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Around the World in 80 Books materials struggles withA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them. Inspired by Jules Vernes hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard Universitys department of comparative literature and founder of Harvards Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemics restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from