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Fiction · 1872

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne · translated by George M. Towle

Reading time
about 4.5 h
Length
62,352 words · 190 pages in print
Structure
37 chapters
Language
English (translated from French)
Era
Victorian

Phileas Fogg of the Reform Club, a man whose day is measured to the minute and who has never been known to do anything unexpected, wagers twenty thousand pounds that he can circle the earth in eighty days, and leaves that same evening with a newly hired French servant, Passepartout. Trains, steamers, a rescue in India, an elephant, a sledge across Nebraska and a detective convinced that Fogg has robbed the Bank of England follow.

Jules Verne serialised the novel in Le Temps at the end of 1872, at the moment when the Suez Canal, the Indian railways and the American transcontinental line had just made such a journey possible. It is the lightest of his books and the most exactly engineered.

This edition uses the English translation by George Makepeace Towle, published in 1873. Bibliomancer presents the complete text in its thirty-seven chapters.

Contents

  1. Chapter I — In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One as Master, the Other as Man
  2. Chapter II — In Which Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has at Last Found His Ideal
  3. Chapter III — In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dear
  4. Chapter IV — In Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout, His Servant
  5. Chapter V — In Which a New Species of Funds, Unknown to the Moneyed Men, Appears on ’change
  6. Chapter VI — In Which Fix, the Detective, Betrays a Very Natural Impatience
  7. Chapter VII — Which Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness of Passports as Aids to Detectives
  8. Chapter VIII — In Which Passepartout Talks Rather More, Perhaps, Than Is Prudent
  9. Chapter IX — In Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove Propitious to the Designs of Phileas Fogg
  10. Chapter X — In Which Passepartout Is Only Too Glad to Get Off with the Loss of His Shoes
  11. Chapter XI — In Which Phileas Fogg Secures a Curious Means of Conveyance at a Fabulous Price
  12. Chapter XII — In Which Phileas Fogg and His Companions Venture Across the Indian Forests, and What Ensued
  13. Chapter XIII — In Which Passepartout Receives a New Proof That Fortune Favors the Brave
  14. Chapter XIV — In Which Phileas Fogg Descends the Whole Length of the Beautiful Valley of the Ganges Without Ever Thinking of Seeing It
  15. Chapter XV — In Which the Bag of Banknotes Disgorges Some Thousands of Pounds More
  16. Chapter XVI — In Which Fix Does Not Seem to Understand in the Least What Is Said to Him
  17. Chapter XVII — Showing What Happened on the Voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong
  18. Chapter XVIII — In Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix Go Each About His Business
  19. Chapter XIX — In Which Passepartout Takes a Too Great Interest in His Master, and What Comes of It
  20. Chapter XX — In Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Fogg
  21. Chapter XXI — In Which the Master of the “Tankadere” Runs Great Risk of Losing a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds
  22. Chapter XXII — In Which Passepartout Finds Out That, Even at the Antipodes, It Is Convenient to Have Some Money in One’s Pocket
  23. Chapter XXIII — In Which Passepartout’s Nose Becomes Outrageously Long
  24. Chapter XXIV — During Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Ocean
  25. Chapter XXV — In Which a Slight Glimpse Is Had of San Francisco
  26. Chapter XXVI — In Which Phileas Fogg and Party Travel by the Pacific Railroad
  27. Chapter XXVII — In Which Passepartout Undergoes, at a Speed of Twenty Miles an Hour, a Course of Mormon History
  28. Chapter XXVIII — In Which Passepartout Does Not Succeed in Making Anybody Listen to Reason
  29. Chapter XXIX — In Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which Are Only to Be Met with on American Railroads
  30. Chapter XXX — In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty
  31. Chapter XXXI — In Which Fix, the Detective, Considerably Furthers the Interests of Phileas Fogg
  32. Chapter XXXII — In Which Phileas Fogg Engages in a Direct Struggle with Bad Fortune
  33. Chapter XXXIII — In Which Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasion
  34. Chapter XXXIV — In Which Phileas Fogg at Last Reaches London
  35. Chapter XXXV — In Which Phileas Fogg Does Not Have to Repeat His Orders to Passepartout Twice
  36. Chapter XXXVI — In Which Phileas Fogg’s Name Is Once More at a Premium on ’change
  37. Chapter XXXVII — In Which It Is Shown That Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing by His Tour Around the World, Unless It Were Happiness

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