Novel Of The World

         In which Phileas Fogg has an expensive conversation Phileas Fogg took his usual five hundred and seventy six steps to the Reform club, and went at once to his breakfast. He followed this by reading various newspapers until dinner. After dinner, he was joined by his usual partners at whist-Andrew Stuart the engineer, John Sullivan and Samuel Fallantin the bankers, Thomas Flanagan, and Gauthier Ralph, Director of the Bank of England. They discussed the latest news, which was a robbery at the Bank of England. A pack of banknotes worth about fifty-five thousand pounds had been stolen from the cashier's table. All the newspapers and clubs were abuzz with the news. Fogg and his friends were arguing about where the thief could have possibly escaped with the loot, and this soon turned into a lively discussion on how soon a man could go around the world. "Ralph, you claim that you can go around the world in three months" "In eighty...

                   In which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout meet It was the year 1872. Mr. Phileas Fogg lived at No.7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London. He was a tall, handsome gentleman of about fort who did not attract much attention. People knew very little about him. He was an Englishman for sure, but not a typical Londoner. He did not belong to any of the numerous societies in London. He was neither a manufacturer, nor a merchant. Phileas Fogg was a member of the Reform Club, and that was all. Fogg was undoubtedly a rich man, but nobody knew how he had made his fortune. He did not spend his money freely, nor was he a miser. If money was needed for a noble purpose, he would supply it quietly, even anonymously. He talked very little and seemed mysterious, but his daily habits were open and routine. He seemed to have travelled a lot, for there was no place that he did not kno...