The Tour of the World in Eighty Days (Google eBook)

Jules Verne

National Book Company, 1887 - 320 pages

What people are saying

User Review -

Thhis book is in very bad shape and needs to bew rescanned without thumbs and fingers on the pages. Needs higher dpi too it is a smsall book.

User Review -

I love this book! And the evidence of bookworms on the scanned pages (not fingers, as believed by another reviewer)only adds to the experience. One could easily read the text-only version, but this is far better, in my old-fashioned opinion. Also, I loved critiquing the 19th century viewpoint on many subjects, esp Mormons and Indians (both Eastern and American). And I find myself fascinated by the flow of Mr. Verne's 19th century English. I've clipped several passages which include interesting words and turns of phrase. Here's one: "It is seen that the aforementioned Fix was not wanting in a certain amount of self conceit." (page 41). All in all, a great way to read a classic book whilst living a modern lifestyle. 

Contents

• in Police Matters: 45
• In which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean show them: 55
• In which Passepartout is only too happy to get off with: 63
• In which Phileas Fogg buys a Conveyance at a fabulous: 71
• In which Passepartout proves again that Fortune Smiles: 92
• In which Phileas Fogg descends the entire splendid: 101
• In which the Bag with the Banknotes is relieved of: 111
• In which Fix has not the appearance of knowing any: 121
• In which one thing and another is talked about during: 129
• In which Phileas Fogg Passepartout and Fix each: 138
• In which Fix comes in direct contact with Phineas Fogg: 168
• In which Passepartout sees very well that even at: 178
• In which Passepartouts Nose is lengthened enor: 188
• During which is accomplished the Voyage across: 198
• In which a slight glimpse of San Francisco is had: 207
• In which our Party take the Express Train on: 217
• In which Passepartout follows with a speed of twenty: 225
• In which Passepartout could not succeed in making: 234
• In which Certain incidents are related only to be: 246
• In which Phileas Fogg simply does his Duty: 257
• In which the Detective Fix takes seriously in charge: 268
• In which Phileas Fogg engages in a direct struggle: 277
• CHAPTER XXXHJ In which Phileas Fogg shows himself equal to cir: 284
• Which gives Passepartout the opportunity of letting: 296
• In which Phileas Fogg is again at a Premium: 309
• In which t is proved that Phileas Fogg has gained: 315

Popular passages

Page 125 - Bengal was favourable to the steamer's progress. The Rangoon soon sighted the great Andaman, the principal one of the group of islands, which is distinguished by navigators at a great distance by the picturesque Saddle Peak Mountain, two thousand four hundred feet high. They kept pretty close to the coast. The savage Papuans of the island did not show themselves. They are beings in the lowest grade of humanity, but they have been wrongfully called cannibals. The panoramic development of this island...‎

Page 99 - What madness !" and now he repeated, " Why not, after all ? It is a chance, perhaps the only one, and with such brutes — " At all events, Passepartout did not put his thought into any other shape, but he was not slow in sliding down, with the ease of a snake, on the lower branches of the tree, the end of which bent toward the ground. The hours were passing, and soon a few less sombre shades announced the approach of day.‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Tour of the World in Eighty Days
• Author: Jules Verne
• Publisher: National Book Company, 1887
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Dec 17, 2004
• Length: 320 pages