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Around the World in Eighty Days

Name: Around the World in Eighty Days
Author: Jules Verne

Jules Verne · 1873 · 62,372 words

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Phileas Fogg stakes half his fortune at the Reform Club that he can circle the globe in eighty days, then leaves at a quarter to nine that same evening with a carpet-bag and a valet hired that morning: Passepartout, a Parisian ex-circus-rider who does most of the falling over. In India they take a young widow, Aouda, off her husband's funeral pyre, and she travels with them the rest of the way. Detective Fix picks up the trail only at Suez and spends the book a port behind his warrant. Fogg barely looks at the world he crosses, which is the joke. It is a comedy, not a thriller, in George Towle's brisk 1873 English rather than Verne's French.

37 chapters · begin at the beginning

╪IIn which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout accept each other, the one as master, the other as man3:53begin ▸

·IIIn which Passepartout is convinced that he has at last found his ideal2:57sealed

·IIIIn which a conversation takes place which seems likely to cost Phileas Fogg dear5:28sealed

·IVIn which Phileas Fogg astounds Passepartout, his servant2:39sealed

·VIn which a new species of funds, unknown to the moneyed men, appears on ’Change2:28sealed

·VIIn which Fix, the detective, betrays a very natural impatience3:30sealed

·VIIWhich once more demonstrates the uselessness of passports as aids to detectives2:08sealed

·VIIIIn which Passepartout talks rather more, perhaps, than is prudent3:00sealed

·IXIn which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean prove propitious to the designs of Phileas Fogg4:09sealed

·XIn which Passepartout is only too glad to get off with the loss of his shoes4:08sealed

·XIIn which Phileas Fogg secures a curious means of conveyance at a fabulous price6:49sealed

·XIIIn which Phileas Fogg and his companions venture across the Indian forests, and what ensued5:37sealed

·XIIIIn which Passepartout receives a new proof that fortune favors the brave5:27sealed

·XIVIn which Phileas Fogg descends the whole length of the beautiful valley of the Ganges without ever thinking of seeing it5:07sealed

·XVIn which the bag of banknotes disgorges some thousands of pounds more5:03sealed

·XVIIn which Fix does not seem to understand in the least what is said to him4:17sealed

·XVIIShowing what happened on the voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong4:37sealed

·XVIIIIn which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix go each about his business3:36sealed

·XIXIn which Passepartout takes a too great interest in his master, and what comes of it5:43sealed

·XXIn which Fix comes face to face with Phileas Fogg4:47sealed

·XXIIn which the master of the “Tankadere” runs great risk of losing a reward of two hundred pounds6:52sealed

·XXIIIn which Passepartout finds out that, even at the antipodes, it is convenient to have some money in one’s pocket5:33sealed

·XXIIIIn which Passepartout’s nose becomes outrageously long5:13sealed

·XXIVDuring which Mr. Fogg and party cross the Pacific Ocean5:12sealed

·XXVIn which a slight glimpse is had of San Francisco5:24sealed

·XXVIIn which Phileas Fogg and party travel by the Pacific Railroad4:16sealed

·XXVIIIn which Passepartout undergoes, at a speed of twenty miles an hour, a course of Mormon history5:14sealed

·XXVIIIIn which Passepartout does not succeed in making anybody listen to reason6:41sealed

·XXIXIn which certain incidents are narrated which are only to be met with on American railroads5:46sealed

·XXXIn which Phileas Fogg simply does his duty5:52sealed

·XXXIIn which Fix, the detective, considerably furthers the interests of Phileas Fogg4:54sealed

·XXXIIIn which Phileas Fogg engages in a direct struggle with bad fortune2:54sealed

·XXXIIIIn which Phileas Fogg shows himself equal to the occasion6:45sealed

·XXXIVIn which Phileas Fogg at last reaches London2:36sealed

·XXXVIn which Phileas Fogg does not have to repeat his orders to Passepartout twice4:17sealed

·XXXVIIn which Phileas Fogg’s name is once more at a premium on ’Change2:53sealed

·XXXVIIIn which it is shown that Phileas Fogg gained nothing by his tour around the world, unless it were happiness2:37sealed

How long does it take to read Around the World in 80 Days?

Around the World in 80 Days is 62,372 words. At an average adult reading pace of 300 words a minute that is about 3 hr 28 min, or roughly 2 hr 36 min if you read quickly and 5 hr 12 min at a more deliberate 200 words a minute.

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