Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
- First published
- 1872
- Language
- English
- VocaScene level
- B1
- Genre
- adventure
- Length
- About 63k words
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This English adventure is listed at B1 in the VocaScene catalog. The level is guidance for choosing reading material, not a formal language assessment. Signed-in readers can select unfamiliar words, see meanings and save vocabulary for later practice.
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Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled Byron—at least that his head was Byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.
He was recommended by the Barings, with whom he had an open credit. His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush.
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