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Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours

by Jules Verne

Illustrated by Léon Benett · Illustrated by Alphonse Marie de Neuville

"Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" by Jules Verne is an adventure novel first published in 1872. Phileas Fogg, a wealthy English gentleman, accepts a wager of £20,000 to circumnavigate the world in exactly eighty days. Accompanied by his French valet Passepartout, Fogg races across continents by train, steamship, and elephant. But a detective pursuing them believes Fogg is a bank robber, threatening their mission at every turn.

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