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Around the World in 80 Days

Jules Verne

Around the World in 80 Days

Original publication
1872
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
469
Difficulty
★☆☆
Genres
Adventure, Travel Writing, Science Fiction
Translated from
French

Book summary

Phileas Fogg, a methodical gentleman, bets that he can travel around the world in eighty days. Accompanied by Passepartout, his resourceful servant, he moves from one mode of transport to another while facing unforeseen events across several continents. But a police inspector pursues him, convinced that he is a criminal on the run. Each stage becomes a race against time. The novel blends adventure, precision, and suspense, offering a tightly paced journey around the globe.

The plot

An English gentleman’s wager. In London, Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman, bets £20,000, half his fortune, that he can travel around the world in 80 days. He leaves that very evening and must be back at his club by…

The world of the book

By train, by ship, by elephant. The story begins in London in 1872. There are no planes yet: to go around the world, you take trains and steamships, and you cannot miss a single departure. So Phileas Fogg crosses…

The author

A novel born of new routes. Born in Nantes, a great port, Jules Verne loved ships all his life. In 1869 and 1870 the Suez Canal opened in Egypt, along with a railway across the United States and a line across India.…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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