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A beautiful Gift edition for the collector, and perfect for a first reader of this Jules Verne classic.

'A classy edition of a story with enduring appeal. Made me want to go round the world again.' - Michael Palin

Around the World in Eighty Days is an evocation of an era when all travel was an adventure - and Jules Verne's tale of a race against the clock... Read Full Overview

One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands... Read Full Overview

Around the World in Eighty Days has been a bestseller for over a century, but it has never before appeared in a critical edition. While most translations misread or even abridge the original, this stylish version is completely true to Verne's classic, moving as fast and as brilliantly... Read Full Overview

Phileas Fogg is a rich English gentleman living in solitude. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. Very little can be said about his social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed... Read Full Overview

Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses... Read Full Overview

For a bet Phileas Fogg sets out with his servant Passeportout to achieve an incredible journey - from London to Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, San Francisco, New York and back to London again, all in just eighty days. there are many alarms and... Read Full Overview

For a bet Phileas Fogg sets out with his servant Passeportout to achieve an incredible journey - from London to Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, San Francisco, New York and back to London again, all in just eighty days. there are many alarms and... Read Full Overview

Around the World in Eighty Days has been a bestseller for over a century, but it has never before appeared in a critical edition. While most translations misread or even abridge the original, this stylish version is completely true to Verne's classic, moving as fast and as brilliantly... Read Full Overview

Jules Verne's classic tale of Phileas Fogg and his globe-trotting adventure.

La vuelta al mundo en ochenta d as y tambi n en ochenta p ginas , porque en este libro se ha encogido casi todo el planeta Tierra para que a la velocidad de tu vista recorras en ferrocarriles, barco o a veces hasta caminado, el itinerario del distinguido caballero ingl s Phileas... Read Full Overview

Follow the adventures of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout, on a one million pound (in today's money) wager with his friends of the Reform Club!First published in 1873, this book soon became an all-time favourite among teens and young adults all over the world.

Volume 224-1 in the Great Illustrated Classics series, "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne, is a specially adapted version by Marion Leighton.

A Daring Wager!
"Before there were airplanes and high speed travel, Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman,... Read Full Overview

Verne's classic novel of global voyaging