THE CLASSIC, FULLY DRAMATIZED. Part 10 of 11: Sails on the Snow. 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.

At a snowbound station on the plains two people wait for news of a rescue party, one of them a detective who no longer knows what he wants. Then the great race east: a sledge with a sail running over the frozen prairie, Chicago, New York, and the harbour, where the liner for Liverpool has left forty-five minutes before. Mr. Fogg, who never improvises, improvises.

In this part:
0:00 Introduction
0:55 Chapter XXX: In which Phileas Fogg simply does his duty
12:19 Chapter XXXI: In which Inspector Fix takes the interests of Phileas Fogg very seriously
26:19 Chapter XXXII: In which Phileas Fogg engages in a direct struggle against ill luck
35:18 Chapter XXXIII: In which Phileas Fogg shows himself equal to the occasion

Listen in order: this is Part 10 of 11. Next: Part 11, The Eightieth Day.

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 6:27:19). Read along with the full text of every part at https://matezz.com/classics/around-the-world-in-eighty-days/