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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Submarine Engineering

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: exploration, technology, nature, human ingenuity, ocean

Its area measures 6032 feet; and its contents about 1500 cubic yards—that is to say, when completely immersed it displaces 50,000 feet of water, or we...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Artistic Confrontation

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: trauma, creation, myth, perception, transformation

I overcame the horror that inspired me, and, taking a pencil, began to draw it. “Perhaps this is the same which the Alector saw,” said Conseil.
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Frankenstein / Nature and Isolation

Author: Mary Shelley  | Themes: suffering, nature, existentialism, solitude, despair

stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Power Shift

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: imperialism, exploitation, resistance, change, identity

The celebrated East India Company was all-powerful from 1756, when the English first gained a foothold on the spot where now stands the city of Madras...
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Dracula / Sacrifice and Loyalty

Author: Bram Stoker  | Themes: love, duty, sacrifice, morality, loss

No word shall be lost; and in the good time I shall give them back to you. It’s a hard thing I ask, but you will do it, will you not, for Lucy’s sake?...
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Gulliver's Travels / Nature and Innocence

Author: Jonathan Swift  | Themes: trust, coexistence, innocence, nature, human connection

I cannot tell whether I were more pleased or mortified to observe, in those solitary walks, that the smaller birds did not appear to be at all afraid ...