Around the World in Eighty Days

Translated with an Introduction and Notes by William Butcher.

With the words 'Here I am, gentlemen', Phileas Fogg snatches a day from the jaws of time to make one of literature's great entrances.

Fogg-stiff, repressed, English-assures the members of the exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in eighty days. Together with an irrepressible Frenchman and an Indian beauty he slices through jungles and climbs over snowbound passes, even across an entire isthmus-only to get back five minutes late. He confronts despair and suicide, but his Indian companion makes a new man of him, able to face even his club again.

William Butcher's stylish new translation of Around the World in Eighty Days moves as fast and as brilliantly as Fogg's epic journey. This edition also presents important discoveries about Verne's manuscripts, his sources, and cultural references.