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Adventure

Around the World in Eighty Days

Translated by George Makepeace Towle

On a bet, an eccentric Victorian gentleman races to circumnavigate the globe.

First published
1872
Length
62,892 words
Reading time
About 4 hr 23 min
Language
English (UK)

About the book

Jules Verne’s most-acclaimed novel remains a cultural cornerstone to this day. The story of Phileas Fogg’s spectacular journey by then-novel technologies is a fast-paced, colorful, and thoroughly enjoyable portrait of the British empire at the height of its power.

Originally published as a serial so believable that readers at the time placed bets on whether Fogg would succeed or not, Verne’s adventure epic continues to inspire travelers and adventurers even in modern times.

First published 1872; the Read4Max reading text contains approximately 62,892 words arranged in 37 navigable sections.

The source metadata identifies Translator: George Makepeace Towle.

About the author

Jules Verne

Jules Verne (1828–1905) is described by Wikidata as French writer (1828–1905), with citizenship or national association recorded as France.

Recorded occupations include novelist, playwright, poet, children's writer, writer, and science fiction writer. Languages recorded for Jules Verne include French and Esperanto. Wikidata lists Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island, and Michael Strogoff among Jules Verne's notable works. Open Library identifies Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours as a leading work in its author record. Open Library catalogs 11510 works under this author record. The Read4Max catalog currently includes Around the World in Eighty Days, Five Weeks in a Balloon, From the Earth to the Moon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and The Mysterious Island under Jules Verne's authorship.

Contributors

Translator

George Makepeace Towle

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Themes and ideas

  • Voyages around the world--Fiction

Table of contents

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Show all 37 sections
  1. I
  2. II
  3. III
  4. IV
  5. V
  6. VI
  7. VII
  8. VIII
  9. IX
  10. X
  11. XI
  12. XII
  13. XIII
  14. XIV
  15. XV
  16. XVI
  17. XVII
  18. XVIII
  19. XIX
  20. XX
  21. XXI
  22. XXII
  23. XXIII
  24. XXIV
  25. XXV
  26. XXVI
  27. XXVII
  28. XXVIII
  29. XXIX
  30. XXX
  31. XXXI
  32. XXXII
  33. XXXIII
  34. XXXIV
  35. XXXV
  36. XXXVI
  37. XXXVII