The Extraordinary Journeys: Around the World in Eighty Days (Oxford World's Classics)

Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Note on the Text and Translation......Page 33
Select Bibliography......Page 38
A Chronology of Jules Verne......Page 43
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS......Page 48
1. In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One as Master and the Other as Servant......Page 54
2. Where Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has Finally Found His Ideal......Page 58
3. Where a Conversation Starts That May Cost Phileas Fogg Dear......Page 62
4. In Which Phileas Fogg Flabbergasts His Servant Passepartout......Page 68
5. In Which a New Stock Appears on the London Exchange......Page 71
6. In Which Detective Fix Shows a Highly Justifiable Impatience......Page 74
7. Which Shows Once More the Uselessness of Passports as a Means of Control......Page 79
8. In Which Passepartout Speaks Perhaps a Little More Freely Than He Should......Page 81
9. Where the Red Sea and Indian Ocean Favour Phileas Fogg's Designs......Page 85
10. Where Passepartout Is Only Too Happy To Get Off With Losing Just His Shoe......Page 90
11. Where Phileas Fogg Buys a Mount at a Fabulous Price......Page 95
12. Where Phileas Fogg and His Companions Venture Through the Indian Jungle, and What Ensues......Page 103
13. In Which Passepartout Proves Once Again That Fortune Favours the Bold......Page 109
14. In Which Phileas Fogg Travels the Whole Length of the Wonderful Ganges Valley Without Even Considering Seeing It......Page 115
15. Where the Bag of Banknotes Is Again Lightened by a Few Thousand Pounds......Page 122
16. Where Fix Gives the Impression of Not Knowing About Events Reported to Him......Page 128
17. Where a Number of Things Happen During the Journey From Singapore to Hong Kong......Page 133
18. In Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix Each Go About Their Business......Page 139
19. Where Passepartout Takes Too Lively an Interest in His Master, and What Happens as a Consequence......Page 143
20. In Which Fix Enters Into a Direct Relationship With Phileas Fogg......Page 149
21. Where the Skipper of the Tankadère Runs a Considerable Risk of Losing a Bonus of £200......Page 155
22. Where Passepartout Realizes That Even at the Antipodes, It Is Wise To Have Some Money in One's Pocket......Page 163
23. In Which Passepartout's Nose Becomes Inordinately Long......Page 169
24. In Which the Pacific Is Crossed......Page 175
25. Where Some Slight Impression Is Given of San Francisco on an Election Day......Page 181
26. In Which We Catch a Pacific Railroad Express......Page 186
27. In Which Passepartout Attends a Lesson on Mormon History at Twenty Miles an Hour......Page 191
28. In Which Passepartout Is Unable To Make Anyone Listen to Reason......Page 197
29. Where a Tale Is Told of Diverse Incidents That Could Happen Only on the Railroads of the Union......Page 205
30. In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty......Page 211
31. In Which Inspector Fix Takes Phileas Fogg's Interests Very Seriously......Page 218
32. In Which Phileas Fogg Engages in a Direct Fight Against Ill-Fortune......Page 223
33. Where Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasion......Page 227
34. Which Provides Passepartout With the Opportunity To Make an Atrocious Pun, Possibly Never Heard Before......Page 235
35. In Which Passepartout Does Not Need To Be Told Twice by His Master......Page 238
36. In Which Phileas Fogg Is Again Quoted on the Options Market......Page 243
37. In Which It Is Proved that Phileas Fogg Has Gained Nothing From His Journey Around the World Unless It Be Happiness......Page 246
Appendix A. Principal Sources......Page 250
Appendix B. The Play......Page 254
Appendix C. 'Around the World' as Seen by the Critics......Page 255
Explanatory Notes......Page 260