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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 his former valet, James Forster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 °F (29 °c) instead of 86 °f (30 °c), Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout as a replacement.At the Reform Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. He accepts a wager for £20,000 (equal to about £1.6 million today) from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days. Accompanied by Passepartout, he leaves London by train at 8:45 pm on Wednesday, October 2, 1872, and is due back at the Reform Club at the same time 80 days later, Saturday, December 21, 1872.This cloth-bound book includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket, and is limited to 100 copies.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS“Jules Verne’s masterpiece...stimulated our childhood and taught us more than all the atlases: the taste of adventure and the love of travel.” (Jean Cocteau)This edition of Jule’s Verne’s classic adventure story includes all the original illustrations.Phileas Fogg of London and his French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days to win a £20,000 wager (worth £1.6 million today).The novel has inspired games, plays, musicals, radio and television adaptations, and several films including the famous 1956 movie starring David Niven.READERS’ REVIEWS:“This is perfect. It's engaging, amusing, exciting and beautifully written. It was an absolute pleasure to read.”“It's so rich in description that you can smell the smoke from the steam train and smell the spices!!! Brilliant story.”“A damned good yarn. It is thrilling from start to finish. An enjoyable read.”“Fantastic read, so glad I took the time to read this story. Truly an epic adventure suitable for all ages.”Michael Palin on his Ten Greatest Travel Books:“I’ve been interested in travel and foreign lands from as early as I can remember, and read an illustrated version of Verne’s classic novel in the Fifties. The heady delight of reading about someone travelling so fast around the world, visiting all these exotic places, struck a chord with me.”Sue Arnold in The Guardian:“Even if you have seen cinema versions of the novel, you will be as enchanted by the elegance and wit of the original story as you were dazzled by the extravagant visual effects of the films...This has to be the golden age of travel if your idea of bliss includes hackney carriages, Pullman trains and steamships, supplemented with the occasional howdah, sedan chair or sail-driven sledge. There are adventures round every corner.”“Jule’s Verne’s novels are matchless...He is an astonishing past master at the art of constructing a story that fascinates and impassions the reader.” (Leo Tolstoy)

Verne’s most outrageous “voyage extraordinaire” - a hasty world tour taken up on a gentlemen’s club wager! Mr. Phileas Fogg, master of precision, enters into the strangest wager ever made over the whist table - that he will circle the globe in 80 days. The news astounds Jean Passepartout, sometime wandering minstrel, bareback rider, funambulist, gymnast and fireman, now turned valet to Mr. Fogg in the expectancy of a quiet and well-regulated life. For the next 80 days, their lives are anything but quiet or well-regulated.Jules Verne preferred to call himself an author of “voyages extraordinaires.” An extraordinary voyage it is, from Fogg’s announcement to Passepartout that they are to “leave for Dover in ten minutes,” to his triumphant return to the Reform Club at the last second!

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.” ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days.Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly $3m today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompanied by his hot-blooded manservant. Traveling by train, steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings, natural disasters, Sioux attacks, and the dogged Inspector Fix of Scotland Yard -- who believes that Fogg has robbed the Bank of England -- to win the extraordinary wager. Around the World in 80 Days gripped audiences on its publication and remains hugely popular, combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time.This new edition of Verne's classic from Enhanced Media includes a Jules Verne image gallery.

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 the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of a notorious bank robber. Verne's adventure novel on time, space, and one man's struggle to reach beyond the bounds of both science and society.

In London, 1872, a man named Phileas Fogg makes a bet with his friends that he can travel across the entire planet in eighty days. The wager? More than half his sizable fortune -- and the exact same amount of money that was stolen from a nearby bank a day earlier. Fogg hastily departs in the company of Passepartout, his personal attendant, on a journey that will take the two men all over the wide world by way of every known means of transportation. Little does Fogg know that a sly detective trails his every globetrotting step . . . These full-color graphic novels feature enhanced Common Core State Standards support, including discussion and writing prompts developed by a Common Core expert, an expanded introduction, and bolded glossary words. They're sure to hook even the most reluctant of readers.

“Around the World in 80 Days” is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne (1828-1905). First published in 1873, it was translated in English by George Makepeace Towle (1841-1893) during the same year.The novel tells the story of Phileas Fogg, a rich English gentleman, and his newly employed French valet Passepartout, that attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days.The ebook contains the original illustrations by Alphonse-Marie de Neuville (1835-1885) and Léon Benett (1839-1916). It also contains a detailed bibliography of the “Extraordinary Travels”, the series of Verne’s novels.

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, bets 20,000 pounds that he can travel around the world in only 80 days. En route he meets a beautiful Indian Princess, gets mistaken for a notorious criminal and is pursued by a detective with a warrant for his arrest. Follow his fantastic adventures through four continents in hi daring race against time. It's a fast-paced, action-packed, high-spirited journey filled with romance, danger and adventure." from back cover