Around the World in 80 Days
Around the World in 80 Days (Classics Retold)
- Language : English
- Publisher : B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd.; 1st edition (11 May 2021)
- Hardcover : 192 pages
- Reading age : 10 - 12 years
- ISBN-13 : 978-8131944530
- Country of Origin : India
Challenged into a wager, Mr. Phileas Fogg takes the bait: he has to go around the world in 80 days! Mr. Fogg, with his French valet, Jean Passpartout, in tow, sets out on a crazy adventure that takes him from the refined clubhouses of London to exotic lands of Egypt, India and Hong Kong.
But with Scotland Yard’s Detective Fix in hot pursuit - thanks to a mistaken identity - will Mr. Fogg and Passpartout be back in London on time?
Find out in Jules Verne’s adventurous masterpiece Around the World in 80 Days.
About Writer Jules Verne
"Jules Verne's around the world in 80 days (1873) is the story of Phileas Fogg, an affluent English gentleman who leads a solitary Y life. Though Fogg doesn't boast of a vibrant social life, he is a member of the reform club. After reading an article in the daily Telegraph about the opening of a new Railway section in India, which promises to make travel around the world possible in 80 days, he accepts a wager for 20, 000 from fellow club members, which will be given to him only if he makes it around the world in 80 days. With his newly employed French manservant Passe-partout, he leaves London by train on 2 October 1872. From rescuing a raja's young wife from Sati in the exotic land of India, boarding a train from San Francisco to new York which is attacked by a livid Sioux tribe, to finding a Steamboat destined for Bordeaux, France, the heroic traveller "adventures continue to mesmerise readers even today."
