"Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" by Jules Verne is an adventure novel first published in 1872. When London gentleman Phileas Fogg accepts a wager of £20,000 that he cannot circumnavigate the globe in eighty days, he embarks on an extraordinary race against time with his French valet Passepartout. Their journey becomes complicated when a detective mistakes Fogg for a bank robber and pursues them across continents, while unexpected obstacles and daring rescues threaten their precise schedule at every turn.