Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
English • 1872 • Public Domain • Free to stream
Around the World in Eighty Days, published in 1872, is the most purely enjoyable novel Jules Verne ever wrote. Phileas Fogg, a wealthy and precise English gentleman, wagers his entire fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his new manservant Passepartout, he sets off immediately — pursued by a Scotland Yard detective who believes him to be a bank robber. The race becomes a thriller as every delay threatens to cost Fogg everything.
Verne wrote the novel at the height of the railway and steamship age, when the world was shrinking. The book captures that moment perfectly — the thrill of speed, the shrinking of distance, and the comedy of an Englishman trying to impose order on a chaotic world. It remains one of the most readable adventure novels ever written. The book is in the public domain and streams free here — no signup, no subscription, no ads.
About the book: Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. The story began serialization in Le Temps on 6 November 1872, published in instalments over the next 45 days. The book was written during difficult times for Verne, amidst the Franco-Prussian War in which he was conscripted as a coastguard, recent financial difficulties, the recent death of his father, and a public execution that disturbed him.
In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Jean Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works, capturing the fascination with technological innovations of the 19th century that opened the possibility of rapid circumnavigation.
Jules Verne was conscripted as a coastguard during the Franco-Prussian War, which coincided with the difficult period when the book was written.
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