The Question and Answer section for Around the World in 80 Days is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Phileas Fogg travels on three trains and five main steamers during his journey.
Trains: Orient Expree, British Rail in India, the Transcontinental Railroad in the United States.
Steamers: Mongolia, Rangoon, Carnatic, General Grant, China
The most important theme in this novel is time. Fogg's wager is a race against time, and his adventures illustrate repeatedly that time is fickle, and either works for or against them. In many cases, time foils their plans, when the delays build...
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His sole pastimes were reading the papers and playing whist.
