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Excerpt: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

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Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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Excerpt: The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.

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Excerpt: The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells.

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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual pre...

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