Book · 1872 · Fiction
The Extraordinary Journeys
Around the World in Eighty Days (Oxford World's Classics)
Oxford University Press · 247 pages
★ 5.5 editorial score
Phileas Fogg wagers half his fortune that steamships and railways have shrunk the world to eighty days, and leaves that evening. Seventeen years later the reporter Nellie Bly ran the route in seventy-two.
