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Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days

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Language
English
First published
1873
Reading time
271 minutes
Chapters
37 chapters
Translator
George Makepeace Towle (1841–1893)

About this book

In 1872 Phileas Fogg, a London gentleman who lives by the clock, bets the members of his club twenty thousand pounds that he can go around the world in eighty days.

He leaves that same evening with his new French servant, Passepartout, by steamship and railway, while a stubborn detective follows them, convinced that Fogg is a bank robber on the run. Jules Verne's comic adventure, here in George M. Towle's translation of 1873, is a race against time across a world newly joined by railways and steamships. Great fun for readers of any age.

Original work: Serialized in French in 1872

Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical…

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

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    Project Gutenberg (eBook #103)

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    George M. Towle's translation (first published 1873), from Project Gutenberg eBook #103 (updated 29 October 2024), downloaded 7 November 2026. The illustration caption, the title page and the contents list were not imported; the 37 chapters and the translator's one footnote are unchanged.

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Chapters

37 chapters
  1. Chapter I. In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One as Master, the Other as Man7 min
  2. Chapter II. In Which Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has at Last Found His Ideal5 min
  3. Chapter III. In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dear9 min
  4. Chapter IV. In Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout, His Servant5 min
  5. Chapter V. In Which a New Species of Funds, Unknown to the Moneyed Men, Appears on ’Change5 min
  6. Chapter VI. In Which Fix, the Detective, Betrays a Very Natural Impatience6 min
  7. Chapter VII. Which Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness of Passports as Aids to Detectives4 min
  8. Chapter VIII. In Which Passepartout Talks Rather More, Perhaps, Than Is Prudent5 min
  9. Chapter IX. In Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove Propitious to the Designs of Phileas Fogg7 min
  10. Chapter X. In Which Passepartout Is Only Too Glad to Get Off with the Loss of His Shoes7 min
  11. Chapter XI. In Which Phileas Fogg Secures a Curious Means of Conveyance at a Fabulous Price11 min
  12. Chapter XII. In Which Phileas Fogg and His Companions Venture Across the Indian Forests, and What Ensued10 min
  13. Chapter XIII. In Which Passepartout Receives a New Proof That Fortune Favors the Brave9 min
  14. Chapter XIV. In Which Phileas Fogg Descends the Whole Length of the Beautiful Valley of the Ganges Without Ever Thinking of Seeing It9 min
  15. Chapter XV. In Which the Bag of Banknotes Disgorges Some Thousands of Pounds More8 min
  16. Chapter XVI. In Which Fix Does Not Seem to Understand in the Least What Is Said to Him7 min
  17. Chapter XVII. Showing What Happened on the Voyage From Singapore to Hong Kong8 min
  18. Chapter XVIII. In Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix Go Each About His Business6 min
  19. Chapter XIX. In Which Passepartout Takes a Too Great Interest in His Master, and What Comes of It9 min
  20. Chapter XX. In Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Fogg8 min
  21. Chapter XXI. In Which the Master of the “Tankadere” Runs Great Risk of Losing a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds12 min
  22. Chapter XXII. In Which Passepartout Finds Out That, Even at the Antipodes, It Is Convenient to Have Some Money in One’s Pocket9 min
  23. Chapter XXIII. In Which Passepartout’s Nose Becomes Outrageously Long9 min
  24. Chapter XXIV. During Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Ocean9 min
  25. Chapter XXV. In Which a Slight Glimpse Is Had of San Francisco9 min
  26. Chapter XXVI. In Which Phileas Fogg and Party Travel by the Pacific Railroad7 min
  27. Chapter XXVII. In Which Passepartout Undergoes, at a Speed of Twenty Miles an Hour, a Course of Mormon History9 min
  28. Chapter XXVIII. In Which Passepartout Does Not Succeed in Making Anybody Listen to Reason11 min
  29. Chapter XXIX. In Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which Are Only to Be Met with on American Railroads10 min
  30. Chapter XXX. In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty10 min
  31. Chapter XXXI. In Which Fix, the Detective, Considerably Furthers the Interests of Phileas Fogg9 min
  32. Chapter XXXII. In Which Phileas Fogg Engages in a Direct Struggle with Bad Fortune5 min
  33. Chapter XXXIII. In Which Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasion11 min
  34. Chapter XXXIV. In Which Phileas Fogg at Last Reaches London5 min
  35. Chapter XXXV. In Which Phileas Fogg Does Not Have to Repeat His Orders to Passepartout Twice7 min
  36. Chapter XXXVI. In Which Phileas Fogg’s Name Is Once More at a Premium on ’Change5 min
  37. Chapter XXXVII. In Which It Is Shown That Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing by His Tour Around the World, Unless It Were Happiness5 min

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