Record Added: 3/6/2016 Series The World's Best Reading Setting  France Topic Adult Fiction, Classics Publisher Readers Digest ISBN 0895772949 Year 1988 Age Adult Pages 205 Description Light green. dark green sp
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The story is about an eccentric Englishman named Phileas Fogg who makes a twenty thousand pound bet with five of his rich country club friends to travel around the world in eighty days with his trusty servant Passepartout, a Frenchman. Along the way they have to overcome many obstacles. Fogg spends most of his fortune overcoming these obstacles and if they don't win the bet he will be ruined. There are some things, however, that even money can't overcome, and several times Fogg is faced with a moral decision that if he pursues the right thing, to do so will significantly set him back on time.
Their travels take them through England, Paris, the Suez Canal, Egypt, India, Hong Kong, Japan, America, and Ireland. In India they rescue a princess who stays with them throughout the rest of their journey and becomes a love interest for Fogg. There is also another subplot involving a bank robbery in England where 55 thousand pounds have been stolen, and Fogg is considered to be the main suspect. A detective named Fix is assigned to follow Fogg and to arrest him once he sets foot on English territory. |
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