Le Dernier des Mohicans

Edmond Dantès is imprisoned on a false charge, escapes, finds a fortune and spends the rest of the book settling accounts. The best revenge story ever written, in the original French.

Alexandre Dumas

Phileas Fogg bets half his fortune that he can circle the globe in eighty days, and sets off with a French valet and a detective on his heels. Short chapters and constant movement.

Jules Verne

Huck fakes his own death and floats down the Mississippi on a raft with Jim, a man escaping slavery. Funnier and darker than the Tom Sawyer book that precedes it.

Mark Twain

D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with a horse nobody wants and manages to pick three duels before lunch. Dumas at his most entertaining, complete and in French.

Alexandre Dumas

Professor Aronnax goes hunting a sea monster and ends up a guest aboard Captain Nemo's Nautilus. This edition carries the original illustrations by Neuville and Riou.

Jules Verne