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Gulliver's Travels / Resource Mobilization

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-29 07:46

Themes: survival, colonization, agriculture, resource management, migration

I stored the boat with the carcases of a hundred oxen, and three hundred sheep, with bread and drink proportionable, and as much meat ready dressed as...
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Pride and Prejudice / Idle Pursuits

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-29 07:45

Themes: gender roles, societal expectations, romance, military influence, leisure

She has been allowed to dispose of her time in the most idle and frivolous manner, and to adopt any opinions that came in her way. Since the ----shire...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Travel and Wit

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-29 07:44

Themes: exploration, colonialism, camaraderie, societal roles

That was a good time.” “For the cats, my lord?” “Perhaps for the travellers as well!” After which Mr. Fogg, and his first destination was the headquar...
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Pride and Prejudice / Letter Arrival

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-29 07:43

Themes: communication, romance, social dynamics, character development

back with them” [_Copyright 1894 by George Allen._]] Soon after their return, a letter was delivered to Miss Bennet; it came from Netherfield, and was...
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Dracula / Loyalty and Trust

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-29 07:41

Themes: oaths, friendship, nobility, protection, moral obligation

Then you shall bless me from first to last for your own sake, and for the sake of others and for her dear sake to whom I swore to protect.” “And, inde...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Desperate Choices

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-27 16:05

Themes: oppression, agency, colonialism, ritual, desperation

They then discussed the means of getting at the victim. The guide was familiar with the pagoda of Pillaji, in which, as he declared, the young woman w...
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Gulliver's Travels / Eccentric Ambitions

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-27 16:03

Themes: human folly, enlightenment, nature of knowledge, ambition, absurdity

Every room has in it one or more projectors; and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Embarrassment and Journey

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-27 16:03

Themes: duty, friendship, exploration, imperialism, internal conflict

Fogg choose to make him, Passepartout, a present of Kiouni, he would be very much embarrassed; and these thoughts did not cease worrying him for a lon...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Identity and Society

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-27 06:02

Themes: individuality, conformity, appearance, societal norms, rebellion

“‘Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to you?’ “‘Oh, no.’ “‘Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?’ “I could har...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Encounters

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-27 06:02

Themes: loyalty, identity, colonialism, honor, cultural exchange

But he shrank from telling the story of his adventures, intimately connected as it was with that of his master; and, before doing so, he determined to...