W 80 dni dookola swiata - Around the world in 80 days (Polish)

W 80 dni dookola swiata - Around the world in 80 days (Polish)

Language

Polish

Descriptions

by Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873.

In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English gentleman living in solitude. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision.

One day Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. He accepts a wager for £20,000 (equal to about £1.6 million today) from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days. Accompanied by his servant, he leaves London by train at 8:45 P.M. on Wednesday, October 2, 1872, and is due back at in London at the same time 80 days later, Saturday, December 21, 1872. 

Ages 8 and up; 152 Pages; Paperback

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$ 17.45