Around the World in Eighty Days

by Verne, Jules; Rogers, Jacqueline

• ISBN13: 9780451525451
• ISBN10: 0451525450
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-09-01
• Publisher: New Amer Library

Summary

A fastidious English gentleman makes a remarkable wager - he will travel around the world in eighty days or forfeit his life's savings. Thus begins Jules Verne's classic 1872 novel, which remains unsurpassed in sheer storytelling entertainment and pure adventure. Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant, Jean Passepartout, embark on a fantastic journey into a world filled with danger and beauty - from the exotic shores of India, where the heroic travellers rescue a beautiful Raja's wife from ritual sacrifice, to the rugged American frontier, where their train is ambushed by an angry Sioux tribe. Fogg's mission is complicated by an incredible case of mistaken identity that sends a Scotland Yard detective in hot pursuit. At once a riveting race against time and an action-packed odyssey into the unknown, Around the World in Eighty Days is a masterpiece of adventure fiction that has captured the imagination of generations of readers - and continues to enthral us today. With an Afterword by Thurston Clarke.

Author Biography

Jules Verne, born at Nantes, France, in 1828, of legal and seafaring stock, was the author of innumerable adventure stories that combined a vivid imagination with a gift for popularizing science. Although he studied law at Paris, he devoted his life entirely to writing. His most popular stories, besides 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870), include: Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), A Trip to the Moon (1865), Around the World in Eighty Days (1872), and Michael Strogoff (1876). In addition, he was the author of a number of successful plays, as well as a popular history of exploration from Phoenician times to the mid-nineteenth century, The Discovery of the Earth (1878-80). After a long and active career in literature, Jules Verne died at Amiens, France, in 1905.

Table of Contents

In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One as Master, the Other as Servant	p. 9
In Which Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has at Last Found His Ideal	p. 14
In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dear	p. 18
In Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout, His Servant	p. 26
In Which a New Species of Bonds Appears on the London Exchange	p. 30
In Which Fix, the Detective, Betrays a Very Natural Impatience	p. 34
Which Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness of Passports as Aids to Detectives	p. 39
In Which Passepartout Talks Rather More, Perhaps, Than Is Prudent	p. 43
In Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove Propitious to the Designs of Phileas Fogg	p. 48
In Which Passepartout Is Only Too Glad to Get Off With the Loss of His Shoes	p. 54
In Which Phileas Fogg Secures a Curious Means of Conveyance at a Fabulous Price	p. 60
In Which Phileas Fogg and His Companions Venture Across the Indian Forests, and What Ensues	p. 69
In Which Passepartout Receives a New Proof That Fortune Favors the Brave	p. 77
In Which Phileas Fogg Descends the Whole Length of the Beautiful Valley of the Ganges Without Ever Thinking of Seeing It	p. 84
In Which the Bag of Bank Notes Becomes Lighter by Thousands of Pounds	p. 91
In Which Fix Does Not Seem to Understand in the Least What Is Said to Him	p. 98
Showing What Happens on the Voyage From Singapore to Hong Kong	p. 104
In Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix Each Goes About His Business	p. 110
In Which Passepartout Takes Too Great an Interest in His Master, and What Comes of It	p. 115
In Which Fix Comes Face to Face With Phileas Fogg	p. 123
In Which the Master of the Tankadere Runs Great Risk of Losing a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds	p. 130
In Which Passepartout Finds Out That, Even at the Antipodes, It Is Convenient to Have Some Money in One's Pocket	p. 139
In Which Passepartout's Nose Becomes Outrageously Long	p. 147
During Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Ocean	p. 154
In Which a Slight Glimpse Is Had of San Francisco	p. 161
In Which Phileas Fogg and Party Travel by the Pacific Railroad	p. 168
In Which Passepartout Undergoes, at a Speed of Twenty Miles an Hour, a Course of Mormon History	p. 174
In Which Passepartout Does Not Succeed in Making Anyone Listen to Reason	p. 181
In Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which Are Only to Be Met With on American Railroads	p. 190
In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty	p. 198
In Which Fix, the Detective, Considerably Furthers the Interests of Phileas Fogg	p. 206
In Which Phileas Fogg Engages in a Direct Struggle With Bad Fortune	p. 213
In Which Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasion	p. 218
In Which Phileas Fogg at Last Reaches London	p. 227
In Which Phileas Fogg Does Not Have to Repeat his Orders to Passepartout Twice	p. 231
In Which Phileas Fogg's Name Is Once More at a Premium on 'Change	p. 237
In Which It Is Shown That Phileas Fogg Has Gained Nothing by His Tour Around the World, Unless It Be Happiness	p. 242
Afterword	p. 246
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