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Around the World in Eighty Days is, as the title suggests, the story of a journey around the world. The focus throughout is on the remarkable journey by Phileas Fogg and his companions. The places visited, the people encountered, the customs and cultures noted, the scenery observed—these make up the fabric of this work.
The situation at the beginning is twofold: For Fogg’s newly hired valet, it is an opportunity to work for a man who leads a steady, stable life. Passepartout believes that his new master never goes anywhere except to the Reform Club. Fogg does seem to have an extremely routine existence (even the number of steps from his dwelling to the club is known). He frequents the club, reading The Times and playing whisk with his acquaintances: “His daily habits were quite open to observation; but whatever he did was so exactly the same thing that he had always done before, that the wits of the curious were fairly puzzled.”
This routine is altered drastically when a news item about a bank robber leads Fogg to propose a wager that he can circle the earth in eighty days. He establishes with his whist partners a wager of twenty thousand pounds, and he announces that he will depart that very evening. Passepartout’s expectations of tranquillity are shattered as he is set to work making preparations. The only luggage is a large carpetbag, into which are placed a few articles of clothing and toiletries, as well as a large sum of money in the form of negotiable bank notes. The journey begins with the two boarding the Dover-to-Calais train on Wednesday, October 2, 1872, at 8:45 p.m., exactly one and three-quarters hours after making the bet.
In addition to Fogg and Passepartout, the protagonists, there are two antagonists. Fix, an English private detective, jumps to the false conclusion that Fogg is the bank robber. In Suez, his expectations are twofold: the arrival of Fogg on board the steamer Mongolia, en route from Brindisi to Bombay, and receipt of a warrant for Fogg’s arrest. When the latter does not come, he joins Fogg and Passepartout as a traveling companion. At Bombay, he takes note of Passepartout’s offense against a temple.
The true antagonist, however, is time—or, more specifically, delay. The train ride across India ends abruptly when the track runs out; the long section through the interior, contrary to an earlier statement in The Times, has not yet been built. The ever-resourceful Fogg buys an elephant and hires its former owner as a guide. Together with Passepartout and a British military man met on the train, they begin the long, treacherous ride. En route they rescue a woman named Aouda from her husband’s funeral pyre, and she joins them for the remainder of the trip. They arrive in Calcutta by train on time, only to be arrested (an arrangement made by Fix). Paying the bail, they sail to Hong Kong on the Rangoon, which Fix has secretly boarded. Delayed by weather, they nevertheless arrive in time to catch the Carnatic, which has also been delayed.
In Hong Kong, Fix contrives to delay Fogg by getting Passepartout intoxicated on drink and opium. Only the servant reaches the Carnatic before it sails for Yokohama. Fogg, in turn, charters the pilot boat Tankadere for Shanghai, which must ride out a typhoon before it reaches its destination. Meanwhile, Passepartout has arrived alone and penniless in Yokohama. Resourceful in his own way, he joins a troupe of actors as a clown and is reunited finally with the others after they have caught the Rangoon to Yokohama. Fix now has a warrant which he cannot use until he is again on British soil. All sail from Yokohama aboard the American steamer General Grant.
During the journey across America, the group is accosted by Colonel Stamp Proctor and diverted by a political rally in San Francisco; the train from Oakland is delayed for hours by a herd of buffalo; a Mormon diverts Passepartout; Fogg and Proctor begin a duel which is interrupted by an Indian raid;
Mr. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy man living in London who is part of the Reform Club, an elite social organization. He has recently hired a new domestic servant, a Frenchman named Passepartout. 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. Waiting for Fogg at the Suez Canal, where he will take a steamer to Bombay, India, is a detective named Fix; apparently, Fogg has been accused of robbing the Bank of England. The steamer arrives in Bombay two days ahead of schedule, but the arrest warrant has not yet arrived. While waiting for the train that will take them across India from Bombay to Calcutta, Passepartout wanders off into a Hindu temple.On the train, Fogg and Passepartout meet Sir Francis Cromarty, an Englishman who lives in India. The group, now including Sir Francis, starts off on the elephant, and after camping for a night they encounter a group of tribal Indians preparing to sacrifice a young woman whose husband, a prince, has just died. Fogg decides they need to use the time they have gained to try and save her, and after a number of failed efforts Passepartout disguises himself as the dead prince's corpse and manages to jump up and grab Aouda before they can throw her on the funeral pyre. They make it to Calcutta, but are immediately arrested. At first they think it is because of what happened with Aouda, but actually, Fix has gotten them detained because of Passepartout breaking the law back in Bombay by entering the Hindu temple. Fogg bails them out with a large sum of money and they get on the steamer to Hong Kong. A storm delays them in reaching Hong Kong, but thankfully the steamer to Yokohama, Japan will not be leaving until the following evening, since it needs time for repairs. Fix decides that it is time to get Passepartout on his side, and takes him to a tavern to tell him whom his master really is. Passepartout is ever loyal, though, and does not believe that Fogg is the robber. Determined to keep Fogg in Hong Kong until he can arrest him, Fix gives Passepartout a dose of opium and he passes out for a long time, thus unable to notify his master of what someone at the port told him: that the steamer would be leaving form Yokohama in the morning instead of the following evening. The next day, Fogg realizes that Passepartout is missing, and that the steamer has sailed without them. Aouda is with him, since it appears the family member she knew in Hong Kong moved away. Fix, posing as a friend, accompanies them. A storm delays them, and they make it to Shanghai just as the steamer is pulling out of the harbor. The train takes them through the great American wilderness, and they encounter a delay when they come upon a bridge that is too weak to hold the train's weight.
A bigger problem comes further along in the trip, when a tribe of Sioux Indians attacks the train. They reach an army fort and the soldiers fight off the Native Americans, but not before they kidnap Passepartout and a few of the other train passengers. Fogg goes after him with an army of soldiers, whom he promises a reward to for their aid. It takes him a long while to return, and the train leaves without them; Aouda and Fix stay behind to wait. Eventually he comes back with Passepartout, safe. To catch up with the train, they take a sledge (a sleigh) across the snowy prairie to the next train station.
The problem is, going this fast they will never have enough fuel to make it; Fogg offers to buy the ship from the captain for a huge amount of money so that he can tear it apart and burn bits of it to keep up their speed. They burn enough to make it to Queenstown, Ireland, where they take a train to Dublin and mail boats to Liverpool, allowing them to make ti there faster. As soon as they reach English territory, however, Fix arrests and detains Fogg for allegedly robbing the Bank of England. It now seems like there is no way for Fogg to reach London in time to win his bet.
Soon, however, Fix realizes that the real bank robber was arrested three days before; breathless, he runs to free Fogg and tell him to get to London as quickly as possible. Fogg, Aouda, and Passepartout hire an express train to get them to the British capital as quickly as possible. But they do not make it in time—they arrive in the London station a few minutes too late.
Once there, however, Passepartout realizes while talking to him that the following day is actually Sunday; they had gained a day when crossing the International Date Line. That meant that that day was Saturday, the day Fogg had to return to London in order to win his wager. Fogg rushes to the Reform Club and arrives just in time to win the bet and earn back his fortune. He believes that the greatest thing about taking the trip, however, was that he found Aouda.