# Around the World in Eighty Days — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne.

- [In which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout accept each other, the one as master, the other as man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/i.md): Phileas Fogg, a wealthy and enigmatic member of the Reform Club, lives a meticulously ordered life at 7 Saville Row. After dismissing his servant James Forster for a trivial error, he hires Jean Passepartout, a Frenchman
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/ii.md): Passepartout explores the meticulously organized house on Saville Row, finding it perfectly suited to his desire for a calm, regular life. He observes Mr. Fogg's exacting habits and is impressed by his master's composure
- [In which a conversation takes place which seems likely to cost Phileas Fogg dear](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/iii.md): Phileas Fogg visits the Reform Club, where he learns of a bank robbery. During a game of whist, he argues that the world has grown smaller due to modern transportation and wagers £20,000 that he can circumnavigate the gl
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/iv.md): Phileas Fogg returns home early from the Reform Club, astonishing his servant Passepartout by announcing they must leave for a journey around the world in eighty days. After quickly packing a small carpetbag with essenti
- [Chapter V: In which a new species of funds, unknown to the moneyed men, appears on 'Change.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/v.md): The news of Phileas Fogg's wager spreads through London, sparking intense public debate and betting. Most newspapers dismiss the venture as madness, though a few support him. The Royal Geographical Society publishes a de

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- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [In which Passepartout talks rather more, perhaps, than is prudent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [In which Passepartout is only too glad to get off with the loss of his shoes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/x.md)
- [In which Phileas Fogg secures a curious means of conveyance at a fabulous price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [In which Phileas Fogg and his companions venture across the indian forests, and what ensued.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [In which Passepartout receives a new proof that fortune favors the brave](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [In which Phileas Fogg descends the whole length of the beautiful valley of the Ganges without ever thinking of seeing it.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xiv.md)
- [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xv.md)
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xvi.md)
- [Showing what happened on the voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xvii.md)
- [In which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix go each about his business.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xviii.md)
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xix.md)
- [XX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xx.md)
- [XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxi.md)
- [XXII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxii.md)
- [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxiii.md)
- [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxiv.md)
- [XXV In which a slight glimpse is had of San Francisco](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxv.md)
- [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxvi.md)
- [In which Passepartout undergoes, at a speed of twenty miles an hour, a course of Mormon history.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxvii.md)
- [Chapter XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxviii.md)
- [XXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxix.md)
- [In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxx.md)
- [In which Fix, the detective, considerably furthers the interests of Phileas Fogg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxxi.md)
- [In which Phileas Fogg engages in a direct struggle with bad fortune](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxxii.md)
- [In which Phileas Fogg shows himself equal to the occasion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxxiii.md)
- [In which Phileas Fogg at last reaches London](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxxiv.md)
- [In which Phileas Fogg does not have to repeat his orders to Passepartout twice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxxv.md)
- [In which Phileas Fogg’s name is once more at a premium on ’Change.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxxvi.md)
- [In which it is shown that Phileas Fogg gained nothing by his tour around the world, unless it were happiness](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/around_the_world_in_eighty_days_se/chapters/xxxvii.md)

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