Around the World in Eighty Days, Part 1: The Wager · Jules Verne — Mono Noir Classics

THE CLASSIC, FULLY DRAMATIZED. Part 1 of 11: The Wager. 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.

London, Wednesday the second of October, 1872. Phileas Fogg, the most exact and least communicative member of the Reform Club, engages a new manservant, Passepartout, at half past eleven in the morning; by the evening he has wagered twenty thousand pounds, half his fortune, that he can travel round the whole world in eighty days. With a carpet-bag, a railway guide and a servant who has just remembered something he left burning, he catches the Dover train.

In this part:
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Chapter I: In which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout accept each other, the one as master, the other...
11:48 Chapter II: In which Passepartout is convinced that he has at last found his ideal
20:41 Chapter III: In which a conversation begins that may cost Phileas Fogg dear
36:01 Chapter IV: In which Phileas Fogg astounds Passepartout, his servant

Listen in order: this is Part 1 of 11. Next: Part 2, The Detective.

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 0:00:00). Read along with the full text of every part at https://matezz.com/classics/around-the-world-in-eighty-days/