Around the World in Eighty Days is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, which first appeared in 1872 as a serial in the newspaper Le Temps and was published as a book the following year. It follows the English gentleman Phileas Fogg, who wagers that he can circle the globe in eighty days, and his French servant Passepartout, as they travel by steamship, train, elephant and sledge. They are chased by a detective, Fix, who mistakenly believes Fogg to be a bank robber. The story was inspired by the opening of the Suez Canal, the completion of the American transcontinental railroad and other advances that made world travel quicker. It has been adapted many times, notably in a 1956 film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Before and after
- 27 September 1871Birth of Grazia Deledda
- October 1871Schliemann begins digging at Hisarlik
- 18 October 1871Mudan Incident of 1871
- 24 October 1871Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871
- 1872Publication of Around the World in Eighty Days
- from 1872 to 1878Kulturkampf
- 1872Impression, Sunrise
- 1872Founding of Tokyo National Museum
- 1872Founding of Paris Institute of Political Studies
More in Art, literature & culture
- 10 August 1793Construction of Louvre Museum
- 17 November 1869Construction of Suez Canal
- 1886Statue of Liberty
- 31 March 1889Construction of Eiffel Tower
- 1894Radio
- c. 1900sRise of modernism
The era
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