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de VERNE, JULES
de VERNE, JULES
Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, BurlingtonGardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of themost noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention...Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by theFrench writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, PhileasFogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartoutattempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager setby his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.The technological innovations of the 19th century had opened thepossibility of rapid circumnavigation and the prospect fascinatedVerne and his readership. It was another notable mark in the end of an age of exploration andthe start of an age of fully global tourism that could be enjoyed inrelative comfort and safety. It sparked the imagination that anyonecould sit down, draw up a schedule, buy tickets and travel around theworld, a feat previously reserved for only the most heroic and hardyof adventurers.