Around the World in Eighty Days
Author: Jules Verne, Andrew Brown and Ross Collins Series: Alma Junior Classics
Now presented in a new translation with illustrations by Ross Collins, Around the World in Eighty Days is part of Alma Junior Classics. It contains extra material for young readers, including a profile of the author, a section on the book, a list of characters, a glossary and a test-yourself quiz.
A brand-new translation of Jules Verne’s classic adventure story which has been adapted numerous times for the stage and the screen. Illustrated by Ross Collins. Contains extra material for young readers.
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Summary
Now presented in a new translation with illustrations by Ross Collins, Around the World in Eighty Days is part of Alma Junior Classics. It contains extra material for young readers, including a profile of the author, a section on the book, a list of characters, a glossary and a test-yourself quiz.
A brand-new translation of Jules Verne’s classic adventure story which has been adapted numerous times for the stage and the screen. Illustrated by Ross Collins. Contains extra material for young readers.
Description
Having learnt that a new railway in India has made it theoretically possible to travel all the way around the globe in no more than eighty days, Phileas Fogg, a wealthy and fastidious London gentleman, makes a wager of £20,000 with his Reform Club associates that he can achieve this hitherto unheard-of feat, and, accompanied by his French valet Jean Passepartout, boards a train for Dover the very same evening. Pursued on their epic journey by a Scotland Yard policeman who has mistaken Fogg for a bank robber, the intrepid voyagers face a race against time as they traverse a range of exotic and sometimes hazardous landscapes and make use of any and every mode of transport available to them – including elephants – in order to achieve their goal.A huge commercial success on first publication in 1872, Jules Verne’s classic adventure story has been adapted numerous times for the stage and the screen, as well as inspiring many real-life adventurers who have sought to emulate Fogg’s audacious odyssey.
About the Author
Jules Verne (1828–1905) was the author of Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and many other tales of adventure and science fiction, which are still extremely popular today.
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