Tess of the D Ubervilles and Around The World in 80 Days

The story of Tess of the dUrbervilles revolves around a 16 year old very simple girl named Tess Durbeyfield. Since the family suffers acute financial crisis so they approach the dUrbervilles family who are holding huge land and having lot of money. There Tess meets Alec dUrberville who finds himself attracted to Tess. She meets Mr. Crick for another job. She also meets one more fellow Angel Clare who is a travelling farmers apprentice. They marry each other. But after knowing her story again there is a turn in Tess life. How she manages all such situation how she meets all the financial aspects lot of things happen with Tess.. Around the World in 80 Days‘Around the world in Eighty days’ was published in 1873. It is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne. It was first published in French. The book is one of Verne’s most acclaimed works. Jules Verne (8th February 1828 – 24th March 1905) was French novelist poet and playwright. In his credit a series of novels are there such as Voyage extraordinaries Journey to the center of the Earth Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. Each novel is well documented. Besides novels he also wrote numerous plays short stories autobiographical accounts poetry and songs. He has been the second most translated author in the world. He has sometimes been called the ‘Father of Science Fiction’. The story starts with Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valot Passe-partout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80-days. It starts from London Fogg is a member of the Reform club where he use to spend most of his social life. Once at the Reform Club there is a situation that is it possible to travel around the world in 80-days? After reading in The Daily Telegraph that has a new rail road in India made it in 80-days. Fogg along with Passe-partout departs from London by train at 8:45 p.m. on 2nd October so in order to win the bet he must come back to the club by the same time on 21st December 80-days later. On the first destination where he reaches starts bad omen. He takes up by the Police by mistake due to his face similarity with a criminal. After this they come to India also take a train from Bombay to Calcutta then Allahabad. At one place they see a ‘Sati procession’ going on. They rescue the lady named Aouda. When they reach back to home. His apologies with her. But she confesses that she loves him and asks him to marry her. The story narrated a complete travelogue with all his experiences makes the book very interesting. Fogg hurries to reach the Reform Club within time to meet his deadline to win the Money. After adjusting of his travel expenses from the prize money and he divides the left money between Passepartout and Fix and marries Aouda.