Around the World in Eighty Days (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781906230708)

'Today is Wednesday 2nd October. If I am back in this very room in the Reform Club on Saturday 21st December by eight forty-five in the evening, I win.' Phileas Fogg bets a small fortune that he can go round the world in eighty days - a huge sum of money in 1872, worth more than a million pounds today. When he sets off on his amazing journey with his clever servant, Passepartout, they cannot afford the slightest delay. Will the two travelers have time to help Princess Aouda, when the brave and beautiful young woman is threatened with a cruel fate? Detective Fix believes that Mr Fogg is a bank robber, and plans to arrest him. Will that be the end of Phileas Fogg's chance to save his fortune?

Real Reads are accessible texts designed to support the literacy development of primary and lower secondary age children while introducing them to the riches of our international literary heritage. Each book is a retelling of a work of great literature from one of the world's greatest cultures, fitted into a 64-page book, making classic stories, dramas and histories available to intelligent young readers as a bridge to the full texts, to language students wanting access to other cultures, and to adult readers who are unlikely ever to read the original versions.

Author: Jules Verne
ISBN-10: 1906230706
ISBN-13: 9781906230708
Publisher: Real Reads
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2014
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.40d