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Gulliver's Travels / Legal Illusions

Author: Jonathan Swift  | Themes: justice, individual rights, moral ambiguity, institutional power

For example, if my neighbour has a mind to my cow, he has a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must then hire another to defend m...
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Gulliver's Travels / Assembly Dynamics

Author: Jonathan Swift  | Themes: authority, representation, discourse, governance, community

One of these grand assemblies was held in my time, about three months before my departure, whither my master went as the representative of our distric...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Geothermal Conductivity

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: geology, thermodynamics, natural phenomena, environmental understanding

The difference evidently depends on the conductibility of certain rocks. In the neighborhood of an extinct volcano, it has been remarked that the elev...
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Frankenstein / Spirit and Consolation

Author: Mary Shelley  | Themes: loss, memory, connection, grief, legacy

has decayed, but your spirit still visits and consoles your unhappy friend.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Urban Mysteries

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle  | Themes: triviality, urban life, hidden stories, friendship, mystery

I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one”—he jerked his thumb in the direction of the old ...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Savage Civilizations

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: colonialism, identity, music, civilization, conflict

Besides, are they worse than others, these whom you call savages?” “But Captain——” “How many have you counted?” “A hundred at least.” “M. Aronnax,” re...