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Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne

Part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series

  • 225 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1872
  • 426 editions
  • Free to read
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1 About this book

Phileas Fogg, a very punctual man had broken into an argument while conversing about the recent bank robbery. To keep his word of proving that he would travel around the world in 80 days and win the bet, he sets on a long trip, where he is joined by a few other people on the way. A wonderful adventure is about to begin!

Good for readers who want: historical fiction, adventure, and a book they can read free online.

  • Historical fiction
  • Adventure
  • Voyages around the world
  • Science fiction
  • Voyages and travels
  • Voyages
  • Detectives
  • Children's stories

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3 About Jules Verne

1828–1905

Jules Gabriel Verne ( VURN; French:; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872).

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