Around the World in 80 Days
by Jules Verne
Verne's ugliest "trip" is a hasty world tour with a mention of a gentleman's club! Mr. Phileas Fogg, a master of truth, makes the strangest bet ever made at a whistle table – that he will travel the world in 80 days. This news affects Jean Paspartaut, once a traveling minstrel, bareback rider, funambulist, gymnast and firefighter, now turned into a valet to Mr. Fogg with a quiet and well-arranged life expectancy. For the next 80 days, their lives are nothing more than quiet or well-arranged. Jules Verne preferred to call himself the author of "extraordinary journeys". This is an extraordinary journey, from Fogg's announcement to Paspartout that they "must go to Dover in ten minutes" to his victorious return to the Reform Club at the last second!
