Around the World in Eighty Days, Part 3: The Elephant · Jules Verne — Mono Noir Classics

THE CLASSIC, FULLY DRAMATIZED. Part 3 of 11: The Elephant. 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.

Bombay, a day early. Passepartout's curiosity costs him his shoes in a temple, Fix cannot get his warrant and follows the travellers anyway, and the railway across India stops short of where the map says it should end. Mr. Fogg solves the problem by buying an elephant at a price no elephant ever fetched, and the little party sets out into the forests, where they meet a procession they had not expected.

In this part:
0:00 Introduction
0:50 Chapter X: In which Passepartout is only too glad to get off with the loss of his shoes
12:53 Chapter XI: In which Phileas Fogg buys a mount at a fabulous price
32:12 Chapter XII: In which Phileas Fogg and his companions venture through the forests of India, and w...

Listen in order: this is Part 3 of 11. Next: Part 4, The Rescue.

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 1:27:20). Read along with the full text of every part at https://matezz.com/classics/around-the-world-in-eighty-days/