Around the World in Eighty Days

We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we’ll read the opening to “Around the World in 80 Days,” a novel by Jules Verne published in 1872. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to snoozecast.com/plus.
In this story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a 20-thousand pound wager ( over two million pounds now) set by his friends. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.

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