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| original title = Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
| image = Ca. 1870 pictorial world map - Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours par Jules Verne̜ coverpage.png
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| author = Jules Verne
| central theme =
| elevator pitch = A man who has bet half his fortune that he can travel around the world in eighty days is chased by a police inspector who thinks he's a criminal.
| genre =
| publication date = January 30, 1873
| source page exists = yes
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One of the all-time great adventure novels and certainly the most famous non-science fiction one by [[Jules Verne]], '''Around the World in Eighty Days''' is about the eventful attempt by Phineas Fogg to [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|travel the world in eighty days]], along with his valet Jean Passepartout.
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The book has numerous adaptations, first on stage and then on film and TV. The more noted works are:
* [[Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)|A major 1956 film]] starring David Niven and [[Shirley MacLaine]] which includes the
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* A famous [[Furry Fandom|furry]] 1981 animated version from Spain, ''[[Around the World with Willy Fog]]''.
* A 1989 TV mini-series starring [[Pierce Brosnan]], which critics complained went at far too leisurely a pace for a story about a race against time.
* A famous 1989 TV travel documentary starring [[
* A recent{{when}} [[Comic Relief]] series featured a celebrity relay version of this trip.
* [[Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film)|A 2004 film]] starring [[Jackie Chan]] and Steve Coogan, mostly working on [[Rule of Funny]] and (being a Chan film) slapstick martial arts. It is full of cameos by [[Historical Fiction|historical figures]].
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* [[Stop Helping Me!]]
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* [[Adventure]]
* [[The Bet]]: Circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Keep in mind that the book is set during the nineteenth century, before the invention and use of commercial aircraft for traveling.
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* [[Cosmic Plaything]]: Passepartout, whom Verne seems to delight in embarrassing by seemingly out-of-nowhere situations.
* [[Criminal Doppelganger]]: Phileas Fogg is wrongly pursued around the globe by [[Inspector Javert|Detective Fix]] because, in addition to the suspicious circumstances surrounding his sudden departure, he answers to the description of the gentleman who robbed the Bank of England.
* [[
▲* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Aouda in her debut in the book. However after her rescue, Aouda more than pulls her own weight in the story. For examples, when their train is attacked by Indians, Aouda immediately gets a gun and starts shooting along with her companions and of course, she saves Fogg's future at the climax of the story.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: Early English translations sometimes changed Fogg's first name to Phineas.
* [[Epic Race]]: Possibly the [[Trope Codifier]].
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Passepartout does not tell his master about Fix or the fact that Fogg is suspected of bank robbery because...uh...
** Somewhat justified actually. He barely knows anything about Fogg, since he basically was hired the day before the the trip around the world, so there is enough reasonable doubt in his mind Fix might actually be right, hence the delay.
* [[In Which a Trope Is Described]]: Verne's chapter titles.▼
* [[Injun Country]]
* [[Inspector Javert]]: Mr. Fix.
▲* [[In Which a Trope Is Described]]: Verne's chapter titles.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Fogg's carriage is noted as running over two dogs on his way to the Reform Club, an inexplicably distasteful piece of writing.
* [[Technology Marches On|Mapmaking Marches On]]: The climactic twist was rendered impossible by the institution of the International Date Line in the early 20th century.
** While not defined, it was effectively still there, presenting something of a [[Plot Hole]]. For the ending twist to work, Fogg would have had to never notice the date (or day of the week) all through his trip across America, while looking at train and ship schedules.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Passepartout is French for "a key that open all locks"
** Furthermore, the name sounds a mighty lot like "Passport", which is inseparable from the modern
*** It gets even better; the literal translation of the name is "Goes Everywhere."
*** He admits himself the name is fitting, as he went through several jobs in his past.
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* [[Quintessential British Gentleman]]: Phileas Fogg of course!
* [[Race Against the Clock]]: One of the most triumphant examples of this trope.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Phileas Fogg (Blue) is
* [[Rescue Romance]]: Phileas Fogg rescues Aouda from death by suttee.
* [[Right
* [[The Savage Indian]]: A band of Sioux waylay Fogg's train.
* [[Schedule Fanatic]]: Phileas Fogg {{spoiler|until the end, where he misses a key detail and decides to heck with schedule fanaticism}}.
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** In fact, Fogg bets half his fortune (20,000 pounds) and takes the other half with him. So, [[Lampshade Hanging|as Verne himself notes]] [[In Which a Trope Is Described|in a chapter heading]], he's just about even afterwards.
*** Note that 40,000 quid at the time is equivalent to roughly US$13 million as of now, on a gold price alone. The purchase power parity would yield even higher amount. Spending 6 megabucks in just 80 days would smooth the things up quite a bit.
*** Still, even though he stands to make an incredible amount of money or lose everything, it's not about the money. It's about the adventure, and Fogg's
* [[Stiff Upper Lip]]: Phileas Fogg's basic personality until Aouda's heartfelt proposal at his darkest hour finally makes let himself go with love.
* [[Super OCD]]: Phileas Fogg to the extreme. He fired a previous servant because of a very slight variation in the temperature of his shaving water. {{spoiler|He stops having this in the ending.}}
** Fogg's [[Mysterious Past]] and narration hinting that his super-ordered lifestyle stems from his chaotic early life may suggest that it's actually a form of PTSD.
* [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist]]: Fix to a degree. He might be considered the bridge between [[Inspector Javert]] and this, being comical like a [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist]] is, but also unethical like an [[Inspector Javert]].
* [["There and Back" Story]]: The novel is [[The Big Race]] and a [[Race Against the Clock]] on a global scale, with the participants tasked to circumnavigate the globe from London in under eighty days.
* [[Wacky Americans Have Wacky Names]]: Phileas Fogg challenges Col. Stamp W. Proctor to a duel.
* [[You Fail Religious Studies Forever]]: Aouda is repeatedly described as "Parsi"<ref>the descendants of Iranians who fled to India from the religious persecution by Muslims</ref>, which would automatically make her Zoroastrian. But suttee is a purely Hindu custom!
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