"- I bet twenty thousand pounds against who wishes that I'll circle the earth in eighty days or less, ten to nine hundred twenty hours or one hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred minutes. Do you agree? - We accept, MM answered. Stuart, Fallentin, Sullivan, Flanagan, and Ralph, after agreeing. - Well, Mr. Fogg said. Dover train leaves at eight forty-five. I'll take it. - That same evening? asked Stuart. - That same evening, replied Phileas Fogg. "It is no longer the most popular novel by French writer most read in the world: the breathless journey of Phileas Fogg, Passepartout and Princess Aouda is now part of world literature . Their adventure marks the end of the Age of Exploration to open the era of modernity: it is now in a straight line in space-time reduces to a single dimension that takes place around the world. But this linear journey, far from being a pathetic return to the starting point, the field is primarily a transformation: the eccentric gentleman who returned on 7, Savile Row is it not become "the happiest of men "?