Description:Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Cat and the Canary, Plum Sykes, Syracuse, New York in fiction, The View from Saturday, Bergdorf Blondes, The Deerslayer, Ginger Pye, Tropic of Capricorn, How It Happened in Peach Hill. Excerpt: Around the World in Eighty Days (French: ) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a 20,000 wager (equal to 1,324,289 today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on October 2, 1872. Phileas Fogg is a rich English gentleman and bachelor living in solitude at Number 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens. Despite his wealth, which is 40,000 (equal to 2,648,577 today), Mr. Fogg, whose countenance is described as "repose in action," lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. 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 instead of, Mr. Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout, who is about 30 years old, as a replacement. Later, on that day, in the Reform Club, Fogg 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. He accepts a wager for 20,000 from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days. Accompanied by Monsieur Passepartout, he leaves London by train at 8:45 P.M. on October 2, 1872, and t...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with New York in Fiction: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the Cat and the Canary, Plum Sykes, Syracuse, New York in Fiction, Bergdorf Blondes. To get started finding New York in Fiction: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the Cat and the Canary, Plum Sykes, Syracuse, New York in Fiction, Bergdorf Blondes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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New York in Fiction: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the Cat and the Canary, Plum Sykes, Syracuse, New York in Fiction, Bergdorf Blondes
Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Cat and the Canary, Plum Sykes, Syracuse, New York in fiction, The View from Saturday, Bergdorf Blondes, The Deerslayer, Ginger Pye, Tropic of Capricorn, How It Happened in Peach Hill. Excerpt: Around the World in Eighty Days (French: ) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a 20,000 wager (equal to 1,324,289 today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on October 2, 1872. Phileas Fogg is a rich English gentleman and bachelor living in solitude at Number 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens. Despite his wealth, which is 40,000 (equal to 2,648,577 today), Mr. Fogg, whose countenance is described as "repose in action," lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. 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 instead of, Mr. Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout, who is about 30 years old, as a replacement. Later, on that day, in the Reform Club, Fogg 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. He accepts a wager for 20,000 from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days. Accompanied by Monsieur Passepartout, he leaves London by train at 8:45 P.M. on October 2, 1872, and t...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with New York in Fiction: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the Cat and the Canary, Plum Sykes, Syracuse, New York in Fiction, Bergdorf Blondes. To get started finding New York in Fiction: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the Cat and the Canary, Plum Sykes, Syracuse, New York in Fiction, Bergdorf Blondes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.