Jules Verne, creator of the fantasy-adventure novel genre, is one of the most widely read French authors, whom few other writers are ahead of in terms of the number of reprints. Vern's heroes conquer forests, deserts, the depths of the world's oceans, discover the secrets of space and plunge into the bowels of the earth. Of course, over a century and a half, science has mastered many of the territories reserved for that era, but the writer’s inherent mastery of intrigue, the ability to drastically change the course of events, can still amaze the reader’s imagination to this day. The novel Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) takes the reader along hundreds of roads around the globe in the company of the London gentleman Phileas Fogg, his servant Passepartout and detective Fix, familiar to all of us from childhood through numerous film adaptations.