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Title: Around the World in 80 Days

Author: Jules Verne

Posting Date: September 11, 2012 [EBook #2154] Release Date: April, 2000 First Posted: September 12, 2003

Language: English

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AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS

By JULES VERNE

Junior Deluxe Edition

CONTENTS

Chapter 1

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

Chapter 2

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

Chapter 3

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

Chapter 4

In Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout

Chapter 5

In Which a New Security Appears on the London Exchange

Chapter 6

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

Chapter 7

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

Chapter 8

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

Chapter 9

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

Chapter 10

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

Chapter 11

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

Chapter 12

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

Chapter 13

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

Chapter 14

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

Chapter 15

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

Chapter 16

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

Chapter 17

Showing What Happened on the Voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong

Chapter 18

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

Chapter 19

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

Chapter 20

In Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Fogg

Chapter 21

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

Chapter 22

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

Chapter 23

In Which Passepartout's Nose Becomes Outrageously Long

Chapter 24

During Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Ocean

Chapter 25

In Which a Slight Glimpse Is Had of San Francisco

Chapter 26

In Which Phileas Fogg and Party Travel by the Pacific Railroad

Chapter 27

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

Chapter 28

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

Chapter 29

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

Chapter 30

In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty

Chapter 31

Fix the Detective Considerably Furthers the Interests of Phileas Fogg

Chapter 32

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

Chapter 33

In Which Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasion

Chapter 34

In Which Phileas Fogg at Last Reaches London

Chapter 35

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

Chapter 36

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

Chapter 37

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

Chapter 1

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

Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No.7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention. This Phileas Fogg was a puzzling gentleman, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled the poet Byron—at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, peaceful Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.

Certainly Phileas Fogg was an Englishman, but it was more doubtful whether he was a Londoner. He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn. Nor had he ever pleaded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He certainly was not a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. His name was