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Dracula / Urban Reflections

Author: Bram Stoker  | Themes: urban change, personal growth, emotional landscapes

He seemed not to notice, but remarked that the smuts in London were not quite so bad as they used to be when he was a student here. I am to get his re...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Nightmare Awakening

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: fear, dreams, transformation, reality, companionship

I could feel his hot and fetid breath on my neck; and with a horrid jump--awoke from my nightmare sleep. I was still on the raft with my uncle and the...
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Gulliver's Travels / Perspective of Lilliput

Author: Jonathan Swift  | Themes: scale, perception, society, nature, education

Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their learning, laws, and customs; the manner of educating their children. Although I intend to leave the description ...
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Gulliver's Travels / Urgent Departure

Author: Jonathan Swift  | Themes: labor, ingenuity, survival, collaboration, exploration

These considerations moved me to hasten my departure somewhat sooner than I intended; to which the court, impatient to have me gone, very readily cont...
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Dracula / New Beginnings

Author: Bram Stoker  | Themes: transformation, hope, introspection, time, renewal

He has closed the account most accurately, and to-day begun a new record. How many of us begin a new record with each day of our lives? To me it seems...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Land and Sea

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: exploration, existential dread, man vs nature

I fancy that the worthy Professor in some measure shares my notions, if not my fears, for, after an attentive examination of the crowbar, he cast his ...