Penguin Select Classics: Around The World In Eighty Days

Phileas Fogg's wager sends him and his servant Passepartout racing across continents on a schedule that leaves almost no margin for error. Verne builds the novel on timetables, connections and improvisation, moving through ships, trains and unplanned detours while keeping the clock in view at all times. The Penguin Select Classics edition presents the English text in a clean paperback, which makes one of the founding adventure novels easy to pick up. What the story turns on: • A journey structured around deadlines, transport and constant delay • Nineteenth-century settings spread across several continents • Short chapters that keep the pace brisk for younger readers • Penguin Select Classics presentation of the English text Well suited to teenage readers, adventure fans and classroom libraries, available in the Penguin Select Classics edition at Boipoka.