Around the World In 80 Days

Mr. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy man living in London who is part of the Reform Club, an elite social organization. While at the Reform Club, he makes a bet with the other club members that it is possible to go around the world by train and steamer in just eighty days, and that he himself can do it. Since 20,000 pounds are at stake, he fetches Passepartout, his domestic servant, and they head off right away to circumnavigate the globe. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed books.