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...
"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real." Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days This beautiful unabridged edition contains 55 illustrations from the 1873 English first edition. Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer...
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...
"Phileas Fogg and his French valet, Passepartout, attempt to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days to satisfy a bet. One of Jules Verne's most acclaimed works, translated by Geo. M. Towle, originally published in 1873"--
Around the World in 80 Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a 20,000 wager (equal to...
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,...
Verne's classic novel of global voyaging 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...
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...
Jules Verne's most famous adventure, now in a beautiful clothbound edition 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...
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...
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...
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's...
Phileas Fogg is a rich British 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 his...
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...
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...
'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...
Jules Verne Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today Around the World in Eighty Days remains Jules Verne's most successful novel. A daring wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days...