| Around the World in Eighty Days Contributor(s): Verne, Jules (Author) |
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ISBN: 1720998825 ISBN-13: 9781720998822 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Lexile Measure: 1090 |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.60 lbs) 198 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 122181 Reading Level: 3.7 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 1.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: he story starts in London on Tuesday, 1 October 1872. Phileas Fogg is a rich British gentleman living in solitude. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. Very little can be said about his social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed his former valet, James Forster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 F (29 C) instead of 86 F (30 C), Fogg hires Frenchman Jean Passepartout as a replacement. At the Reform Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. He accepts a wager for 20,000 ( 2,075,400 in 2017) 5] from his fellow club members to complete such a journey within this time period. With Passepartout accompanying him, Fogg departs from London by train at 8:45 p.m. on 2 October; if he is to win the wager, then he will have to return to the club by this same time on 21 December, 80 days later. |