Subject for November, 2016
Chapter 8 – Cunegund’s Story
Subject: Candide
I was in bed, and fast asleep, when it pleased Heaven to send the Bulgarians to our delightful castle of Thunder-ten-tronckh, where they murdered my father and brother, and cut...
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Chapter 7 – How the Old Woman Took Care Of Candide, and How He Found the Object of His Love
Subject: Candide
Candide followed the old woman, though without taking courage, to a decayed house, where she gave him a pot of pomatum to anoint his sores, showed him a very neat bed, with a s...
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Chapter 6 – How the Portuguese Made a Superb Auto-De-Fe to Prevent Any Future Earthquakes, and How Candide Underwent Public Flagellation
Subject: Candide
After the earthquake, which had destroyed three-fourths of the city of Lisbon, the sages of that country could think of no means more effectual to preserve the kingdom from utt...
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Chapter 5 – A Tempest, a Shipwreck, an Earthquake, and What Else Befell Dr. Pangloss, Candide, and James, the Anabaptist
Subject: Candide
One half of the passengers, weakened and half-dead with the inconceivable anxiety and sickness which the rolling of a vessel at sea occasions through the whole human frame, wer...
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Chapter 4 – How Candide Found His Old Master Pangloss Again and What Happened to Him
Subject: Candide
The next day, as Candide was walking out, he met a beggar all covered with scabs, his eyes sunk in his head, the end of his nose eaten off, his mouth drawn on one side, his tee...
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Chapter 3 – How Candide Escaped from the Bulgarians and What Befell Him Afterward
Subject: Candide
Never was anything so gallant, so well accoutred, so brilliant, and so finely disposed as the two armies. The trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, and cannon made such harmony as ...
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Chapter 2 – What Befell Candide among the Bulgarians
Subject: Candide
Candide, thus driven out of this terrestrial paradise, rambled a long time without knowing where he went; sometimes he raised his eyes, all bedewed with tears, towards heaven, ...
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Chapter 1 – How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
Subject: Candide
In the country of Westphalia, in the castle of the most noble Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh, lived a youth whom Nature had endowed with a most sweet disposition. His face was th...
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Chapter 37
Subject: Around the World in Eighty Days
In which it is shown that Phileas Fogg gained nothing by his tour around the world, unless it were happiness Yes; Phileas Fogg in person. The reader will remember that at fiv...
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Chapter 36
Subject: Around the World in Eighty Days
In which Phileas Fogg’s name is once more at a premium on ‘change It is time to relate what a change took place in English public opinion when it transpired that t...
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