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Around the World in Eighty Days / Climactic Stakes

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: competition, economy, determination, risk, fortune  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-16

Phileas Fogg, like a racehorse, was drawing near his last turning-point. The bonds were quoted, no longer at a hundred below par, but at twenty, at te...