Around the World in Eighty Days 줄거리

The story in 7 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A precise gentleman makes an impossible wager

   The story opens at No. 7 Savile Row, where Phileas Fogg lives by the clock. He is rich, silent and mysterious. Nobody knows how he earned his money. Each day he eats at the same table of the Reform Club, reads the papers and plays whist. He gives his winnings to charity. He has no wife and no close friends. Even his walks follow a count of steps.

   One evening his five whist partners talk about a robbery at the Bank of England, where fifty-five thousand pounds has vanished. Andrew Stuart says the world is big enough for a thief to hide in. Fogg answers in a low voice that it used to be. The Daily Telegraph has just printed a schedule that adds up to eighty days, now that a new stretch of Indian railway has opened. Stuart says storms, wrecks and train accidents spoil the sum. Fogg says all of that is counted.

   Stuart bets four thousand pounds that it cannot be done, and the others join him. Fogg stakes twenty thousand pounds deposited at Baring’s, which is half of what he owns. He tells them there is no such thing as the unforeseen. He must be back in the club at a quarter to nine on Saturday, December 21. The train to Dover leaves that very night, and he finishes the hand before he goes.

   A firm plan, once spoken aloud, can turn a card table joke into a life changing risk.

2. 2

   A restless servant meets a master like a machine

   That same morning Fogg dismisses his valet for bringing shaving water at eighty-four degrees instead of eighty-six.

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3. 3

   A detective mistakes a gentleman for a thief

   News of the wager makes Fogg famous.

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4. 4

   Across India by train, elephant and rescue

   The steamer reaches Bombay two days early, and Fogg enters the gain in his notebook.

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5. 5

   Courts, storms and a lost servant at Hong Kong

   At Calcutta a policeman meets the party at the station.

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6. 6

   Passepartout alone in Japan, then reunited

   Passepartout wakes aboard the steamer, hungry and ashamed, with no money and no master.

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7. 7

   Crossing America at top speed and risk

   San Francisco greets the party with a street brawl over an election.

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