Complete Novel Around The World in Eighty Days – Phileas Fogg, a stern and disciplined man claims that it is possible to go around the world in eighty days. He is challenged to accomplish this feat himself.🌍🙌
Chapter 7 The detective passed down the quay, and rapidly made his way to the consul’s office, where he was at once admitted to the presence of that official.“Consul,” said he, without preamble, “I have strong reasons for believing that my man is a passenger on the Mongolia.” And he narrated what had just passed […]
Which once more demonstrates the uselessness of passports as aids to detectives Read More »
Chapter 6 The circumstances under which this telegraphic despatch about Phileas Fogg was sent were as follows: –The steamer Mongolia, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, built of iron, of two thousand eight hundred tons burden, and five hundred horse-power, was due at eleven o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 9th of October, at Suez.
In which Fix, the detective, betrays a very natural impatience Read More »
Chapter 5 Phileas Fogg rightly suspected that his departure from London would create a lively sensation at the West End.The news of the bet spread through the Reform Club, and afforded an exciting topic of conversation to its members. From theClub it soon got into the papers throughout England. The boasted “tour of the world”
In which a new species of funds, unknown to the moneyed men, appears on ’change Read More »
Chapter 4 Having won twenty guineas at whist, and taken leave of his friends, Phileas Fogg, at twenty-five minutes past seven, left the Reform Club.Passepartout, who had conscientiously studied the programme of his duties, was more than surprised to see his master guilty of the inexactness of appearing at this unaccustomed hour; for, according to
In which Phileas Fogg astounds Passepartout, his servant Read More »
Chapter 3 Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club, an imposing edifice in Pall Mall, which could not have cost
In which a conversation takes place which seems likely to cost Phileas Fogg dear Read More »
Chapter 2 Faith, muttered Passepartout, somewhat flurried, “I’ve seen people at Madame Tussaud’s as lively as my new master!”Madame Tussaud’s ‘people’, let it be known, are made of wax, and are much visited in London; only the speech is missing, to make them human.During his brief interview with Mr. Fogg, Passepartout had been carefully observing
In which Passepartout is convinced that he has at last found his ideal Read More »
Chapter 1 Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical person about whom little was known, except that he was
In which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout accept each other, as master and man Read More »