Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne · translated by George Makepeace Towle
On a bet, an eccentric Victorian gentleman races to circumnavigate the globe.
37 chapters · 62,734 words · about 5 hours
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About this 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.
About this edition
This edition comes from Standard Ebooks, whose volunteers carefully proofread public-domain books and give their own work to the public domain too. The book is in the public domain in the US, and wherever copyright ends 70 years after its author’s death, so you’re free to read, copy and share it.
The cover is adapted from Train on the Way, a painting completed circa 1895 by Isaac Ilyich Levitan.