Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today Around the World in Eighty Days remains Jules Verne's most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and exciting suspense story. Together with his manservant, Passepartout, Fogg makes a breathless world tour, overcoming wild misadventures and finding time to rescue a beautiful Indian maharani from a burning funeral pyreall the while restlessly pursued by a bumbling detective called Mr. Fix. Realistically utilizing nearly every means of transportation known in the 1870s,Around the World in Eighty Daysgenerated enchantment with scientific progressand its delightful mixture of fantasy, comedy, and dazzling suspense has kept it a perennially superb entertainment.

Jules Verne was born into a family with a seafaring tradition in Nantes, France in 1828. Verne was sent to Paris to study law, but once there, he quickly fell in love with the theater. He was soon writing plays and opera librettos, and his first play was produced in 1850. When he refused his father's entreaties to return to Nantes and practice law, his allowance was cut off, and he was forced to make his living by selling stories and articles. Soon he was turning out imaginative stories such as Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and From the Earth to the Moon (1865), which were immensely popular all over the world. His ability to envision the next stage in man's technological progress produced 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and Michael Strogoff (1876). His biggest success came with Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). Verne's books made him famous and rich. In 1876, he bought a large steam yacht in which he could write more comfortably than on shore. His books were widely translated, dramatized, and later filmed. He died in Amiens in 1905.

In which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout accept each other, the one as master, the other as man	p. 1
In which Passepartout is convinced that he has at last found his ideal	p. 5
In which a conversation takes place which seems likely to cost Phileas Fogg dear	p. 8
In which Phileas Fogg astounds Passepartout, his servant	p. 13
In which a new species of funds, unknown to the moneyed men, appears on 'Change	p. 16
In which Fix, the detective, betrays a very natural impatience	p. 18
Which once more demonstrates the uselessness of passports as aids to detectives	p. 22
In which Passepartout talks rather more, perhaps, than is prudent	p. 24
In which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean prove propitious to the designs of Phileas Fogg	p. 27
In which Passepartout is only too glad to get off with the loss of his shoes	p. 31
In which Phileas Fogg secures a curious means of conveyance at a fabulous price	p. 35
In which Phileas Fogg and his companions venture across the Indian forests, and what ensued	p. 41
In which Passepartout receives a new proof that fortune favours the brave	p. 47
In which Phileas Fogg descends the whole length of the beautiful valley of the Ganges without ever thinking of seeing it	p. 52
In which the bag of bank-notes disgorges some thousands of pounds more	p. 56
In which Fix does not seem to understand in the least what is said to him	p. 62
Showing what happened on the voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong	p. 66
In which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix go each about his business	p. 70
In which Passepartout takes a too great interest in his master, and what comes of it	p. 74
In which Fix comes face to face with Phileas Fogg	p. 79
In which the master of the "Tankadere" runs great risk of losing a reward of two hundred pounds	p. 84
In which Passepartout finds out that, even at the antipodes, it is convenient to have some money in one's pocket	p. 90
In which Passepartout's nose becomes outrageously long	p. 95
During which Mr. Fogg and party cross the Pacific Ocean	p. 100
In which a slight glimpse is had of San Francisco	p. 105
In which Phileas Fogg and party travel by the Pacific Railroad	p. 110
In which Passepartout undergoes, at a speed of twenty miles an hour, a course of Mormon history	p. 114
In which Passepartout does not succeed in making anybody listen to reason	p. 119
In which certain incidents are narrated which are only to be met with on American railroads	p. 125
In which Phileas Fogg simply does his duty	p. 131
In which Fix the detective considerably furthers the interests of Phileas Fogg	p. 137
In which Phileas Fogg engages in a direct struggle with bad fortune	p. 141
In which Phileas Fogg shows himself equal to the occasion	p. 144
In which Phileas Fogg at last reaches London	p. 151
In which Phileas Fogg does not have to repeat his orders to Passepartout twice	p. 153
In which Phileas Fogg's name is once more at a premium on 'Change	p. 157
In which it is shown that Phileas Fogg gained nothing by his tour around the world, unless it were happiness	p. 160
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