About the book
Phileas Fogg, a London gentleman who lives by the clock, bets his club twenty thousand pounds that he can travel around the world in eighty days. He leaves that same evening with his new French valet, Passepartout, and with a detective on his heels who believes he is a bank robber. Jules Verne's 1873 novel crosses India by elephant and America by train, and saves its best trick for the last page.
Translated from the French by George M. Towle (1873).
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
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Chapter 1: In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One as Master, the Other as Man
About 5 min
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Chapter 2: In Which Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has at Last Found His Ideal
About 5 min
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Chapter 3: In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dear
About 10 min
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Chapter 4: In Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout, His Servant
About 5 min
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Chapter 5: In Which a New Species of Funds, Unknown to the Moneyed Men, Appears on ’Change
About 5 min
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Chapter 6: In Which Fix, the Detective, Betrays a Very Natural Impatience
About 5 min
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Chapter 7: Which Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness of Passports as Aids to Detectives
About 5 min
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Chapter 8: In Which Passepartout Talks Rather More, Perhaps, Than Is Prudent
About 5 min
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Chapter 9: In Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove Propitious to the Designs of Phileas Fogg
About 5 min
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Chapter 10: In Which Passepartout Is Only Too Glad to Get Off with the Loss of His Shoes
About 5 min
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Chapter 11: In Which Phileas Fogg Secures a Curious Means of Conveyance at a Fabulous Price
About 10 min
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Chapter 12: In Which Phileas Fogg and His Companions Venture Across the Indian Forests, and What Ensued
About 10 min
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Chapter 13: In Which Passepartout Receives a New Proof That Fortune Favors the Brave
About 10 min
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Chapter 14: In Which Phileas Fogg Descends the Whole Length of the Beautiful Valley of the Ganges Without Ever Thinking of Seeing It
About 10 min
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Chapter 15: In Which the Bag of Banknotes Disgorges Some Thousands of Pounds More
About 10 min
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Chapter 16: In Which Fix Does Not Seem to Understand in the Least What Is Said to Him
About 5 min
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Chapter 17: Showing What Happened on the Voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong
About 5 min
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Chapter 18: In Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix Go Each About His Business
About 5 min
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Chapter 19: In Which Passepartout Takes a Too Great Interest in His Master, and What Comes of It
About 10 min
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Chapter 20: In Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Fogg
About 10 min
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Chapter 21: In Which the Master of the “Tankadere” Runs Great Risk of Losing a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds
About 10 min
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Chapter 22: In Which Passepartout Finds Out That, Even at the Antipodes, It Is Convenient to Have Some Money in One’s Pocket
About 10 min
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Chapter 23: In Which Passepartout’s Nose Becomes Outrageously Long
About 10 min
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Chapter 24: During Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Ocean
About 10 min
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Chapter 25: In Which a Slight Glimpse Is Had of San Francisco
About 10 min
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Chapter 26: In Which Phileas Fogg and Party Travel by the Pacific Railroad
About 5 min
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Chapter 27: In Which Passepartout Undergoes, at a Speed of Twenty Miles an Hour, a Course of Mormon History
About 10 min
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Chapter 28: In Which Passepartout Does Not Succeed in Making Anybody Listen to Reason
About 10 min
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Chapter 29: In Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which Are Only to Be Met with on American Railroads
About 10 min
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Chapter 30: In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty
About 10 min
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Chapter 31: In Which Fix, the Detective, Considerably Furthers the Interests of Phileas Fogg
About 10 min
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Chapter 32: In Which Phileas Fogg Engages in a Direct Struggle with Bad Fortune
About 5 min
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Chapter 33: In Which Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasion
About 10 min
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Chapter 34: In Which Phileas Fogg at Last Reaches London
About 5 min
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Chapter 35: In Which Phileas Fogg Does Not Have to Repeat His Orders to Passepartout Twice
About 5 min
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Chapter 36: In Which Phileas Fogg’s Name Is Once More at a Premium on ’Change
About 5 min
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Chapter 37: In Which It Is Shown That Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing by His Tour Around the World, Unless It Were Happiness
About 5 min