Around the world in eighty days

Jules Verne, Creator of the genre of fantasy-adventure novel, is one of the most widely read French authors that few of the writers exceeded the number of reprints. True heroes conquer forests, deserts, the depths of the oceans, discover the mysteries of the cosmos and plunge into the bowels of the earth. Of course, science for a century and a half has mastered many reserved for the age of the territory, but the inherent writer skills intrigue, the cool ability to change the course of events and to this day is able to impress the reader's imagination. The novel "Around the world in eighty days" (1872) takes the reader on hundreds of roads around the globe in the society of London gentleman Phileas Fogg, his servant Passepartout and detective Fix, familiar to us from childhood in numerous film adaptations.