Mr. Phileas Fogg, being the main character, gets a servant called Jean. While talking about a bank robbery with the other people in the Reform Club, the club that he is associated with, he gets into a bet that he can not go around the world in 80 days. The stakes are relatively high at 20 thousand quid. Jean and Mr. Fogg then depart for there epic journey against the clock.
I felt that the first 20 pages of this book and first twenty pages of the Pickwick Papers are somewhat parallel in the way they both show the boring lives of rich Englishmen of the time period.
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Is Mr. Fogg's name meant to be a pun?
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