Subject for November, 2016
Chapter 5 – In which a new species of funds, unknown to the moneyed men, appears on ‘change
Subject: Around the World in Eighty Days
Phileas Fogg rightly suspected that his departure from London would create a lively sensation at the West End. The news of the bet spread through the Reform Club, and afforded...
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Chapter 4 – In which Phileas Fogg astounds Passepartout, his servant
Subject: Around the World in Eighty Days
Having won twenty guineas at whist, and taken leave of his friends, Phileas Fogg, at twenty-five minutes past seven, left the Reform Club. Passepartout, who had conscientiousl...
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Chapter 3 – In which a conversation takes place which seems likely to cost Phileas Fogg dear
Subject: Around the World in Eighty Days
Phileas Fogg, having shut the door of his house at half-past eleven, and having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy-five times, and his left foot before...
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Chapter 2 – In which Passepartout is convinced that he has at last found his ideal
Subject: Around the World in Eighty Days
“Faith,” muttered Passepartout, somewhat flurried, “I’ve seen people at Madame Tussaud’s as lively as my new master!” Madame Tussaud’...
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Chapter 1 – In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One as Master, the Other As Man
Subject: Around the World in Eighty Days
Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform C...
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