Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
About this book
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly-employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Chapters (37)
1In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other,
the One as Master, the Other as Man
2In Which Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has
at Last Found His Ideal
3In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems
Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dearly
4In Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout
5In Which a New Security Appears on the London Exchange
6In Which Fix, the Detective, Betrays a Very Natural Impatience
7Which Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness
of Passports as Aids to Detectives
8In Which Passepartout Talks Rather More,
Perhaps, than Is Prudent
9In Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove
Propitious to the Designs of Phileas Fogg
10In Which Passepartout Is Only Too Glad
to Get off with the Loss of His Shoes
11In Which Phileas Fogg Buys a Curious
Means of Conveyance at a Fabulous Price
12In Which Phileas Fogg and His Companions Venture
across the Indian Forests, and What Follows
13In Which Passepartout Receives a New Proof
That Fortune Favors the Brave
14In Which Phileas Fogg Descends the Whole Length of the
Beautiful Valley of the Ganges without Ever Thinking of Seeing It
15In Which the Bag of Banknotes Disgorges
Some Thousands of Pounds More
16In Which Fix Does Not Seem to Understand
in the Least What is Said to Him
17Showing What Happened on the Voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong
18In Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout and Fix
Go Each about His Business
19In Which Passepartout Takes a Too Great Interest in His Master,
and What Comes of It
20In Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Fogg
21In Which the Master of the Tankadere Runs Great Risk
of Losing a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds
22In Which Passepartout Finds Out That, Even at the Antipodes,
It Is Convenient to Have Some Money in One's Pocket
23In Which Passepartout's Nose Becomes Outrageously Long
24During Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Ocean
25In Which a Slight Glimpse Is Had of San Francisco
26In Which Phileas Fogg and Party Travel by the Pacific Railroad
27In Which Passepartout Undergoes, at a Speed of
Twenty Miles an Hour, a Course of Mormon History
28In Which Passepartout Does Not Succeed
in Making Anybody Listen to Reason
29In Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which
Are Only to Be Met with on American Railroads
30In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty
31Fix the Detective Considerably Furthers
the Interests of Phileas Fogg
32In Which Phileas Fogg Engages in a
Direct Struggle with Bad Fortune
33In Which Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasion
34In Which Phileas Fogg at Last Reaches London
35In Which Phileas Fogg Does Not Have to
Repeat His Orders to Passepartout Twice
36In Which Phileas Fogg's Name Is Once More
at a Premium on the Market
37In Which It Is Shown That Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing
by His Tour around the World Except Happiness
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