Or was it? Because of this coincidence of dates, people believed the journey was actually taking place in real time! It is no wonder that December 21 was chosen as the significant wager day in the book. This development in circumnavigation fascinated Verne, whose character was inspired by the real around-the-world journey of the adventurous American writer William Perry Fogg.īefore we knew it, the novel was serially published starting on December 21, 1872, while it was published in book form on January 30, 1973. Just before this time, by 1870, there were three major breakthroughs that made a tourist-like around-the-world journey possible for the first time. Two events had greatly affected him during this time - one was his father’s death, and the other was a public execution that greatly disturbed him. It was already a financially dire period for him, and he was called upon as coastguard during the war. Since it was written during the Franco-Prussian War in 18, it was a difficult time for Verne and his country. Set and published in 1872, Jules Verne’s adventure novel is certainly a classic, and with good reason.
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