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Around the World in Eighty Days / Indifference and Journey

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: detachment, historical significance, modernity, nature, inner conflict

It might be thought that, in his anxiety, he would be constantly watching the changes of the wind, the disorderly raging of the billows—every chance, ...
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The War of the Worlds / Martian Resilience

Author: H.G. Wells  | Themes: resilience, colonization, alien perspectives, power dynamics, survival

The Martian who had been overthrown crawled tediously out of his hood, a small brown figure, oddly suggestive from that distance of a speck of blight,...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Duality

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: vulnerability, tranquility, existential struggle

Some overhanging rocks afforded us a slight protection from the torrents. Under this shelter, Hans prepared some food, which, however, I was unable to...
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The War of the Worlds / Desolation and Resilience

Author: H.G. Wells  | Themes: isolation, survival, nature, contrast, rebirth

Far away I saw a gaunt cat slink crouchingly along a wall, but traces of men there were none. The day seemed, by contrast with my recent confinement, ...
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Dracula / Decay and Allure

Author: Bram Stoker  | Themes: isolation, predation, decay, duality, sensory experience

None of the others had met the Count at all at close quarters, and when I had seen him he was either in the fasting stage of his existence in his room...
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Dracula / Revealed Tensions

Author: Bram Stoker  | Themes: fear, secrecy, public scrutiny, relationships

When we were parting he said:-- “Perhaps you will come to town if I send to you, and take Madam Mina too.” “We shall both come when you will,” I said....