on 2nd October and, in order to win his bet, must return to the club by the same time on 21st December, 80 days later.īefore opening this volume for the first time my only notion of the storyline came from watching the wonderfully debonair David Niven play Phileas Fogg in the 1956 Academy Award-winning epic adventure-comedy, Around the World in 80 Days (there have been other screen adaptions, too). He departs from London by train at 8:45 p.m.
Having made a somewhat rash £20,000 wager with fellow members of this elitist institution, he sets off with Jean Passepartout, his newly hired valet, to prove it is possible to circumnavigate the world in 80 days. 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, and is a familiar face at London’s famous Reform Club. This slim novel tells the tale of an enigmatic English gentleman, Phileas Fogg, who resides at No. Number 11 in the series, which also included the popular fictional titles Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, was the highly acclaimed 1873 classic, Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours ( Around the World in Eighty Days). Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas.”īetween 18, the French writer, Jules Verne, wrote a sequence of fifty-four novels known collectively as the ‘Voyages extraordinaires’ (‘Extraordinary Voyages’), the purpose of which, according to Verne’s editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel, was “to outline all the geographical, geological, physical and astronomical knowledge amassed by modern science and to recount, in an entertaining and picturesque format…the history of the universe.” THOUGHTS ON: Around the World in Eighty Days
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