On the second of October, 1872, a precise English gentleman named Phileas Fogg makes a bet of twenty thousand pounds at his London club: he will travel around the world in exactly eighty days and be back in this same chair on the twenty-first of December. Half an hour later he is on a train to Dover with his new French valet Passepartout and a single carpet bag.
Jules Verne published Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours in 1872. It is the most popular novel he wrote — a comedy of railways, steamships, suspicions, and an English detective named Fix who is convinced Fogg is a bank robber and follows him round the planet trying to arrest him. The route runs Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, Liverpool. Verne researched every train timetable.
Verne wrote in clear, precise nineteenth-century French — short paragraphs, lots of dialogue, and the dry comic timing of a man who finds his own characters slightly absurd. Storica's A2 adaptation keeps the route intact and brings the journey to A2 across twenty-five chapters.
Verne is the friendliest of the great nineteenth-century French novelists — short paragraphs, lots of dialogue, and a plot that moves a city per chapter. A2 readers (simple past, future, basic dialogue) can keep up with Fogg's eighty-day schedule comfortably. Each chapter is one leg of the journey, which means natural vocabulary cycling: train, port, ship, station, ticket.
Elementary. You handle simple past tense, basic dialogue, and short connected paragraphs. Vocabulary is around 1,500 words. You can describe what you read.
Yes — every book in the Storica catalog is available in all seven supported languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. Around the World in 80 Days was originally written in French, but you choose your reading language when you start.
A2. Elementary. You handle simple past tense, basic dialogue, and short connected paragraphs. Vocabulary is around 1,500 words. You can describe what you read.
About one month at fifteen minutes a day. The adaptation runs to 25 short chapters — short enough to read before bed, long enough to actually move your level.
No. Storica's adaptation is the version you read. We keep the characters, plot beats, and tone of the original — and rewrite the language to fit the level. If you've read the original before, you'll recognise the story; if you haven't, the adaptation is a complete reading of the book.
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