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The War of the Worlds / Urban Despair

Author: H.G. Wells 🔗 — Source: Project Gutenberg — 2025-11-15 00:00:07 UTC

Themes: isolation, survival, urban chaos, hunger, fear

My brother supposes they must have filled outside London, for at that time the furious terror of the people had rendered the central termini impossible. Near this place they halted for the rest of the afternoon, for the violence of the day had already utterly exhausted all three of them. They began to suffer the beginnings of hunger; the night was cold, and none of them dared to sleep.
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Enthusiasm and Restraint

Author: Jules Verne 🔗 — Source: Project Gutenberg — 2025-11-14 23:53:31 UTC

Themes: ambition, caution, adventure, collaboration, generational conflict

"Forward--forward," I cried in a burst of genuine and hearty enthusiasm. I had already started in the direction of the somber and gloomy gallery when the Professor stopped me; he, the man so rash and hasty, he, the man so easily roused to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, checked me, and asked me to be patient and show more calm. "Let us return to our good friend, Hans," he said; "we will then brin...
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