Around The World In 80 Days Official

While Jules Verne’s 1872 masterpiece Around the World in 80 Days is often celebrated as a high-octane travel adventure, a "deep" look reveals a narrative dense with Victorian-era anxieties, the paradox of time, and the transition from a mechanical life to a human one. The Mechanics of Character: From Automaton to Man

At the novel's start, Phileas Fogg is less a human and more a machine. He lives by a schedule so rigid he fires a servant for a two-degree discrepancy in shaving water temperature. Around The World In 80 Days