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Frankenstein / Freedom and Accountability

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-28 08:22

Themes: individuality, societal norms, morality, tension, identity

Kirwin’s to give an account of yourself.” “Who is Mr. Is not this a free country?” “Ay, sir, free enough for honest folks.
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Exploration and Risk

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-28 08:22

Themes: exploration, ambition, survival, knowledge, the unknown

We are about to pay a visit to the very bottom of the crater. Others have done it and did not perish from that course. "That, however, is not the whol...
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Pride and Prejudice / Survival Anxiety

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-28 08:22

Themes: social status, gender roles, inheritance, family duty, emotional despair

Let us flatter ourselves that _I_ may be the survivor.” This was not very consoling to Mrs. Bennet; and, therefore, instead of making any answer, she ...
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The War of the Worlds / Survival and Conflict

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-28 08:21

Themes: desperation, survival instincts, moral dilemmas, interpersonal conflict, crisis response

And I would sit in the darkness unable to keep my mind off him by reason of his importunities. He ate more than I did, and it was in vain I pointed ou...
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Frankenstein / Inner Turmoil

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-28 08:20

Themes: chaos, order, self-awareness, struggle, existentialism

My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it.
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Unprepared Voyage

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-28 08:20

Themes: human ambition, fragility, nature's power, existential dread, folly

We are utterly unprepared for a sea voyage; it is simply madness to think of performing a journey of five hundred leagues upon a wretched pile of beam...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Dusk at Baker Street

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-27 05:21

Themes: time, anticipation, mystery, urban life, light and dark

It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in Serpentine Avenue. It was ...
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Gulliver's Travels / Sustenance and Satire

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-27 05:21

Themes: civilization vs savagery, human nature, nourishment, degradation

She gave me a large bowlful, of which I drank very heartily, and found myself well refreshed. About noon, I saw coming towards the house a kind of veh...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Longing and Confinement

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-27 05:21

Themes: nostalgia, freedom, identity, exile, memory

His past life is always present to him; everything that we are forbidden he regrets. Nothing; he is not learned like you, sir; and has not the same ta...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Knowledge and Perception

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-26 12:14

Themes: science vs emotion, knowledge disparity, struggle for understanding

Anxious as I was, I was for a long time doomed to disappointment. Hans coolly drew it in, and with it a fish, which struggled violently to escape. "It...