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The War of the Worlds / Suspenseful Journey
The steamboat throbbed on its way through an interminable suspense. The sun sank into grey clouds, the sky flushed and darkened, the evening star trem...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Nature versus Technology
Besides, to work was to quit the _Nautilus_, and breathe directly the pure air drawn from the reservoirs, and supplied by our apparatus, and to quit t...
Gulliver's Travels / Cultural Transition
By his assistance, I was able to hold a conversation with those who came to visit me; but this consisted only of their questions, and my answers. The ...
Pride and Prejudice / Pride and Duty
Family pride, and _filial_ pride, for he is very proud of what his father was, have done this. Not to appear to disgrace his family, to degenerate fro...
Gulliver's Travels / Cultural Encounters
But I thought it more consistent with prudence and justice to pass the remainder of my days with my wife and family. A particular description of the S...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Fading Aspirations
But five days after the article in the bulletin of the Geographical Society appeared, the demand began to subside: “Phileas Fogg” declined. They were ...