Around the World in 80 Days Whole Story

298 Pages·2012·109.15 MB·English

by  Verne Jules

Around the World in Eighty Days
,
Around the World
in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Illustrations by Jame's Prunier
Viking
CONTENTS
1 In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One 7
as Master, the Other as Man.
2 In Which Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has at Last Found 13
His Ideal.
3 In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost 17
Phileas Fogg Dear.
4 In Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout, His Servant. 27
5 In Which a New Species of Funds, Unknown to the Moneyed 33
Men, Appears on 'Change.
6 In Which Fix, the Detective, Betrays a Very Natural Impatience. 38
7 Which Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness of Passports 45
as Aids to Detectives.
8 In Which Passepartout Talks Rather More, Perhaps, Than Is 48
Prudent.
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9 In Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove Propitious to 54
the Designs of Phileas Fogg.
10 In Which Passepartout Is Only Too Glad to Get Off with the Loss 63
of His Shoes.
11 In Which Phileas Fogg Secures a Curious Means of Conveyance 71
at a Fabulous Price.
12 In Which Phileas Fogg and His Companions Venture Across the 84
Indian Forests, and What Ensued.
13 In Which Passepartout Receives a New Proof That Fortune 94
Favors the Brave.
14 In Which Phileas Fogg Descends the Whole Length of the Beautiful 103
Valley of the Ganges Without Ever Thinking of Seeing It.
15 In Which the Bag of Bank-Notes Disgorges Some Thousands of 112
Pounds More.
16 In Which Fix Does Not Seem to Understand in the Least What 121
Is Said to Him.
17 Showing What Happened on the Voyage from Singapore to Hong 128
Kong.
18 In Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix Go Each About His 138
Business.
19 In Which Passepartout Takes a Too Great Interest in His Master, and 145
What Comes of It.
20 In Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Fogg. 155
21 In Which the Master of the Tankadere Runs Great Risk of Losing a 162
Reward of Two Hundred Pounds.
22 In Which Passepartout Finds Out That, Even at the Antipodes, It Is 174
Convenient to Have Some Money in One's Pocket.
23 In Which Passepartout's Nose Becomes Outrageously Long. 183
24 During Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Ocean. 191
25 In Which a Slight Glimpse Is Had of San Francisco. 198
26 In Which Phileas Fogg and Party Travel by the Pacific Railroad. 208
27 In Which Passepartout Undergoes, at a Speed of Twenty Miles an 215
Hour, a Course of Mormon History.
28 In Which Passepartout Does Not Succeed in Making Anybody 222
Listen to Reason.
29 In Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which Are Only to Be 232
Met with on American Railroads.
30 In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty. 242
31 In Which Fix the Detective Considerably Furthers the Interests of 251
Phileas Fogg.
32 In Which Phileas Fogg Engages in a Direct Struggle with Bad 259
Fortune.
33 In Which Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasion. 265
34 In Which Phileas Fogg at Last Reaches London. 276
35 In Which Phileas Fogg Does Not Have to Repeat His' Orders to 280
Passepartout Twice.
36 In Which Phileas Fogg's Name Is Once More at a Premium on 286
'Change.
37 In Which It Is Shown That Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing by His 292
Tour Around the World, Unless It Were Happiness.
•• When he
breakfasted or dined
all the resources of
the club-its
kitchens and
pantries, its buttery
and dairy-aided to
crowd his table with
their most
succulent stores."
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IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT
ACCEPT EACH OTHER, THE ONE AS MASTER,
THE OTHER AS MAN.
Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No.7, Saville Row,
Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. Lord Byron, depicted here
at age 25 by James
He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Holmes (1777-1860),
wrote poems of
Club though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an
disillusionment and
rebellion. He came to
enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except
symbolize the Romantic
hero after his death in
that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he
1824 of a fever caught
resembled Byron-at least that his head was Byronic; but he while fighting against
the Turks for Greek
was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand independence.
years without growing old.
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Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether
Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was never seen on 'Change,
nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City";
no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the
owner; he had no public employment; he had never been
entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or
Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded
in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's
Bench or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He certainly was not a
manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer.
Jules Verne (1828-1905)
His name was strange to the scientific and learned societies,
as photographed by
Nadar (1820-1910), the and he never was known to take part in the sage deliberations
French artist, writer, and
celebrated photographer, of the Royal Institution or the London Institution, the
who took the first aerial
photographs from a Artisan's Association or the Institution of Arts and Sciences.
balloon. Although Verne
wrote mainly for young He belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which
people, his novels
translated into 25 swarm in the English capital, from the Harmonic to that of the
languages-were just as
popular with adults. As a Entomologists, founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing
pioneer of science fiction,
pernicious insects.
he anticipated many
technological devel
Phileas Fogg was a member of the Reform, and that was all.
opments with startling
accuracy.
The way in which he got admission to this exclusive club
was si~ple enough.
He was recommended by the Barings,
with whom he had an open
credit. His cheques were
regularly paid at sight
from his account current,
which was always flush.
Was Phileas Fogg
rich? Undoubtedly. But
No. 172G.-VOL. LXI. SATUHDAY, OCTOIlER 6, 1872.
those who knew him
The Illustrated London best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and
News, founded in 1842,
was one of the Mr. Fogg was the last person to whom to apply
newspapers available to
the gentlemen of the
Reform Club.
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for the information. He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary,
avaricious for whenever he knew that money was needed for a .
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noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and
sometimes anonymously. He was, in short, the least
communicative of men. He talked very little and seemed all the
more mysterious for his taciturn manner. His daily habits were
quite open to observationj but whatever he did was so exactly Turned countless times by
the hands of Jules Verne,
the same thing that he had always done before, that the wits of this globe provided
geographic data that
the curious were fairly puzzled. placed his extravagant
tales in a convincingly
Had he traveled? It was likely, for no one seemed to know realistic context.
the world more familiarly there was no spot so secluded
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that he did not appear to have an intimate
acquaintance with it. He often corrected, with a
few clear words, the thousand conjectures
advanced by members of the club as to lost
and unheard-of travelers, pointing out the
true probabilities, and seeming as if gifted
with a sort of second sight, so often did
events justify his predictions. He must
have traveled everywhere, at least in the
spirit.
It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg
had not absented himself from London for
many years. Those who were honored by a
better acquaintance with him than the rest, declared
that nobody could pretend to have ever seen him anywhere
else. His sole pastimes were reading the papers and playing
whist. He often won at this game, which, as a silent one,
harmonized with his naturej but his winnings never went into
his purse, being reserved as a fund for his charities. Mr. Fogg
played, not to win, but for the sake of playing. The game
was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a
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difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his
tastes.
Phileas Fogg was not known to have either wife or children,
which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives
or near friends, which is certainly more unusual. He lived alone
in his house in Saville Row, whither none penetrated. A single
domestic sufficed to serve him. He breakfasted and dined at the
club, at hours mathematically fixed, in the same room, at the
same table, never taking his meals with other members, much
•• It was at least less bringing a guest with him; and went home at exactly
certain that Phileas Fogg . . .
· lf mldmght, only to retue at once to bed. He never used the cozy
h a d not a bs ente d hlmse
from London for many chambers which the Reform provides for its favored members.
years.~~
either in sleeping or making his toilet. When he chose to take a
walk it was with a regular step in the entrance hall with its
mosaic flooring, or in the circular gallery with its dome
supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns, and illumined
by blue painted windows. When he breakfasted or dined all the
resources of the club-its kitchens and pantries, its buttery and
dairy-aided to crowd his table with their most succulent
Richard Sheridan-the
stores; he was served by the gravest waiters, in dress coats, and Dublin-born playwright
whose comic character
shoes with swan-skin soles, who proffered the viands in special
Mrs. Malaprop, in The
Rivals, gave the English
porcelain, and on the finest linen; club decanters, of a lost
language the word
malapropism-died in this
mold, contained his sherry, his port, and his cinnamon-spiced
home at 7 Savile Row, off
claret; while his beverages were refreshingly cooled with ice, Regent Street in London,
a century before Verne
brought at great cost from the American lakes. gave Phileas Fogg the
same elegant address.
If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed Verne spelled the street
name "Saville."
that there is something good in eccentricity.
The mansion in Saville Row, though not sumptuous, was
exceedingly comfortable. The habits of its occupant were such
as to demand but little from the sole domestic, but Phileas Fogg
required him to be almost superhumanly prompt and regular.
On this very 2nd of October he had dismissed James Forster,
because that luckless youth had brought him shaving-water at
eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit instead of eighty-six; and he was
awaiting his successor, who was due at the house between
eleven and half-past.
Phileas Fogg was seated squarely in his armchair, his feet An eighteenth-century
clock belonging to
close together like those of a grenadier on parade, his hands
Sheridan. Verne imagined
Phileas Fogg using this
resting on his knees, his body straight, his head erect; he was
kind of timepiece to
calculate the hours,
steadily watching a complicated clock which indicated the
minutes, and seconds in
hours, the minutes, the seconds, the days, the months, and the his meticulously planned
schedule.
years. At exactly half-past eleven Mr. Fogg would, according to
his daily habit, quit Saville Row, and repair to the Reform.
A rap at this moment sounded on the door of the cozy
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