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Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Exchange

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: colonialism, exoticism, adventure, social interaction

Passepartout, who had been purchasing several dozen mangoes—a fruit as large as good-sized apples, of a dark-brown colour outside and a bright red wit...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Freedom and Compensations

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: liberty, satisfaction, existentialism, privilege, moral dilemmas

After all, as Conseil said, we enjoyed perfect liberty, we were delicately and abundantly fed. We could not complain, and, indeed, the singularity of ...
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The War of the Worlds / Martian Surveillance

Author: H.G. Wells  | Themes: alien presence, tension, control, technology, imperialism

It was a few minutes past nine that night when these three sentinels were joined by four other Martians, each carrying a thick black tube. A similar t...
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Frankenstein / Voyage of Discovery

Author: Mary Shelley  | Themes: exploration, survival, human condition, desperation, morality

I replied, however, that we were on a voyage of discovery towards the northern pole. Upon hearing this he appeared satisfied and consented to come on ...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Electric Timekeeping

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: technology, alienation, modernization, existentialism, isolation

Now look at this clock; it is electrical, and goes with a regularity that defies the best chronometers. I have divided it into twenty-four hours, like...
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Dracula / Manipulation and Control

Author: Bram Stoker  | Themes: fear, authority, superstition, rebellion, conformity

They, an’ all grims an’ signs an’ warnin’s, be all invented by parsons an’ illsome beuk-bodies an’ railway touters to skeer an’ scunner hafflin’s, an’...