Around the World in Eighty Days (Oxford World's Classics)

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David Tennant starred as Phileas Fogg in a 2021 television adaptation, Around the World in 80 Days. [34] Phileas Fogg is a wealthy English gentleman living a solitary life in London. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives modestly and carries out his habits with mathematical precision. He is a member of the Reform Club, where he spends the best part of his days. Having dismissed his valet for bringing him shaving water at a temperature slightly lower than expected, Fogg hires Frenchman Jean Passepartout as a replacement. Travel Around the World in 80 days". Around the World Tours. Archived from the original on 14 April 2021 . Retrieved 8 January 2022. In 2009, twelve celebrities performed a relay version of the journey for the BBC Children in Need charity appeal. TrueScans of Around the World in Eighty Days; Philadelphia – Porter & Coates, 1873". Truescans.com. Archived from the original on 3 May 2013 . Retrieved 13 January 2013.

The steamer arrives in Bombay two days ahead of schedule, but the arrest warrant has not yet arrived. While waiting for the train that will take them across India from Bombay to Calcutta, Passepartout wanders off into a Hindu temple, hoping to see some of the city's sights before they rush off again. He does not realize that because he is a Christian, he is forbidden to enter; in addition, he enters it with shoes on, which is also not allowed. He narrowly escapes the wrath of the priests and makes it to the train station in time.In 1956, Michael Anderson directed a film adaptation starring David Niven and Cantinflas. The film won five Oscars, including Academy Award for Best Picture Phileas Fogg is an upstanding English gentleman who spends his days playing whist, a card game, with his friends at the Reform Club, and spends his nights alone in his large upscale townhome on Saville Row in London. Fogg has no wife and no children and mostly keeps to himself. An air of mystery surrounds Fogg wherever he goes because of his extreme reticence. He keeps his thoughts and his heart well hidden. The next day, Fogg realizes that Passepartout is missing, and that the steamer has sailed without them. He hires a sailor to take them to Shanghai, where they can catch the steamer that will sail to San Francisco before it makes its stop in Yokohama. Aouda is with him, since it appears the family member she knew in Hong Kong moved away. Fix, posing as a friend, accompanies them. A storm delays them, and they make it to Shanghai just as the steamer is pulling out of the harbor.

In Which It Is Proved that Phileas Fogg Has Gained Nothing From His Journey Around the World Unless It Be Happiness Jules VerneWilliam Butcher, ed. and trans., Around the World in Eighty Days, Oxford World's Classics (1995, 1999). Mark Brown adapted the book for a five-actor stage production in 2001. It has been performed in New York, Canada, England, South Africa, and Bangladesh. [27] That morning while playing whist at the club, Fogg and his friends overhear news that a robber disguised as a gentleman has stolen 55,000 pounds from the Bank of England. One of the members, Andrew Stuart, remarks that the robber is probably long gone, since the world is so large and there are plenty of places to hide. This comment piques Fogg’s interest. Fogg says the world “was once” large, but it is no longer so big. He says that it is now possible to travel across the world in eighty days due to modern advances in transportation. Fogg’s friends scoff at him, which emboldens him to make a daring wager: He bets 20,000 pounds, all the money he has in the bank, that he can travel around the world in eighty days. The men accept his wager and agree to find him at the Reform Club, in the same room, at the same time, eighty days later, on December 21 at 8:45 p.m. or they will collect the bet.

Flightfox created a trip, "Around the World in 80 Hours", to see if flight experts could find cheap flights following the same path as described in the book. [39] The online travel company then wrote a fictional eBook based on the results of the contest. [40] Worlds of Fun, an amusement park in Kansas City, Missouri, was conceived using the novel as its theme. [41] In 1894, George Griffith carried out a publicity stunt on behalf of C. Arthur Pearson by circumnavigating the world in 65 days, from 12 March to 16 May. [13] [14] The tale of his journey was told in Pearson's Weekly in 14 parts between 2 June and 1 September 1894, bearing the title "How I Broke the Record Round the World". [14] [15] It was later published in book form in 2008 under the title Around the World in 65 Days. [15]In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One as Master and the Other as Servant Jules Verne Jules Verne – Around the World in Eighty Days – Episode guide". Bbc.co.uk. 1 January 1970. Archived from the original on 2 January 2016 . Retrieved 23 November 2015.