Around the World in Eighty Days
Author: first_name: Jules
last_name: Verne
Language: English
Year: 1872

<i>Around the World in Eighty Days</i> (French: <i>Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours</i>) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first 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 set by his friends at the Reform Club. (Summary from Wikipedia)