By Jules Verne, 1873, eBook Made by Penn State University.

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne, first published in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club.

"Jules Verne's masterpiece .. stimulated out childhood and taught us more than all the atlases: the taste of adventure and the love of travel. 'Thirty thousand banknotes for you, Captain, if we reach Liverpool within the hour.' This cry of Phileas Fogg's remains for me the call of the sea." (Jean Cocteau, Mon premier voyage (Tour du monde en 80 jours), Gallimard, 1936).

Jules Verne (1828–1905) was the author of Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and other scientific adventures.

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• Around the World in Eighty Days, available freely at Project Gutenberg (English translation)
• Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, available freely at Project Gutenberg
• Around the World in 80 Days complete HTML version in English with additional content.
• Around the World in Eighty Days - English translation by George Makepeace Towle (1873). HTML format and pictures.
• Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours (PDF version from Gallica – Bibliothèque nationale de France)
• Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours (HTML version from Gallica – Bibliothèque nationale de France)
• Literary analysis of the novels of Jules Verne (French text)

Useful Links about the Author:

• Biography of Jules Verne
• "Jules Verne: Father of Science Fiction?", John Derbyshire, The New Atlantis, Number 12, Spring 2006, pp. 81-90. A review of four new Jules Verne translations from the "Early Classics of Science Fiction" series by Wesleyan University Press.
• Jules Verne at the Internet Book List
• Works by Jules Verne at Project Gutenberg
• Zvi Har'El's Jules Verne Collection, including the Jules Verne Virtual Library, with free online versions of 51 of Jules Verne's novels translated into eight languages.
• Jules Verne French Stamps - 2005, "Les Voyages Extraordinaires"
• Literary analysis of the novels of Jules Verne (French text)
• Jules Verne at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Jules Verne: A Reappraisal, by William Butcher
• Les Voyages Extraordinaires -list of Verne works Compiled by Dennis Kytasaari

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