Featuring the world-famous characters Phileas Fogg and Passepartout, Around the World in Eighty Days is the exciting, fun story of Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman, who makes a fantastic trip as a bet. His adventures, with his French manservant Passepartout, by railway, steamship and elephant, see him travel around the world pursued relentlessly by a detective who mistakes him for a notorious criminal. This edition is retold by John Kennett, and contains the key elements of the story using the author's language. Whether you are a student, or an English language learner, or just looking for something great to read in English, the Word Power English Readers are a series of novels with retold text that captures the best and key elements of the novels they are based on. They come with a free audio CD, character notes, a biography of the author, details about the time in which the book was written, and a glossary of the less familiar words in each book. The level of the Readers is B2 and they are suitable for age 10+ because of the content of the novels.
Around the World in 80 Days : Abridged and Retold, with Notes and Free Audiobook
Description
Table of Contents
Contents; Introduction; Summary of plot; Characters; List of characters; explanation of the time the novel was written in; the novel; Glossary.
Author Description
Jules Verne was born in France in 1828, and became a lawyer. He wrote amazing adventure stories at the rate of one a year. This book was adapted by John Kennett.