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Around the World in Eighty Days (Collins Classics) by Jules Verne
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (£2,075,400 in 2017) set by his friend ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Roger Cardinal (Intro and Notes by)
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Library
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury. Translations are by Paul Desages (Around the World in Eighty Days) and Arthur Chambers (Five Weeks in a Balloon). JULES VERNE (1828-1905) POSSESSED that rare storyteller's gift of being able to present the fa ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Jules Verne; Judith John (Contribution by)
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
A beautiful Gift edition for the collector, and perfect for a first reader of this Jules Verne classic. Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, lu ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jules Verne
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneOne ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-establised routine of his daily life, the reserved ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days: Popular Penguins by Jules Verne
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"To go around the world...in such a short time and with the means of transport currently available, was not only impossible, it was madness" One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days (Puffin Classics) by Jules Verne
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics
In Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the world in just eighty days and the very next day sets out from the port of Dover with his servant Passeportout to achieve his aim. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous places, they seiz ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty days (HB) by Jules Verne
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Award Essential Classics Ser.
When his friends insist that it can't be done, Phileas Fogg strikes a wager that he will travel around the world and back again in just 80 days, staking a fortune on his success. But even with the help of the irrepressible Passepartout, the outcome of his race against time is ever far from certain... ...Show more
Canterbury Classics Box Set by Arthur Conan Doyle; H. G. Wells; Edgar Allen Poe; Jane Austen; Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; Lewis Carroll; Jacob Grimm; Jules Verne
Category: Classics
Seven volumes of adventure, fairy tales, mysteries, and more The haunting stories of Edgar Allan Poe, classic fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, and futuristic adventures by H. G. Wells and Jules Verne are all included in these seven deluxe volumes of the most popular classic literature money can buy. A ...Show more
Classic Tales of Science Fiction & Fantasy (Leatherbound Classics) by Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jack London, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Classics | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
Blast off into the unknown with this collection of ten classical works of science fiction and fantasy. Long before we ventured into outer space or explored the most remote regions of the planet, writers have spun stories of what might lie in those unknown worlds, or what awaits humanity in the futur ...Show more
Dick Sands the Boy Captain by Jules Verne
Category: Classics
Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen is a Jules Verne novel published in 1878. It deals primarily with the issue of slavery, and the African slave trade by other Africans in particular. Several adaptations were made, two Soviet and one Franco-Spanish.
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
Category: Classics
Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne's prophetic novel of man's race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at ...Show more
From the Earth to the Moon & Around the Moon by Jules Verne
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on 'extraordinary voyages.' His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote past for their dreams of adventure. The popularity of his novels led dire ...Show more