Around the World in Eighty Days, Part 8: Ocean to Ocean · Jules Verne — Mono Noir Classics

THE CLASSIC, FULLY DRAMATIZED. Part 8 of 11: Ocean to Ocean. 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.

San Francisco on election day: the travellers' first hours on American soil are a street brawl, a smashed hat and an insult that Colonel Stamp Proctor does not intend to forget. Then the Pacific Railroad, a continent at twenty miles an hour, and a neighbour in the next seat who gives Passepartout a thorough course in the history of the Mormons.

In this part:
0:00 Introduction
0:52 Chapter XXV: In which a slight sketch is given of San Francisco on a day of public meeting
15:24 Chapter XXVI: In which the express train of the Pacific Railroad is taken
28:09 Chapter XXVII: In which Passepartout follows, at a speed of twenty miles an hour, a course of Mor...

Listen in order: this is Part 8 of 11. Next: Part 9, Simply His Duty.

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 5:06:34). Read along with the full text of every part at https://matezz.com/classics/around-the-world-in-eighty-days/