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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Intuition and Survival

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25 20:11

Themes: nature, instinct, survival, indigenous knowledge, resilience

Several times I passed my hand across the rock hoping to find some trace of humidity--of the slightest percolation. It now became evident that the hun...
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Frankenstein / Emotional Resilience

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25 20:10

Themes: grief, support, emotional connection, healing

They elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillised it. In some degree, also, t...
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Pride and Prejudice / Emotional Conflict

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25 20:10

Themes: love, resentment, societal expectations, personal conflict, emotional vulnerability

In spite of her deeply-rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man’s affection, and though her intentions did not vary...
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Dracula / Strength in Vulnerability

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25 07:03

Themes: health, masculinity, supernatural, care, vulnerability

You are weakened already.” As he spoke he took off his coat and rolled up his shirt-sleeve. Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Inner Turmoil

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25 07:03

Themes: passion, uncertainty, sincerity, existentialism, enlightenment

I began in the newly aroused ardor of my soul to speak enthusiastically to the Professor. The whole state in which we existed was a mystery--and it wa...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Fortune Favors the Brave

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25 07:02

Themes: courage, exploration, loyalty, uncertainty, adventure

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE The project was a bold one, full of difficulty, perhaps impracticable. Fogg w...
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Dracula / Secrets and Acknowledgments

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25 07:01

Themes: love, secrecy, vulnerability, communication, identity

I have copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did.” “No one need ever know, shall ever know,” I sai...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Rationality and Fear

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25 07:01

Themes: science, fear, submission, nature, emotion

If, then, the steam remains in its normal or habitual state, if their energy does not increase, and if you add to this, the remark that the wind is no...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Naming the Unknown

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25 07:01

Themes: exploration, identity, agency, family, humor

sea voyage had at length commenced; and once more we were making for distant and unknown regions. Just as we were about to leave the little port where...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Colonial Encounters

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25 07:01

Themes: colonialism, trade, power dynamics, exploration, technology

However, on the 26th, appeased by some presents, and understanding that they had no reprisals to fear, they led M. There, in three or four fathoms of ...