The dishes, of bell metal, were placed on the table, and we took our places. Undoubtedly we had to do with civilised people, and, had it not been for ...

“Well, we are really in America,” thought Passepartout, “and the conductor is a gentleman of the first order!” So muttering, he followed his master. T...

approached the Straits of Malacca, which gave access to the China seas.

Now that he was fully convinced, Fix had quite recovered his equanimity. He passes himself off as an odd stick who is going round the world in eighty ...

He had chosen this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the Eastern authors. Through this work I obtained a cursory...