Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS remains Jules Verne's most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and exciting suspense story.

Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS remains Jules Verne"s most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and exciting suspense story.Together with his manservant, Passepartout, Fogg makes a breathless world tour, overcoming wild misadventures and finding time to rescue a beautiful Indian maharani from a burning funeral pyre--all the while restlessly pursued by a bumbling detective called Mr. Fix. Realistically utilizing nearly every means of transportation known in the 1870s, AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS generated enchantment with scientific progress--and its delightful mixture of fantasy,comedy, and dazzling suspense has kept it a perennially superb entertainment.

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 dear

CHAPTER 4.In which Phileas Fogg astounds Passepartout, his servant

CHAPTER 5.In which a new species of funds, unknown to the moneyed men, appears on "Change

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 secures 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 ensued

CHAPTER 13. In which Passepartout receives a new proof that fortune favours 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 bank-notes 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.In which 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 "Change

CHAPTER 37.In which it is shown that Phileas Fogg gained nothing by his tour around the world, unless it were happiness