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Gulliver's Travels / Geometry of Hospitality

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-16 07:30

Themes: cultural exchange, alienation, identity, opulence, communication

When it was found I could neither understand nor be understood, I was conducted by his order to an apartment in his palace (this prince being distingu...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Climactic Stakes

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-16 07:30

Themes: competition, economy, determination, risk, fortune

Phileas Fogg, like a racehorse, was drawing near his last turning-point. The bonds were quoted, no longer at a hundred below par, but at twenty, at te...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Defiance in Darkness

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-16 07:30

Themes: existential struggle, isolation, nature's peril, resilience, hope

“I would drown first.” Just then the moon appeared through the fringes of a thick cloud that the wind was driving to the east. She was five miles from...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Commerce and Conflict

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-16 07:29

Themes: adventure, imperialism, pragmatism, exploration, human ambition

He demanded damages for the “breakage” of the pyramid; and Phileas Fogg appeased him by giving him a handful of banknotes. Fogg and Aouda, followed by...
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The War of the Worlds / Competition and Isolation

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-16 07:28

Themes: rivalry, technology, alienation, modernity, tension

He made a wide curve to avoid me, as though he feared I might prove a fresh competitor. As the yelping died away down the silent road, the wailing sou...
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The War of the Worlds / Desolation and Renewal

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-16 07:28

Themes: war, loss, nature, renewal, historical echoes

And all being quiet throughout the afternoon, we started about five o’clock, as I should judge, along the blackened road to Sunbury. In Sunbury, and a...
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Dracula / Sailors and Superstition

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-16 07:27

Themes: superstition, navigation, commerce, fate, cultural beliefs

We ran by Gibraltar wi’oot bein’ able to signal; an’ till we came to the Dardanelles and had to wait to get our permit to pass, we never were within h...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Journey to the Core

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-16 07:27

Themes: exploration, mystery, nature, knowledge, adventure

He is careful therefore to point the exact one which is the highway into the Interior of the Earth. He lets us know, for this purpose, that about the ...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Secrets and Isolation

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-16 07:27

Themes: identity, secrecy, vulnerability, existentialism, human connection

I keep you, when I could, by a word, plunge you into the depths of the ocean. You came to surprise a secret which no man in the world must penetrate,—...
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Frankenstein / Innocence and Malevolence

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-16 07:27

Themes: innocence, struggle, duality, nature, darkness

Nothing in human shape could have destroyed the fair child. The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact. I thought of pursuing...