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Around the World in Eighty Days

Name: Around the World in Eighty Days
Author: Jules Verne

by Jules Verne · complete original text

37 chapters
63,075 words
about 482 min
adventure

In 1872 the calm and exact Mr. Phileas Fogg bets twenty thousand pounds that he can travel around the world in eighty days. With his French servant Passepartout, and with a detective close behind, he races by train, steamer, elephant and sledge against the clock.

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Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention. An enigmatic personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron, at least that his head was Byronic, but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.

Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City". No ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner. He had no public employment. He had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn, nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He certainly was not a manufacturer, nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the Artisan's Association, or the Institution of Arts and Sciences. He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.

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Chapters

In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One As Master, the Other As Man · 11 min
In Which Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has at Last Found His Ideal · 9 min
In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dear · 16 min
In Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout, His Servant · 7 min
In Which a New Species of Funds, Unknown to the Moneyed Men, Appears on 'Change · 7 min
In Which Fix, the Detective, Betrays a Very Natural Impatience · 10 min
Which Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness of Passports As Aids to Detectives · 6 min
In Which Passepartout Talks Rather More, Perhaps, Than Is Prudent · 8 min
In Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove Propitious to the Designs of Phileas Fogg · 12 min
In Which Passepartout Is Only Too Glad to Get Off with the Loss of His Shoes · 12 min
In Which Phileas Fogg Secures a Curious Means of Conveyance at a Fabulous Price · 20 min
In Which Phileas Fogg and His Companions Venture Across the Indian Forests, and What Ensued · 16 min
In Which Passepartout Receives a New Proof That Fortune Favors the Brave · 16 min
In Which Phileas Fogg Descends the Whole Length of the Beautiful Valley of the Ganges Without Ever Thinking of Seeing It · 15 min
In Which the Bag of Banknotes Disgorges Some Thousands of Pounds More · 14 min
In Which Fix Does Not Seem to Understand in the Least What Is Said to Him · 12 min
Showing What Happened on the Voyage From Singapore to Hong Kong · 13 min
In Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix Go Each About His Business · 10 min
In Which Passepartout Takes a Too Great Interest in His Master, and What Comes of It · 16 min
In Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Fogg · 14 min
In Which the Master of the "Tankadere" Runs Great Risk of Losing a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds · 20 min
In Which Passepartout Finds Out That, Even at the Antipodes, It Is Convenient to Have Some Money in One's Pocket · 16 min
In Which Passepartout's Nose Becomes Outrageously Long · 15 min
During Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Ocean · 15 min
In Which a Slight Glimpse Is Had of San Francisco · 16 min
In Which Phileas Fogg and Party Travel By the Pacific Railroad · 12 min
In Which Passepartout Undergoes, at a Speed of Twenty Miles an Hour, a Course of Mormon History · 15 min
In Which Passepartout Does Not Succeed in Making Anybody Listen to Reason · 19 min
In Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which Are Only to Be Met with on American Railroads · 17 min
In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty · 17 min
In Which Fix, the Detective, Considerably Furthers the Interests of Phileas Fogg · 14 min
In Which Phileas Fogg Engages in a Direct Struggle with Bad Fortune · 8 min
In Which Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasion · 19 min
In Which Phileas Fogg at Last Reaches London · 8 min
In Which Phileas Fogg Does Not Have to Repeat His Orders to Passepartout Twice · 12 min
In Which Phileas Fogg's Name Is Once More at a Premium on 'Change · 8 min
In Which It Is Shown That Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing By His Tour Around the World, Unless It Were Happiness · 7 min