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Around the World in Eighty Days

by Jules VERNE (1828 - 1905)

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

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)

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During Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Ocean , Fix the Detective Considerably Furthers the Interests of Phileas Fogg , 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 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 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