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The Survivors of the Chancellor

Jules Verne Original title Le Chancellor (French, 1875)

The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers .


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“Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.”

Les poëtes sont comme les proverbes : l’un est toujours là pour contredire l’autre.
Source: The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875), Ch. 5: An Unusual Route

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