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In Eighty Days
Jules Verne
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Around the World

in Eighty Days
Jules Verne

T ext a d a p ta tio n by Bill B ow ler

Illu s tra te d by M a rk D raisey

Jules Verne (1828-1905) was born in Nantes, France, and he

started to write for the theatre when he was a student in
Paris. His first novel was Five Weeks in a Balloon (1862), and
he went on to write more than sixty other science fiction
and adventure books. He became one of the most famous
writers of his time.

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U N IV E R S IT Y PRESS
 Mr Phileas Fogg is an English He hasn’t got a wife or children,
gentlem an. He lives in London. but he has got a French servant
- Passepartout.

Fogg goes to his club every

day.

He eats at his club at 12 o'clock. In the

afternoon he reads there. In the evening
he eats there again. Then he talks with
his friends, and at midnight he goes
home.

gentleman a man from a rich family servant a person who works for club a place where gentlemen moot
who does not need to work someone rich

Passepartout /'piespa:,tu:/