The author of "Around the World in Eighty Days" is Jules Verne.
"Around the World in Eighty Days" (Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a work by the famous French writer Jules Verne, "the father of science fiction", and is one of his representative works.
There are 37 chapters in the book, illustrated by Alphonse de Neuville and Léon Benett.
The entire book was published in Le Temps from November 6, 1872 to December 22 of the same year.
This is one of Verne's most popular novels and a classic of world science fiction, with a lively style and a sense of humor.
The novel tells the story of Mr. Fogg, an Englishman, who made a bet with his friends that he could travel around the world and return to London in 80 days.
Although he overcame various difficulties, he arrived in London five minutes late. He thought he had failed, but unexpectedly succeeded because he circumnavigated the earth from west to east, saving exactly one day. The work became very popular after it was turned into a script.
The novel contains rich historical and geographical knowledge. Verne denounced the poison of British opium to the Chinese people, ridiculed the armed elections in the United States, and showed the strange customs of various places.
Jules Gabriel Verne (Jules Gabriel Verne, 1828.2.8-1905.3.24), a 19th-century French science fiction novelist, is known as the "Father of Science Fiction."
He first studied law and published his first novel "Five Weeks in a Balloon" in 1863, which was a huge success and has been out of control ever since.
General Verne created more than sixty novels and several short story collections, as well as dozens of scripts and other various works.
His major works include "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Around the World in Eighty Days", "The Mysterious Island", "Captain Grant's Children", "Journey to the Center of the Earth", etc.
His novels can be divided into two categories: one is "roaming in the unknown world" and the other is "roaming in the known world".