The Round the world tour in eighty days

the Round the world tour in eighty days is a Roman adventures, written in 1872 by Jules Verne.

Argument

The novel tells the race around the world of an English gentleman, Phileas Fogg, which forwarded the bet there in 80 days. It is accompanied by Jean Passepartout, his French servant. The whole of the novel is a skilful mixture between account of voyage (traditional for Jules Verne) and scientific data as that used for the bounce of the fall of the novel.

This extraordinary Voyage is made possible thanks to the revolution of the Transport S which marks the 19th century and the beginnings of the industrial revolution. The appearance of new means of transport (Railroad, marine with vapor) and the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 shorten the distances, or at least the time necessary to traverse them.

The novel

History

The history begins with London, the October 2nd 1872. Like every evening, Phileas Fogg goes to the Reform Club. By dividing into sheets the newspaper, he learns that it is possible to achieve the Round the world tour in 80 days. Indeed, an article of the Morning-Chronicle affirms that with the opening of a new section of Railroad in India, it is from now on possible to make it tower of the Ground in 80 days, according to the following route:

A sharp discussion begins on this article. Phileas Fogg bets 20.000 books with his/her colleagues of Reform Club which it will succeed in completing this Round the world tour in 80 days. It leaves immediately, taking along with him Jean Passepartout, his new manservant. It leaves London with 20:45 on October 2nd, and must thus be of return to its club at the latest per same hour, 80 days after, that is to say on December 21st, 1872 with 20:45 local time.

Phileas Fogg is a maniac of the hour, which likes to act in an exact and precise way. For him, “ the unforeseen one does not exist ”. But the voyage will be sown obstacles and hitch.

The bet and the departure of Fogg do the one of the newspapers. The police force wonders whether Philéas Fogg is the famous robber who comes from dévaliser the Banque of England and which would seek to escape. The Fix inspector leaves to his research, and will not cease of the courser in all the crossed countries.

Philéas Fogg and Passepartout leave London in the train and use then various means of transport. In India, they save Mrs Aouda, a young widow who was to be burned alive like wants it the habit of the Satî , during a ceremony dedicated to the goddess Kâlî.

HongKong, misses Fogg the steamer but Passepartout embarks. They end up being found a few days later with the Japan, in Yokohama, in a circus where Passepartout had engaged as acrobat.

When Philéas Fogg arrives at San Francisco, it falls in full electoral effervescence, is made an enemy, the colonel Stamp W. Proctor, takes the train, finds there the colonel with whom it will fight when the train is attacked by the Sioux. Passepartout is made prisoner but Fogg releases it, helped by some other passengers. Pressed by time, Philéas Fogg borrows a steamer to arrive in time to England.

As soon as it unloads in England, Fix stops it before slackening it when it discovers its error. Having missed the train and thinking of having lost its bet, Philéas Fogg returns at his place and declares its love with Mrs Aouda. Passepartout then points out to him that it gained twenty-four hours in its tour. Philéas Fogg goes to Reform Club, it won its bet!

Characters

Main characters

  • Phileas Fogg : Phlegmatic, richissime and enigmatic London gentleman. It leads an existence méticuleusement regulated spending its days to the Reform Club with reading the newspaper and playing Whist.
  • Jean Passepartout : domestic French of Phileas Fogg which accompanies it in its round the world tour.
  • Fix : English police officer who will continue Phileas Fogg in all the crossed countries, believer who he is the author of a flight of bank.

Complete listing of the characters

  • Lord Albermale
  • Mrs. Aouda
  • William Batulcar
  • Captain John Bunsby
  • Sir Francis Cromarty
  • Samuel Fallentin
  • Fix
  • Thomas Flanagan
  • Phileas Fogg
  • Forster
  • James Forster
  • Elder William Hitch
  • Jejeeh
  • Kamerfield
  • Kiouni
  • Lord Longsferry
  • Mandiboy
  • Mudge
  • Judge Obadiah
  • Oysterpuf
  • Passepartout
  • Colonel Stamp W. Proctor
  • Gauthier Ralph
  • Reverend Décimus Smith
  • Captain Andrew Speedy
  • Andrew Stuart
  • John Sullivan
  • Reverend Samuel Wilson

Topics approached in the novel

  • importance of the honor and the word given (that one also finds in Michel Strogoff )
  • the eccentricity and flegmatism (especially for the character of Phileas Fogg)
  • Culture of the people met (in particular the crowned direction of the sacrifice of Mrs Aouda before it is saved in extremis by Passepartout)
  • Mesure of the distances to achieve in a time limited (considerations held on the “reduction” in dimensions of the Earth)

When yesterday becomes today

During this voyage, Phileas Fogg and Passepartout will employ “ all the means of transport, Paquebot S, railways, car S, Yacht S, buildings of trade, Traîneau X, elephant. ”

But finally, if they manage to hold their bet, it is that while travelling towards the is, they gained a Jour on their calendar, without realizing some. The string is a little large besides: how a man also organized as regards schedules it did not realize that it had gained one day starting from San Francisco?

Edgar Poe had already benefitted from this situation in a news entitled the three Sundays week . Jules Verne quotes it in a communication on the topic of the Méridien S and the Calendrier, published in April 1873 by the Société of geography of Paris. The question was to know where was located the Date-line, the Méridien where on a side, we are today, and other, still yesterday.

At the XXe century, the Italian writer Umberto Eco also used this curiosity in his novel the Island of the day of before . This novel tells the history of a man who makes shipwreck on an island of the Pacific located at the exact Longitude which separates yesterday from today on the Earth.

England, adulterating opium

Chapter XIX is a judgment without call of England which sells opium to the Chinese, in spite of the efforts of the Chinese government for éradiquer this problem. On this subject, to see Wars of opium.

Adaptations

Cinema

Feature-length films

Cartoon

  • the Round the world tour in 80 Days (1972), of the studio australian Air International Programs (original title: Around the World in 80 days ).
  • the Round the world tour in 80 Days (1981), of the Spanish studio BRB Internacional (original title: Vuelta Al Mundo de Willy Fog ).

Television

Theater

  • 2006 : the Round the world tour in 80 Days adaptation of Sebastien Azzopardi and Sacha Danino. Spectacle created on May 10th, 2006 in Lucernaire in Paris, in a setting in scene of Sebastien Azzopardi, with Yan Mercoeur, Gilles-Vincent Kapps, Alexandre Guilbaud, Romain Duck and Elisa Sergeant or Réjane Lefoul. Price Charles Oulmont 2006 (Company Sebastien Azzopardi), nomination at the Price Raimu of the Comedy 2006 (Put in Scene), Price of the Public to the Festival of Angers 2007 .

Video game

See too

The book in original version

Jules Verne, the Round the world tour in eighty days, series extraordinary Voyages , J. Hetzel, Paris, 1873.
A reproduction of this edition is consultable on the site Gallica, the numeric library of the National library of France.

Internal bond

External bonds

  • This book under several formats on Ebooks free and free
  • This free book in audiobook read by volunteers of LibriVox
  • audio.com Literature: Integral reading of downloadable work to the format mp3
  • analysis of the novel, by Lionel Dupuy

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