Read Il giro del mondo in ottanta giorni in Italianwith every sentence explained

Il giro del mondo in ottanta giorni by Jules Verne was first published in 1872. In Passage you read the full text in Italian, marked intermediate and filed under children and young adult.

A wager at the Reform Club: twenty thousand pounds says a man can circle the globe in eighty days.

London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives by the clock: the same meals, the same club, the same game of whist, every single day. Then, during an argument over a newspaper article, he bets half his fortune that he can travel around the world in eighty days, and leaves that very evening with his brand-new French servant, Passepartout, who had been hoping for a quiet life.

Steamers, trains and even an elephant carry them from Suez and Bombay to Hong Kong, Yokohama and San Francisco. But a daring robbery has just shaken the Bank of England, and Detective Fix is convinced that the calm gentleman racing around the globe is the thief. Every missed connection costs Fogg time he cannot spare.

Ever since, Verne's brisk, funny race against the calendar has inspired films, cartoons and real-life travellers. This edition is a classic Italian translation of Around the World in Eighty Days.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Italian. 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 Italian 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.