Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne’s novel of Phileas Fogg, a punctilious London gentleman who wagers his fellow members of the Reform Club that he can travel around the world in eighty days, and sets off at once with his new French manservant, Passepartout.

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Famous quotes

• The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago.

  Chapter IIIIn context

  • Change
  • Technology

• The unforeseen does not exist

  Chapter IIIIn context

  • Risk

• A true Englishman doesn’t joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager

  Chapter IIIIn context

  • Risk

• Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!

  Chapter XXXVIIIn context

  • Happiness
  • Love

Contents

1. Chapter IIn Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One as Master, the Other as Man
2. Chapter IIIn Which Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has at Last Found His Ideal
3. Chapter IIIIn Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dear
4. Chapter IVIn Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout, His Servant
5. Chapter VIn Which a New Species of Funds, Unknown to the Moneyed Men, Appears on ’Change
6. Chapter VIIn Which Fix, the Detective, Betrays a Very Natural Impatience
7. Chapter VIIWhich Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness of Passports as Aids to Detectives
8. Chapter VIIIIn Which Passepartout Talks Rather More, Perhaps, than Is Prudent
9. Chapter IXIn Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove Propitious to the Designs of Phileas Fogg
10. Chapter XIn Which Passepartout Is Only Too Glad to Get Off with the Loss of His Shoes
11. Chapter XIIn Which Phileas Fogg Secures a Curious Means of Conveyance at a Fabulous Price
12. Chapter XIIIn Which Phileas Fogg and His Companions Venture Across the Indian Forests, and What Ensued
13. Chapter XIIIIn Which Passepartout Receives a New Proof That Fortune Favors the Brave
14. Chapter XIVIn Which Phileas Fogg Descends the Whole Length of the Beautiful Valley of the Ganges Without Ever Thinking of Seeing It
15. Chapter XVIn Which the Bag of Banknotes Disgorges Some Thousands of Pounds More
16. Chapter XVIIn Which Fix Does Not Seem to Understand in the Least What Is Said to Him
17. Chapter XVIIShowing What Happened on the Voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong
18. Chapter XVIIIIn Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix Go Each About His Business
19. Chapter XIXIn Which Passepartout Takes a Too Great Interest in His Master, and What Comes of It
20. Chapter XXIn Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Fogg
21. Chapter XXIIn Which the Master of the “Tankadere” Runs Great Risk of Losing a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds
22. Chapter XXIIIn Which Passepartout Finds Out That, Even at the Antipodes, It Is Convenient to Have Some Money in One’s Pocket
23. Chapter XXIIIIn Which Passepartout’s Nose Becomes Outrageously Long
24. Chapter XXIVDuring Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Ocean
25. Chapter XXVIn Which a Slight Glimpse Is Had of San Francisco
26. Chapter XXVIIn Which Phileas Fogg and Party Travel by the Pacific Railroad
27. Chapter XXVIIIn Which Passepartout Undergoes, at a Speed of Twenty Miles an Hour, a Course of Mormon History
28. Chapter XXVIIIIn Which Passepartout Does Not Succeed in Making Anybody Listen to Reason
29. Chapter XXIXIn Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which Are Only to Be Met with on American Railroads
30. Chapter XXXIn Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty
31. Chapter XXXIIn Which Fix, the Detective, Considerably Furthers the Interests of Phileas Fogg
32. Chapter XXXIIIn Which Phileas Fogg Engages in a Direct Struggle with Bad Fortune
33. Chapter XXXIIIIn Which Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasion
34. Chapter XXXIVIn Which Phileas Fogg at Last Reaches London
35. Chapter XXXVIn Which Phileas Fogg Does Not Have to Repeat His Orders to Passepartout Twice
36. Chapter XXXVIIn Which Phileas Fogg’s Name Is Once More at a Premium on ’Change
37. Chapter XXXVIIIn Which It Is Shown That Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing by His Tour Around the World, Unless It Were Happiness