Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, 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 ÂŁ20,000 wager (equal to about ÂŁ2 million in 2016) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.