Around the World in Eighty Days, Part 5: The Last English Ground · Jules Verne — Mono Noir Classics

THE CLASSIC, FULLY DRAMATIZED. Part 5 of 11: The Last English Ground. Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days in a new English translation made for this production directly from Verne's French, acted by a full cast with music and sound.

From Calcutta by steamer through the Bay of Bengal, the Strait of Malacca and the China Sea to Hong Kong, the last ground where an English warrant has any force. Mr. Fogg keeps Aouda company and the timetable; Fix, aboard in hiding, keeps his eyes on both, and discovers that bad weather may be his best ally. A gale delays the Rangoon at the last, and at Hong Kong every hour matters.

In this part:
0:00 Introduction
0:56 Chapter XVI: In which Fix does not seem to know anything at all about the things he is told
13:01 Chapter XVII: In which there is talk of one thing and another during the voyage from Singapore to...
27:44 Chapter XVIII: In which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout and Fix each go about his own business
38:07 Chapter XIX: In which Passepartout takes too keen an interest in his master, and what ensues

Listen in order: this is Part 5 of 11. Next: Part 6, The Typhoon.

Jules Verne's novel, complete and in order, in our own English translation from his French (Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, 1872-73), made by Mono Noir with AI assistance. A few words of period language that are unkind to the peoples they describe are softened; Verne's own slips of fact and arithmetic are left as he wrote them.

This audio drama uses an AI-assisted English translation, AI-generated voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.

The complete eight-hour audiobook, with all 37 chapters, is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJEW7-CDeu8 (this part starts at 2:58:22). Read along with the full text of every part at https://matezz.com/classics/around-the-world-in-eighty-days/