Novels set in San Francisco, California (Book Guide): Around the World in Eighty Days, The Maltese Falcon, The Rain God

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 42. Chapters: Around the World in Eighty Days, The Maltese Falcon, The Rain God, Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, American Gods, The Joy Luck Club, American Born Chinese, Tales of the City, White Fang, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Kitchen God's Wife, Villa Incognito, The Dain Curse, McTeague, Propeller Island, A Dirty Job, City of Night, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl, Time After Time, You Suck: A Love Story, 9tail Fox, Kingdom of Fear, American Knees, Bloodsucking Fiends, The Amateur Marriage, The Tree Bride, Mistress of Spices, Leave It to Me, Desirable Daughters, Jokerman 8, South of the Pumphouse. Excerpt: Around the World in Eighty Days (French: ) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (equal to £1,324,289 today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on October 2, 1872. Phileas Fogg is a rich English gentleman and bachelor living in solitude at Number 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens. Despite his wealth, which is £40,000 (equal to £2,648,577 today), Mr Fogg, whose countenance is described as "repose in action", lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. Very little can be said about Mr. Fogg's social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed his former valet, James Forster, for bringing him shaving water at instead of , Mr Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout, who is about 30 years old, as a replacement. Later, on that day, in the Reform Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Morning Chronicle, stating that with ...