Round the World in Eighty Days

Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French poet playwright and novelist famous for his well-documented novels set in the second half of the nineteenth century including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870). Besides novels he also produced many short stories plays poems literary studies and autobiographical accounts. Verne had a significant impact on surrealism and the literary avant-garde in France and Europe and is considered to be among its most important authors. Part of his Voyages extraordinaires series of best-selling adventure novels Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) is the classic tale of Phileas Fogg and his newly-employed French valet Passepartout who embark on a quest to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days for a £20000 bet. One of Vernes most famous and celebrated work Around the World in Eighty Days has inspired many real-life attempts to follow Foggs trip as well as numerous plays films games and more. Highly recommended for fans of classic adventure fiction. Read & Co. Classics is proud to be republishing this novel now in a brand new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.