Around the World in Eighty Days, Part 6: The Typhoon · Jules Verne — Mono Noir Classics

THE CLASSIC, FULLY DRAMATIZED. Part 6 of 11: The Typhoon. 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.

In Hong Kong a detective takes a Frenchman to a tavern on the quay, and what happens there leaves Mr. Fogg short of a servant and of a steamer. He finds another way: the Tankadere, a small pilot-cutter, and her captain, who will take him to Shanghai through a sea in the typhoon season, for a handsome reward if he is in time. The storm tests the little ship and her captain, and a signal gun decides the rest.

In this part:
0:00 Introduction
0:56 Chapter XIX: In which Passepartout takes too keen an interest in his master, and what ensues
12:01 Chapter XX: In which Fix comes into direct contact with Phileas Fogg
24:29 Chapter XXI: In which the master of the Tankadere runs a great risk of losing a bonus of two hund...

Listen in order: this is Part 6 of 11. Next: Part 7, The Long Noses.

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 3:40:10). Read along with the full text of every part at https://matezz.com/classics/around-the-world-in-eighty-days/