Round the World in Eighty Days (Penguin Readers, Level 5)

The year is 1872 and Mr Phileas Fogg is leading his usual quiet life. He has kept to the same exact routine for many years. However, in a discussion he says that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days and to prove it, he sets off himself. At first, all goes well but then all sorts of problems start and what about the detective Fix who seems determined to stop Fogg?