Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days
Translated by George Makepeace Towle
Classic Books Press
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne · Translated by George Makepeace Towle
English · 1872 · Fiction
Verne's adventure novel about an English gentleman who wagers he can circle the globe in eighty days, read for its brisk pace and period travel detail.
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Chapter I Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington… Chapter II “Faith,” muttered Passepartout, somewhat flurried, “I’ve seen people… Chapter III Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven… Chapter IV Having won twenty guineas at whist, and taken leave of his friends… Chapter V Phileas Fogg rightly suspected that his departure from London would… Chapter VI The circumstances under which this telegraphic dispatch about Phileas… Chapter VII The detective passed down the quay, and rapidly made his way to the… Chapter VIII Fix soon rejoined Passepartout, who was lounging and looking about on… Chapter IX The distance between Suez and Aden is precisely thirteen hundred and… Chapter X Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its… Chapter XI The train had started punctually. Among the passengers were a number… Chapter XII In order to shorten the journey, the guide passed to the left of the… Chapter XIII The project was a bold one, full of difficulty, perhaps… Chapter XIV The rash exploit had been accomplished; and for an hour Passepartout… Chapter XV The train entered the station, and Passepartout jumping out first… Chapter XVI The Rangoon—one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s boats plying… Chapter XVII The detective and Passepartout met often on deck after this… Chapter XVIII The weather was bad during the latter days of the voyage. The wind… Chapter XIX Hong Kong is an island which came into the possession of the English… Chapter XX While these events were passing at the opium-house, Mr. Fogg… Chapter XXI This voyage of eight hundred miles was a perilous venture on a craft… Chapter XXII The Carnatic, setting sail from Hong Kong at half-past six on the 7th… Chapter XXIII The next morning poor, jaded, famished Passepartout said to himself… Chapter XXIV What happened when the pilot-boat came in sight of Shanghai will be… Chapter XXV It was seven in the morning when Mr. Fogg, Aouda, and Passepartout… Chapter XXVI “From ocean to ocean”—so say the Americans; and these four words… Chapter XXVII During the night of the 5th of December, the train ran southeasterly… Chapter XXVIII The train, on leaving Great Salt Lake at Ogden, passed northward for… Chapter XXIX The train pursued its course, that evening, without interruption… Chapter XXX Three passengers including Passepartout had disappeared. Had they… Chapter XXXI Phileas Fogg found himself twenty hours behind time. Passepartout… Chapter XXXII The China, in leaving, seemed to have carried off Phileas Fogg’s last… Chapter XXXIII An hour after, the Henrietta passed the lighthouse which marks the… Chapter XXXIV Phileas Fogg was in prison. He had been shut up in the Custom House… Chapter XXXV The dwellers in Saville Row would have been surprised the next day… Chapter XXXVI It is time to relate what a change took place in English public… Chapter XXXVII Yes; Phileas Fogg in person. Get a printed copy via Print-on-Demand
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