Around the World in Eighty Days
80天环游地球
Jules Verne
儒勒·凡尔纳
Jules Verne’s classic novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, is a true prototype for the adventure story. This new illustrated version captures Phileas Fogg’s thrilling race around the globe in a fresh, modern, and original way. Will he, and his manservant Passepartout, beat the clock and win their bet? Francesca Rossi’s splendid illustrations bring the tale’s many landscapes and vivid atmosphere to life.
Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne’s hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of a notorious bank robber.
One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.
《八十天环游地球》是法国作家儒勒·凡尔纳创作的长篇小说，是其代表作之一。
小说起因于英国绅士福格与朋友打的一个赌：要在80天内环游地球一周回到伦敦。随后，他与仆人克服了路途中的艰难险阻，路经地中海、红海、印度洋、太平洋、大西洋，游历印度、新加坡、日本、美国等地，最后返回伦敦，一路上福克机智、勇敢，表现出十足的绅士派头。
由于受到儒勒·凡尔纳小说《八十天环游地球》的鼓舞，许多冒险旅行家为打破环球旅行的纪录，竞相出发，开展环球旅行竟赛。人们相继打破环球旅行纪录。
儒勒·加布里埃尔·凡尔纳（Jules Gabriel Verne，1828.2.8－1905.3.24），19世纪法国科幻小说家，被誉为“科幻小说之父”。他最初学法律，1863年出版了他的第一部小说《气球上的五星期》，获得成功，从此一发不可收拾。凡尔纳总共创作了六十多部长篇小说和几个短篇小说集，还有几十个剧本，和其它各类作品。主要作品有《海底两万里》、《八十天环游地球》、《从地球到月球》、《神秘岛》、《格兰特船长的儿女》、《地心游记》等。
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IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER, THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS MAN
Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron—at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.
Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the Artisan's Association, or the Institution of Arts and Sciences. He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.