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The War of the Worlds / Military Disruption

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-17 17:32

Themes: displacement, survival, chaos, urgency, conflict

Patrols of soldiers—here no longer hussars, but grenadiers in white—were warning people to move now or to take refuge in their cellars as soon as the ...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Paradox

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-17 05:14

Themes: knowledge vs ignorance, nature's complexity, human curiosity, preservation vs exploitation, science and empire

"Providence appears to have designed the preservation in this vast and mysterious hothouse of antediluvian plants, to prove the sagacity of learned me...
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Gulliver's Travels / Struggle for Freedom

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-17 05:12

Themes: resilience, exploration, survival, ingenuity, adventure

In this necessity I was forced to swim behind, and push the boat forward, as often as I could, with one of my hands; and the tide favouring me, I adva...
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Frankenstein / Journey of Vengeance

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-17 05:11

Themes: resilience, revenge, isolation, suffering, endurance

I have traversed a vast portion of the earth and have endured all the hardships which travellers in deserts and barbarous countries are wont to meet. ...
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Dracula / Vulnerability and Anxiety

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-16 12:13

Themes: psychological burden, care, isolation, anxiety, vulnerability

She seems not too well herself, and doubtless she fears to worry me. I tried to keep awake, and succeeded for a while; but when the clock struck twelv...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Echoes of Despair

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-16 12:10

Themes: isolation, communication, uncertainty, hope, despair

help!” Our movements were suspended for an instant; we listened. It might be only a singing in the ear, but it seemed to me as if a cry answered the c...
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The War of the Worlds / Survival in Darkness

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-16 12:10

Themes: abandonment, desperation, vulnerability, decay, survival

Here we happened on no dead, though the night was too dark for us to see into the side roads of the place. In Sheen my companion suddenly complained o...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Descent into Darkness

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-16 12:07

Themes: vulnerability, nature's power, existential fear, adventure, silence

The descent then commenced in the following order: Hans went first, my uncle followed, and I went last. Our progress was made in profound silence--a s...
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Dracula / Madness and Memory

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-16 12:05

Themes: sanity vs insanity, nostalgia, psychological tension, duality of man

He grew very grave; and, after thinking the matter over for a while asked me to take him to Renfield. As we came to the door we heard the lunatic with...
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The War of the Worlds / Fate of Humanity

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-16 11:58

Themes: dehumanization, technology, existential dread, agency, industrialization

And as the day came they became aware of a fighting-machine standing near by the Langham and looking down at them. He came down the road towards them,...