JULES VERNE (1828--1905). Often overlooked by English critics, Verne was a prolific writer whose work combined a vivid imagination with a gift for popularizing science and travel. He remains among the classics of nineteenth-century French literature.

Introducing the memorable figure of Phileas Fogg, Around the World in Eighty Days became an instant success on its publication in I873. It remains almost un surpassed as a piece of adventure fiction.

Phileas Fogg is the most laconic and orderly of men. His house in Saville Row is run like clockwork and his routine is meticulous. Passepartout, his new servant, is looking for a quiet life, but he is to be disappointed: on the very day he is employed, his master tells him to pack at once for a journey around the world.

At his club that day, Fogg bet half his fortune that he could travel the world in an easterly direction in eighty days; so he and Passepartout begin their voyage. But Detective Fix of Scotland Yard finds it coincidental that Fogg should want to escape England in such a hurry while there is a robber on the loose. Convinced they are one and the same person he joins them on the first leg of their epic travels.

A race against time to save face and fortune, Around the World in Eighty Days is both a thrilling and humorous adventure and a classic story of travel in an age gone by.

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER, THE ONE AS MASTER, THE OTHER AS SERVANT

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS CONVINCED THAT HE HAS AT LAST FOUND HIS IDEAL

IN WinCH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST PHILEAS FOGG DEAR

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG . ASTOUNDS PASSEPARTOUT, HIS SERVANT

IN WHICH A NEW SPECIES OF BONDS APPEARS ON THE LONDON EXCHANGE

IN WHICH FIX, THE DETECTIVE, BETRAYS A VERY NATURAL IMPATIENCE

WHICH ONCE MORE DEMONSTRATES THE USELESSNESS OF PASSPORTS AS AIDS TO DETECTIVES

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT TALKS RATHER MORE, PERHAPS, THAN IS PRUDENT

IN WmCH THE RED SEA AND. THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS TO THE DESIGNS OF PHILEAS FOGG

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS ONLY TOO GLAD TO GET OFF WITH THE LOSS OF HIS SHOES

IN WinCH Pin.AS FOGG SECURES A CuRIous MEANS OF CONVEYANCE AT a FABULOUS PRICE

IN WINCH PHILEAS Fooo AND HIS COMPANIONs VENTURE ACROSS THE INDIAN FORESTS, AND WHAT ENSUES

IN WinCH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE

IN WincH PHILEAS FOGG DESCENDS  THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEY OF THE GANGES WITHOUT EVER THINKING OF SEEING IT

IN WHICH THE BAG OF BANK NOTES BECOMES LIGHTER BY THOUSANDS OF POUNDS

IN WincH FIX DoES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IN THE LEAST WHAT IS SAID TO HIM

SHOWING WHAT HAPPENS OH THE VOYAGE FROM SINGAPORE TO HONG KONO

IN WHICH PHILEAs FOGG PASSEPARTOUT, AND FIX EACH GOES ABOUT HIS BUSINESS

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT TAKES TOO GREAT AN INTEREST IN HIS MASTER, AND WHAT COMES OF IT

IN WHICH FIX COMES FACE TO FACE WITH PHILEAS FOGG

IN WHICH THE MASTER OF THE TANKADERE RUNS GREAT RISK OF LOSING A REWARD OF TWO HUNDRED POUNDS

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT FINDS OUT THAT, EVEN AT THE ANTIPODES, IT Is CONVENIENT TO HAVE SOME MONEY IN ONE"S POCKET

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT"S NOSE BECOMES OUTRAGEOUSLY LONG

DURING.WHICH MR. FOGG AND PARTY CROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN

IN WINCH A SLIGHT GLIMPSE IS HAD OF SAN FRANCISCO

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PARTY TRAVEL BY THE PACIFIC RAILROAD

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT UNDERGOES, AT A SPEED OF TWENTY MILES AN HOUR, A COURSE OF MORMON HISTORY

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT DOES NOT SUCCEED IN MAKING ANYONE LISTEN TO REAON

IN WHICH CERTAIN INCIDENTS ARE NARRATED WHICH ARE ONLY TO BE MET WITH ON AMERICAN RALROADS

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SIMPLY DOES HIS DUTY

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