Around the World in Eighty Days
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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 personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron—at least that his head was Byronic; but he was…
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- AuthorJules Verne
- SourceProject Gutenberg #103
- Length62,589 words · 4h 10m of reading
- Chapters8
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
8 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01CHAPTER IV. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG ASTOUNDS PASSEPARTOUT, HIS SERVANT
- 02CHAPTER XX. IN WHICH FIX COMES FACE TO FACE WITH PHILEAS FOGG
- 03CHAPTER XXIII. IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT’S NOSE BECOMES OUTRAGEOUSLY LONG
- 04CHAPTER XXIV. DURING WHICH MR. FOGG AND PARTY CROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN
- 05CHAPTER XXV. IN WHICH A SLIGHT GLIMPSE IS HAD OF SAN FRANCISCO
- 06CHAPTER XXX. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SIMPLY DOES HIS DUTY
- 07CHAPTER XXXIII. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SHOWS HIMSELF EQUAL TO THE OCCASION
- 08CHAPTER XXXIV. IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AT LAST REACHES LONDON
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