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Taking up a challenge from his whist partners, a mysterious English gentleman named Phileas Fogg wagers half his fortune and abandons his quiet domestic routine to undertake a daring feat: to circle the globe in a mere 80 days, an achievement unheard of in the Victorian world... 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

Historias para no dejar de so?ar. Disfruta de una apasionante aventura con este ?lbum ilustrado. Todo empez? como un juego, con una apuesta un tanto peculiar... El elegante y discreto Phileas Fogg y su fiel criado Passepartout aceptan el desaf?o y se preparan para el viaje... 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

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate... 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

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

Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg wagers half his fortune on the astounding proposition that he can travel all the way around the world in just 80 days. So begins this classic 1873 tale of adventure, entertainment, and suspense, as Fogg and his French valet, Passepartout, circle... 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

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

" S]tudents clamoring for more books with STEAM experiments and fun facts would enjoy these two titles."--School Library Connection

La vuelta al mundo en ochenta d as es una de las obras m s divertidas y apasionantes de Julio Verne, el considerado pionero de la ciencia ficci n, ya que en muchos de sus libros se anticipa imaginando progresos para la humanidad. La novela fue publicada por entregas en el peri... Read Full Overview

Verne's classic novel of global voyaging

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

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

Passepartout croyait avoir trouv? le ma?tre id?al, celui qui lui permettrait de vivre une vie de domestique de tout repos : non pas un homme, mais une v?ritable m?canique, parfaitement pr?visible et s?dentaire... Mais voil? qu'? la suite d'un pari, l'honorable et toujours flegmatique... Read Full Overview

First published in 1872, 'Around the World in Eighty Days' is an adventure fiction novel by Jules Verne, a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne's writings laid the foundation of modern science fiction quite considerably.

In the story, Phileas Fogg, a solitary... Read Full Overview

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