Read De reis om de wereld in tachtig dagen in Dutchwith every sentence explained

De reis om de wereld in tachtig dagen by Jules Verne was first published in 1872. In Passage you read the full text in the Dutch translation by Gerard Keller, marked intermediate and filed under thriller and suspense and young adult. It runs to about 69,100 words.

Twenty thousand pounds. Eighty days. Not a minute to lose.

London, 1872. Phileas Fogg is the most precise gentleman in the Reform Club: he lives by the clock, never hurries and never wastes a word. Yet one evening over a game of cards he makes an astonishing bet — that he can travel all the way around the world in just eighty days. That very night he sets off, with half his fortune in a carpet bag.

At his side is Passepartout, his brand-new French valet, who had hoped for a quiet life. Close behind them is Detective Fix, convinced that Fogg is the thief who has just robbed the Bank of England. By steamer, train, elephant and anything else that moves, the race takes them through Suez, India, Hong Kong, Japan and America.

Jules Verne's most famous adventure has inspired countless films, series and real-life record attempts — and it still makes every page feel like a ticking clock.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Dutch. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked intermediate: comfortable once everyday Dutch feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.