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Around The World In 80 Days - Jules VerneUnabridged Audio Book On 7 Audio Cds Around The World In 80 Days - By Jules Verne, The Complete Unabridged Audio Book on 7 standard audio cds ( playable in any cd player & fully digitally remastered )Plot Summary The story starts in London October 2, 1872. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy British gentleman who lives unmarried in solitude at 24 Saville Row. Despite his wealth, which is of unknown origin, Mr. Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematically precisely. As is noted in the first chapter, very little can be said about Mr. Fogg s social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed his former valet, James Foster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 degrees Fahrenheit rather than the regular 86, Mr. Fogg hires the Frenchman Passepartout, of around 30 years of age, as a replacement.Later that day in the Reform Club, he 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.This calculation does not take into account practical matters like trouble finding transportation, but Fogg is sure that with his superbly calculative mind he can actually do it. He accepts a wager for £20,000 [equal to £2,500,000 today] from his fellow club members, which he ...
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