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Originally Posted by TallMomof2

Thanks! I'm actually homeschooling my 12yo daughter using a classical curriculum. Around the World in Eighty Days is the first novel in this curriculum

Are you using it to teach her French, or were you reading an English translation?

I'd always be wary of regarding a translation as a "classic" myself. How much of the original author are you reading, and how much of the translator? Many of Verne's novels were virtually re-written in English translation, and bear only the most superficial resemblance to the French originals.