Around the World in 80 Days (The Classic Collection)

Jules Verne

ISBN 10: 1491586850 ISBN 13: 9781491586853

Publisher: The Classic Collection, 2015

Synopsis

Verne's most outrageous "voyage extraordinaire"—a hasty world tour taken up on a gentleman'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.

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From the Publisher:

This edition is printed in specially-designed large type for easier reading, and is printed on non-glare paper.

From the Inside Flap:

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.
Combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS gripped audiences upon its original publication and remains hugely popular to this day.

"From the Cassette edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Classic Collection
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1491586850
• ISBN 13: 9781491586853
• Binding: MP3 CD