Great Stories in Easy English
The captain admits that in future a ship of this size will only need five officers to man it, and Noel, the Indian radio operator, knows he will be one of the first to go. Plans are to do away with radio operators entirely within the ...
Englishman Phileas Fogg races around the world on a daring wager in the seemingly impossible time of eighty days.
The sweep and charm of this adventure classic are undimmed today.” With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Around the World in Eighty Days is both modern and readable.
Adapted from the classic book by Jules Verne, this adventure fiction book retells the classic story, Around the World in Eighty Days.
The novel highlights all the great travel inventions of the era and relates how the wealthy, solitary man undertook the journey with his man-servant and the adventures he encountered on the way.
Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize–winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our ...
The world's best-loved children's stories set in large type for easy reading.
With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of a notorious bank robber.
In this all-time favorite, Phileas Fogg and his manservant set out to win a wager by travelling around the world in 80 days.
In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager £2,242,900 in 2019 set by his friends at the Reform Club.