventures. On the way there are herds of bison that block the road, in one of the states the train is attacked by Indians, there is a destroyed bridge and Mormons. Finally, the heroes get to New York, but the ship to Europe has already left. Again Fogg's ingenuity comes to the rescue and the journey continues on a wheeled ship. Adventures and surprises also continue, because of which Fogg and Passepartout had to visit Dublin and still get to Liverpool. But Fix is already here and takes Fogg into custody. Fortunately, justice has triumphed - the thief was recently detained in England.

Friends come to London, but they are only one day late, which means the bet is lost. Fogg is almost ruined, but during the journey he and Auda fall in love with each other. Having invited a church official to officiate at the wedding, the friends realize that the day has been won by moving towards the sun - and this is a victory in the bet.

Fogg and Auda got married. Fogg wins the bet and finds love, and the winnings are divided between the faithful servant and the policeman.