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 and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.

Jules Verne was born in France in 1828 and died in 1905. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel was wildly successful, producing many brilliant novels in the burgeoning genre of science fiction: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Around the World in 80 Days, among others. Verne is the...

Title:Red Classics Around The World In Eighty Days

Format:Mass Market Paperback

Product dimensions:288 pages, 7.1 X 4.42 X 0.95 in

Shipping dimensions:288 pages, 7.1 X 4.42 X 0.95 in

Published:June 10, 2008

Publisher:Penguin Uk

Language:English

Appropriate for ages:All ages

ISBN - 13:9780141035871

Red Classics Around The World In Eighty Days

byJULES VERNE

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