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Around the World in Eighty Days / Traveling with Purpose

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-18 09:59

Themes: expedition, modernity, introspection, efficiency, experience

Fogg and his party reached the station, and they only had time to get into the cars. They had seen nothing of Omaha; but Passepartout confessed to him...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Reflections on Prehistory

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-18 05:23

Themes: imagination, evolution, nature, spirituality, contemplation

All day my thoughts were bent upon these speculations, and my imagination scarcely regained a degree of calmness and power of reflection until after a...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Desolation and Pity

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-18 05:23

Themes: isolation, human struggle, empathy, environmental degradation

The country we had reached was already nearly a desert. Here and there could be seen an isolated farm, some solitary bur, or Icelandic house, built of...
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Gulliver's Travels / Diplomatic Rescue

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-18 05:23

Themes: diplomacy, chaos, heroism, sacrifice, political intrigue

Ambassadors arrive from the emperor of Blefuscu, and sue for peace. The empress’s apartment on fire by an accident; the author instrumental in saving ...
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Gulliver's Travels / Identity and Contempt

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-17 20:06

Themes: identity, societal labels, vulnerability, secrecy, self-preservation

I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so often the appellation of _Yahoo_, an odious animal, for which I had so utter a hatred and contempt: I be...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Enchantment

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-17 16:12

Themes: romanticism, nature's beauty, transformation, imagination, the sublime

But that which served as steps under our feet became in other places stalactites. The lava, very porous in certain places, took the form of little rou...
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The War of the Worlds / Technological Innovation

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-17 16:11

Themes: industrialization, progress, creation, anxiety, wonder

These last had brought with them certain fresh appliances that stood in an orderly manner about the cylinder. The second handling-machine was now comp...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Existential Struggle

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-17 16:11

Themes: entrapment, identity, crisis, agency, alienation

My clothes encumbered me; they seemed glued to my body, and paralysed my movements. My mouth filled with water; I struggled against being drawn down t...
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The War of the Worlds / Hope Amid Destruction

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-17 06:22

Themes: hope, despair, divine judgment, destruction, existential struggle

Plentiful hope—for all this destruction!” I began to explain my view of our position. He listened at first, but as I went on the interest dawning in h...
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Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-17 06:21

Themes: class distinction, social obligation, personal relationships

I have scarcely any hesitation in saying that she will include you and my sister Maria in every invitation with which she honours us during your stay ...