Around The World In Eighty Days has been considered as one of the mostfamous stories of this genre in world literature. First written in 1874, thenovel tells the story of Mr. Fogg who goes round the world by land and seain eighty days just to win a bet that 'it could be done'. In these days of spacetravel, this achievement would be considered outdated but the value andrelevance of the story lie in combining adventure and popular science for thecommon reader. More importantly, this novel provides the principle on which alllater science fiction stories have been based: a hypothesis, an examination ofits consequences, made interesting by a story woven round it