Around the World in Eighty Days & Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Puffin Classics) - Softcover

Verne, Jules

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140364374 ISBN 13: 9780140364378

Publisher: Puffin Classics, 1992

Synopsis

In "Around the World in Eighty Days", Phineas Fogg and Passepartout set off on a balloon trip from London to Paris, Bombay to Singapore and Hong Kong to New York. In "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", an underwater mission to hunt a monster is undertaken, from Atlantis to the South Pole.

About this title

Review:

'Irresistible for children learning to read' - Child Education Plus; 'The Usborne Young Reading Program has a lovely selection of classic tales adapted for younger readers. Graded in seven levels, these have just enough stretch in them and yet are not too overwhelming' - The Irish Sunday Independent; 'Crack reading and make confident and enthusiastic readers with this fantastic reading programme. Seven steps take beginners from simply written folk stories told in 150 words through to lovers of classic and original stories and histories, biographies and classics told in 5,000 words. Colour-coded for ease of use, and presented in a beautiful hardback, every story is well-written and attractively illustrated in full colour by leading artists' - Julia Eccleshare --Julia Eccleshare

About the Author:

Jules Verne was born in France in 1828 and died in 1905. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel was wildly successful, producing many brilliant novels in the burgeoning genre of science fiction: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Around the World in 80 Days, among others. Verne is the second most translated author in the world, after Agatha Christie and before Shakespeare.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Classics
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140364374
• ISBN 13: 9780140364378
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544