Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in Eighty Days is one of the funniest and most exciting works of Jules Verne, considered a pioneer of science fiction, since in many of his books he anticipates imagining progress for humanity. The novel was published by installments in the newspaper Le Temps, from November 6 to December 22, 1872, the same year the action is set. Later, it would be published in its entirety in a book, in 1873, and immediately translated and published in innumerable editions. The book tells the adventures of the British Phileas Fogg and his assistant Jean Passepartout, also called Passepartout in Spanish, and they constitute one of the most captivating stories produced by the human imagination. The phlegmatic and lonely British gentleman Phileas Fogg will abandon his life of scrupulous discipline to fulfill a bet with his colleagues at the Reform Club, in which he will risk half his fortune by committing himself to go around the world in just eighty days using the means available in the second half of the 19th century and following the project published in the Morning Chronicle, his daily reading newspaper.