Read Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours in Frenchwith every sentence explained

Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours by Jules Verne was first published in 1872. In Passage you read the full text in the original French, marked intermediate and filed under children and young adult.

One wager, twenty thousand pounds, and just eighty days to circle the globe.

London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives by the clock: the same club, the same whist table, the same walk home, every single day. Then, over a game of cards at the Reform Club, he bets his friends twenty thousand pounds that he can travel around the world in eighty days, and he leaves that very evening.

With him goes Passepartout, his brand-new French valet, who took the job because he longed for a quiet life. Ahead lie steamers and trains, an elephant and a sail-powered sledge, storms and missed connections. On their heels is Inspector Fix, a detective convinced that Fogg is the thief who has just robbed the Bank of England. Every delay costs hours Fogg can never get back.

First published in 1872, Jules Verne's race against time is one of his best-loved stories, adapted again and again for stage and screen.

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