Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne, 1873

Phileas Fogg bets his fortune that he can circle the globe in eighty days, with a detective on his trail.

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37 chapters · 4 h 30 min

Chapter 1In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One as Master, the Other as Man6 min
Chapter 2In Which Passepartout is Convinced That He Has at Last Found His Ideal5 min
Chapter 3In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dear9 min
Chapter 4In Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout, His Servant4 min
Chapter 5In Which a New Species of Funds, Unknown to the Moneyed Men, Appears on ’change4 min
Chapter 6In Which Fix, the Detective, Betrays a Very Natural Impatience6 min
Chapter 7Which Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness of Passports as Aids to Detectives3 min
Chapter 8In Which Passepartout Talks Rather More, Perhaps, Than is Prudent5 min
Chapter 9In Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove Propitious to the Designs of Phileas Fogg7 min
Chapter 10In Which Passepartout is Only Too Glad to Get Off with the Loss of His Shoes7 min
Chapter 11In Which Phileas Fogg Secures a Curious Means of Conveyance at a Fabulous Price11 min
Chapter 12In Which Phileas Fogg and His Companions Venture Across the Indian Forests, and What Ensued9 min
Chapter 13In Which Passepartout Receives a New Proof That Fortune Favors the Brave9 min
Chapter 14In Which Phileas Fogg Descends the Whole Length of the Beautiful Valley of the Ganges Without Ever Thinking of Seeing It8 min
Chapter 15In Which the Bag of Banknotes Disgorges Some Thousands of Pounds More8 min
Chapter 16In Which Fix Does Not Seem to Understand in the Least What is Said to Him7 min
Chapter 17Showing What Happened on the Voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong7 min
Chapter 18In Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix Go Each About His Business6 min
Chapter 19In Which Passepartout Takes a Too Great Interest in His Master, and What Comes of It9 min
Chapter 20In Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Fogg8 min
Chapter 21In Which the Master of the “tankadere” Runs Great Risk of Losing a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds11 min
Chapter 22In Which Passepartout Finds Out That, Even at the Antipodes, It is Convenient to Have Some Money in One’s Pocket9 min
Chapter 23In Which Passepartout’s Nose Becomes Outrageously Long8 min
Chapter 24During Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Ocean8 min
Chapter 25In Which a Slight Glimpse is Had of San Francisco9 min
Chapter 26In Which Phileas Fogg and Party Travel by the Pacific Railroad7 min
Chapter 27In Which Passepartout Undergoes, at a Speed of Twenty Miles an Hour, a Course of Mormon History8 min
Chapter 28In Which Passepartout Does Not Succeed in Making Anybody Listen to Reason11 min
Chapter 29In Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which Are Only to Be Met with on American Railroads9 min
Chapter 30In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty9 min
Chapter 31In Which Fix, the Detective, Considerably Furthers the Interests of Phileas Fogg8 min
Chapter 32In Which Phileas Fogg Engages in a Direct Struggle with Bad Fortune5 min
Chapter 33In Which Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasion11 min
Chapter 34In Which Phileas Fogg at Last Reaches London4 min
Chapter 35In Which Phileas Fogg Does Not Have to Repeat His Orders to Passepartout Twice7 min
Chapter 36In Which Phileas Fogg’s Name is Once More at a Premium on ’change5 min
Chapter 37In Which It is Shown That Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing by His Tour Around the World, Unless It Were Happiness4 min