15 inspiring books for your holiday reading list

But could he even wait till they reached Hong Kong? Fogg had an abominable way of jumping from one boat to another, and, before anything could be effected, might get full under way again for Yokohama.

Fix decided that he must warn the English authorities, and signal the Rangoon before her arrival. This was easy to do, since the steamer stopped at Singapore, whence there is a telegraphic wire to Hong Kong. He finally resolved, moreover, before acting more positively, to question Passepartout. It would not be difficult to make him talk; and, as there was no time to lose, Fix prepared to make himself known.

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
3. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
4. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville
5. Et dukkehjem. English by Henrik Ibsen
6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
7. Il Principe. English by Niccolò Machiavelli
8. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
9. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
10. Dracula by Bram Stoker
11. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
12. The Social Secretary by David Graham Phillips
13. Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
14. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
15. Woman and Her Wits by G. F. Monkshood

It was now the 30th of October, and on the following day the Rangoon was due at Singapore.

Fix emerged from his cabin and went on deck. Passepartout was promenading up and down in the forward part of the steamer. The detective rushed forward with every appearance of extreme surprise, and exclaimed, "You here, on the Rangoon?"