Around the World in Eighty Days
By Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel that chronicles the attempt of an English gentleman and his French valet to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days in order to win a £20,000 wager. The Englishman is Phileas Fogg, who is rich, solitary, and a creature of habits we might describe as obsessive compulsive. His social milieu is largely confined to his membership in the Reform Club, where an argument over an article depicting the opening of an Indian railway section leads to the wager, worth about $2 million today. Fogg develops an itinerary that takes him around the world by rail and steamship through Egypt, India, Hong Kong, Japan, and across the United States, departing October 2, 1872 and returning to London December 21, 80 days later. Needless to say, things don’t always go as planned. Fogg is mistaken for a bank robber in Egypt by a Scotland Yard detective named Fix, who tails him in and out of English territory ever after. In India they rescue a young woman about to be sacrificed who joins their party. Mishaps, wrong turns, bad information, missed connections, kidnapping, hurricanes, and the International Date Line all figure in the tension to make the deadline.
The book appeared in 1873, just after three breakthroughs that made world travel significantly faster: the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, the linking of the Indian railway system in 1870, and the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in America in 1869. It is very much a portrait of the British Empire just before its peak, “on which the sun never sets”, and is his most popular in English.
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Product Details
| Read by: | Mark F. Smith |
| Length: | 7 hours and 32 minutes |
| Type: | Solo readings |
| Media: | MP3 CD |
| Package: | Paper sleeve |
| Item No.: | CD-1181 |
| List Price: | $3.99 |
| Artwork: | Disc contains 300 dpi image files for printing |
| CD label art: | Includes both square JPG and round PNG formats |
| CD jewel case art: | Includes cover, inner insert, and J-card |
| DVD case art: | Includes wrapper for Amaray box and inner insert |
Credits
Production
Book Coordinator: Mark F. Smith
Meta Coordinator: Catharine Eastman
Proof Listener: Ans Wink
Artwork
Cover: Original illustration by Léon Benett from French edition novel of J. Verne "Around the World in Eighty Days", 1872.
Inset: Cover of the French first edition of Around the World in Eighty Days.
Inset: Photograph of Jules Verne c. 1878 by Félix Nadar
Insert: Original illustration by Alphons de Neuvill and/or Léon Benett from French edition novel, p.12, 1872
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Table of Contents
| Track | Chapter | Title | Length |
| 1 | I | IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER THE ONE AS MASTER THE OTHER AS MAN | 11:01 |
| 2 | II | IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS CONVINCED THAT HE HAS AT LAST FOUND HIS IDEAL | 8:39 |
| 3 | III | IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST PHILEAS FOGG DEAR | 15:11 |
| 4 | IV | IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG ASTOUNDS PASSEPARTOUT HIS SERVANT | 7:43 |
| 5 | V | IN WHICH A NEW SPECIES OF FUNDS UNKNOWN TO THE MONEYED MEN APPEARS ON 'CHANGE | 7:07 |
| 6 | VI | IN WHICH FIX THE DETECTIVE BETRAYS A VERY NATURAL IMPATIENCE | 9:26 |
| 7 | VII | IN WHICH ONCE MORE DEMONSTRATES THE USELESSNESS OF PASSPORTS AS AIDS TO DETECTIVES | 6:05 |
| 8 | VIII | IN WHICH ONCE MORE DEMONSTRATES THE USELESSNESS OF PASSPORTS AS AIDS TO DETECTIVES | 8:20 |
| 9 | IX | IN WHICH THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS TO THE DESIGNS OF PHILEAS FOGG | 11:34 |
| 10 | X | IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS ONLY TOO GLAD TO GET OFF WITH THE LOSS OF HIS SHOES | 11:44 |
| 11 | XI | IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SECURES A CURIOUS MEANS OF CONVEYANCE AT A FABULOUS PRICE | 18:51 |
| 12 | XII | IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND HIS COMPANIONS VENTURE | 15:14 |
| 13 | XIII | IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE | 14:00 |
| 14 | XIV | IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG DESCENDS THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEY OF THE GANGES WITHOUT EVER THINKING OF SEEING IT | 13:48 |
| 15 | XV | IN WHICH THE BAG OF BANKNOTES DISGORGES SOME THOUSANDS OF POUNDS MORE | 13:25 |
| 16 | XVI | IN WHICH FIX DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IN THE LEAST WHAT IS SAID TO HIM | 11:26 |
| 17 | XVII | SHOWING WHAT HAPPENED ON THE VOYAGE FROM SINGAPORE TO HONG KONG | 12:34 |
| 18 | XVIII | IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG PASSEPARTOUT AND FIX GO EACH ABOUT HIS BUSINESS | 9:21 |
| 19 | XIX | IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT TAKES A TOO GREAT INTEREST IN HIS MASTER AND WHAT COMES OF IT | 15:00 |
| 20 | XX | IN WHICH FIX COMES FACE TO FACE WITH PHILEAS FOGG | 12:36 |
| 21 | XXI | IN WHICH THE MASTER OF THE "TANKADERE" RUNS GREAT RISK OF LOSING A REWARD OF TWO HUNDRED POUNDS | 17:19 |
| 22 | XXII | IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT FINDS OUT THAT EVEN AT THE ANTIPODES IT IS CONVENIENT TO HAVE SOME MONEY IN ONE'S POCKET | 14:45 |
| 23 | XXIII | IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT'S NOSE BECOMES OUTRAGEOUSLY LONG | 13:47 |
| 24 | XXIV | DURING WHICH MR. FOGG AND PARTY CROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN | 13:51 |
| 25 | XXV | IN WHICH A SLIGHT GLIMPSE IS HAD OF SAN FRANCISCO | 14:28 |
| 26 | XXVI | IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PARTY TRAVEL BY THE PACIFIC RAILROAD | 11:31 |
| 27 | XXVII | IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT UNDERGOES AT A SPEED OF TWENTY MILES AN HOUR A COURSE OF MORMON HISTORY | 13:43 |
| 28 | XXVIII | IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT DOES NOT SUCCEED IN MAKING ANYBODY LISTEN TO REASON | 17:04 |
| 29 | XXIX | IN WHICH CERTAIN INCIDENTS ARE NARRATED WHICH ARE ONLY TO BE MET WITH ON AMERICAN RAILROADS | 14:52 |
| 30 | XXX | IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SIMPLY DOES HIS DUTY | 14:58 |
| 31 | XXXI | IN WHICH FIX THE DETECTIVE CONSIDERABLY FURTHERS THE INTERESTS OF PHILEAS FOGG | 12:29 |
| 32 | XXXII | IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG ENGAGES IN A DIRECT STRUGGLE WITH BAD FORTUNE | 8:00 |
| 33 | XXXIII | IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SHOWS HIMSELF EQUAL TO THE OCCASION | 17:29 |
| 34 | XXIV | IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AT LAST REACHES LONDON | 7:15 |
| 35 | XXXV | IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG DOES NOT HAVE TO REPEAT HIS ORDERS TO PASSEPARTOUT TWICE | 11:51 |
| 36 | XXXVI | IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG'S NAME IS ONCE MORE AT A PREMIUM ON 'CHANGE | 8:07 |
| 37 | XXXVII | IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT PHILEAS FOGG GAINED NOTHING BY HIS TOUR AROUND THE WORLD UNLESS IT WERE HAPPINESS | 7:42 |
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