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Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne (1828–1905)

Translated by George M. Towle

38 chapters and parts · about 5 hours to read

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"Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne is an adventure novel published in 1872. When London gentleman Phileas Fogg wagers half his fortune that he can circle the globe in eighty days, he embarks on a race against time with his French valet Passepartout. Their journey becomes complicated when a detective mistakes Fogg for a bank robber and pursues them across continents. Along the way, they rescue a young woman and face numerous obstacles that threaten their tight deadline.

This summary comes from the Project Gutenberg catalogue, where it was written automatically.

  • Adventure stories
  • Voyages around the world

Chapters

  1. Opening pagesabout 3 minutes
  2. Chapter IIn Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One as Master, the Other as Manabout 7 minutes
  3. Chapter IIIn Which Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has at Last Found His Idealabout 6 minutes
  4. Chapter IIIIn Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dearabout 10 minutes
  5. Chapter IVIn Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout, His Servantabout 5 minutes
  6. Chapter VIn Which a New Species of Funds, Unknown to the Moneyed Men, Appears on ’changeabout 5 minutes
  7. Chapter VIIn Which Fix, the Detective, Betrays a Very Natural Impatienceabout 6 minutes
  8. Chapter VIIWhich Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness of Passports as Aids to Detectivesabout 4 minutes
  9. Chapter VIIIIn Which Passepartout Talks Rather More, Perhaps, Than Is Prudentabout 5 minutes
  10. Chapter IXIn Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove Propitious to the Designs of Phileas Foggabout 8 minutes
  11. Chapter XIn Which Passepartout Is Only Too Glad to Get Off with the Loss of His Shoesabout 8 minutes
  12. Chapter XIIn Which Phileas Fogg Secures a Curious Means of Conveyance at a Fabulous Priceabout 13 minutes
  13. Chapter XIIIn Which Phileas Fogg and His Companions Venture Across the Indian Forests, and What Ensuedabout 10 minutes
  14. Chapter XIIIIn Which Passepartout Receives a New Proof That Fortune Favors the Braveabout 10 minutes
  15. Chapter XIVIn Which Phileas Fogg Descends the Whole Length of the Beautiful Valley of the Ganges Without Ever Thinking of Seeing Itabout 10 minutes
  16. Chapter XVIn Which the Bag of Banknotes Disgorges Some Thousands of Pounds Moreabout 9 minutes
  17. Chapter XVIIn Which Fix Does Not Seem to Understand in the Least What Is Said to Himabout 8 minutes
  18. Chapter XVIIShowing What Happened on the Voyage from Singapore to Hong Kongabout 9 minutes
  19. Chapter XVIIIIn Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix Go Each About His Businessabout 7 minutes
  20. Chapter XIXIn Which Passepartout Takes a Too Great Interest in His Master, and What Comes of Itabout 10 minutes
  21. Chapter XXIn Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Foggabout 9 minutes
  22. Chapter XXIIn Which the Master of the “Tankadere” Runs Great Risk of Losing a Reward of Two Hundred Poundsabout 13 minutes
  23. Chapter XXIIIn Which Passepartout Finds Out That, Even at the Antipodes, It Is Convenient to Have Some Money in One’s Pocketabout 10 minutes
  24. Chapter XXIIIIn Which Passepartout’s Nose Becomes Outrageously Longabout 10 minutes
  25. Chapter XXIVDuring Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Oceanabout 10 minutes
  26. Chapter XXVIn Which a Slight Glimpse Is Had of San Franciscoabout 10 minutes
  27. Chapter XXVIIn Which Phileas Fogg and Party Travel by the Pacific Railroadabout 8 minutes
  28. Chapter XXVIIIn Which Passepartout Undergoes, at a Speed of Twenty Miles an Hour, a Course of Mormon Historyabout 10 minutes
  29. Chapter XXVIIIIn Which Passepartout Does Not Succeed in Making Anybody Listen to Reasonabout 12 minutes
  30. Chapter XXIXIn Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which Are Only to Be Met with on American Railroadsabout 11 minutes
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  1. Chapter XXXIn Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Dutyabout 11 minutes
  2. Chapter XXXIIn Which Fix, the Detective, Considerably Furthers the Interests of Phileas Foggabout 9 minutes
  3. Chapter XXXIIIn Which Phileas Fogg Engages in a Direct Struggle with Bad Fortuneabout 5 minutes
  4. Chapter XXXIIIIn Which Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasionabout 12 minutes
  5. Chapter XXXIVIn Which Phileas Fogg at Last Reaches Londonabout 5 minutes
  6. Chapter XXXVIn Which Phileas Fogg Does Not Have to Repeat His Orders to Passepartout Twiceabout 8 minutes
  7. Chapter XXXVIIn Which Phileas Fogg’s Name Is Once More at a Premium on ’changeabout 5 minutes
  8. Chapter XXXVIIIn Which It Is Shown That Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing by His Tour Around the World, Unless It Were Happinessabout 5 minutes

Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne, translated by George M. Towle, is in the public domain in the United States. Text from Project Gutenberg, eBook #103, with thanks. Sureno removed Project Gutenberg's header and licence and set the text in large print; this is not an official Project Gutenberg edition. Outside the United States, check your own country's copyright rules before copying it.

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