Volume 05 · Forthcoming
Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
Annotated
Jules Verne’s race around the globe in its complete French text, with focused notes on time, transport, geography and the nineteenth-century colonial gaze.
About the work
A landmark mystery, returned to its full narrative force.
Phileas Fogg wagers that the new steamship and railway networks have made it possible to circle the world in eighty days. Accompanied by Passepartout and pursued by Inspector Fix, he discovers that precision alone cannot master a world in motion. This edition keeps all thirty-seven chapters and adds concise historical and geographical bearings.
Textual source. Complete French text first published in 1872, checked against public-domain nineteenth-century editions.
What this edition adds
Care around the text,
never over it.
The complete journey
All thirty-seven chapters preserve the itinerary, pacing and reversals of Verne’s 1872 novel.
Time and distance made clear
Notes explain the wager, the transport network, currencies and the date-line solution.
A critical historical lens
The apparatus identifies period stereotypes and colonial assumptions without rewriting the original.
Accessible by design
Reflowable text, semantic navigation, descriptive links and alternative text support flexible reading.