The Purchase of the North Pole or, Topsy Turvy (1889)
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I In Which The North Polar Practical Association Rushes a Document Across Two Worlds
CHAPTER II In Which the Delegates from England, Holland, Sweden, Denmark And Russia Are Presented to the Reader.
CHAPTER III In Which the Arctic Regions are Sold at Auction to the Highest Bidder.
CHAPTER IV In Which Old Acquaintances Appear to Our New Readers, and in Which a Wonderful Man is Described.
CHAPTER V In which the possibility that coal mines surround the north pole is considered.
CHAPTER VI In Which a Telephone Communication Between Mrs. Scorbitt and J.T. Maston is Interrupted
CHAPTER VII In Which President Barbicane Says No More Than Suits His Purpose.
CHAPTER VIII Yes, Just Like Jupiter.
CHAPTER IX In Which Appears the French Gentleman to Whom We Referred at the Beginning of this Truthful Story.
CHAPTER X In Which a Little Uneasiness Begins to Show Itself.
CHAPTER XI What Was Found in the Notebook of J.T. Maston and What It No Longer Contained.
CHAPTER XII In Which J.T. Maston Heroically Continues to Be Silent.
CHAPTER XIII At the Close of Which J.T. Maston Utters an Epigram.
CHAPTER XIV Very Short, But in Which “X” Takes a Geographical Value.
CHAPTER XV Which Contains a Few Interesting Details for the Inhabitants of the Earthly Sphere.
CHAPTER XVI In Which a Crowd of Dissatisfied People Break Into the Cell of J. T. Maston.
CHAPTER XVII What Had Been Done at Kilimanjaro During Eight Month of this Memorable Year.
CHAPTER XVIII In Which the Population of Wamasai Assemble to Hear President Barbicane Say “fire” to Capt. Nicholl.
CHAPTER XIX In Which J.T. Maston Regrets that the Crowd Did Not Lynch Him When He was in Prison.
CHAPTER XX In Which this Story, as Truthful as it is Improbable, is Finished.
CHAPTER XXI Very Short, Since Enough has been Said to Make the World’s Population Feel Perfectly Sure Again.