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Around the World in 80 Days is a 1873 novel by French author, Jules Verne. - AsNotedIn

It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself from London for many years. Those who were honoured by a better acquaintance with him than the rest, declared that nobody could pretend to have ever seen him anywhere else. His sole pastimes were reading the papers and playing whist. He often won at this game, which, as a silent one, harmonised with his nature; but his winnings never went into his purse, being reserved as a fund for his charities. Mr Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing. The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.

Places

• Colfax, CA, California The train, on leaving Sacramento, and passing the junction, Roclin, Auburn, and Colfax, entered the range of the Sierra Nevada.
• Richard B Sheridan House, London Mr Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. (Richard Sheridan died in 1816 at 14 Savile Row.)
• The Reform Club, London Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club, ....
• World, I agree with Mr Fogg. The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago.

Food

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