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Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days
is a classic
adventure novel
by the
French writer
Jules Verne
, published in 1873. In the story,
Phileas Fogg
of
London
and his newly employed
French
valet
Passepartout
attempt to
circumnavigate
the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £ million today) set by his friends at the
Reform Club
. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.
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