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Around the World in Eighty Days / Struggle Against Fate

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: time, exploration, ambition, misfortune  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-21

The “China,” for Liverpool, had started three-quarters of an hour before! IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG ENGAGES IN A DIRECT STRUGGLE WITH BAD FORTUNE The “Chi...
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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...
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Pride and Prejudice / Wickhams Motivations

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: deception, social class, revenge, integrity, fortune  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-30

Wickham’s chief object was unquestionably my sister’s fortune, which is thirty thousand pounds; but I cannot help supposing that the hope of revenging...