'Today is Wednesday 2nd October. If I am back in this very room in the
Reform Club on Saturday 21st December by eight forty-five in the
evening, I win.' Phileas Fogg bets a small fortune that he can go round
the world in eighty days - a huge sum of money in 1872, worth more than
a million pounds today. When he sets off on his amazing journey with his
clever servant, Passepartout, they cannot afford the slightest delay.
Will the two travelers have time to help Princess Aouda, when the brave
and beautiful young woman is threatened with a cruel fate? Detective Fix
believes that Mr Fogg is a bank robber, and plans to arrest him. Will
that be the end of Phileas Fogg's chance to save his fortune?
Real Reads are accessible texts designed to support the literacy
development of primary and lower secondary age children while
introducing them to the riches of our international literary heritage.
Each book is a retelling of a work of great literature from one of the
world's greatest cultures, fitted into a 64-page book, making classic
stories, dramas and histories available to intelligent young readers as
a bridge to the full texts, to language students wanting access to other
cultures, and to adult readers who are unlikely ever to read the
original versions.