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Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days

by Jules VERNE (1828 - 1905)

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)


During Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Ocean

Fix the Detective Considerably Furthers the Interests of Phileas Fogg

In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dearly

In Which a New Security Appears on the London Exchange

In Which a Slight Glimpse Is Had of San Francisco

In Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which Are Only to Be Met with on American Railroads

In Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Fogg

In Which Fix Does Not Seem to Understand in the Least What is Said to Him

In Which Fix, the Detective, Betrays a Very Natural Impatience

In Which It Is Shown That Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing by His Tour around the World Except Happiness

In Which Passepartout Does Not Succeed in Making Anybody Listen to Reason

In Which Passepartout Finds Out That, Even at the Antipodes, It Is Convenient to Have Some Money in One's Pocket

In Which Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has at Last Found His Ideal

In Which Passepartout Is Only Too Glad to Get off with the Loss of His Shoes

In Which Passepartout Receives a New Proof That Fortune Favors the Brave

In Which Passepartout Takes a Too Great Interest in His Master, and What Comes of It

In Which Passepartout Talks Rather More, Perhaps, than Is Prudent

In Which Passepartout Undergoes, at a Speed of Twenty Miles an Hour, a Course of Mormon History

In Which Passepartout's Nose Becomes Outrageously Long

In Which Phileas Fogg and His Companions Venture across the Indian Forests, and What Follows

In Which Phileas Fogg and Party Travel by the Pacific Railroad

In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One as Master, the Other as Man

In Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout

In Which Phileas Fogg at Last Reaches London

In Which Phileas Fogg Buys a Curious Means of Conveyance at a Fabulous Price

In Which Phileas Fogg Descends the Whole Length of the Beautiful Valley of the Ganges without Ever Thinking of Seeing It

In Which Phileas Fogg Does Not Have to Repeat His Orders to Passepartout Twice

In Which Phileas Fogg Engages in a Direct Struggle with Bad Fortune

In Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout and Fix Go Each about His Business

In Which Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasion

In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty

In Which Phileas Fogg's Name Is Once More at a Premium on the Market

In Which the Bag of Banknotes Disgorges Some Thousands of Pounds More

In Which the Master of the Tankadere Runs Great Risk of Losing a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds

In Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove Propitious to the Designs of Phileas Fogg

Showing What Happened on the Voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong

Which Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness of Passports as Aids to Detectives