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Arthur Conan Doyle · The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes · Project Gutenberg

We have still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?” “Ample.” “Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours....

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Moral Dilemmas

Bram Stoker · Dracula · Project Gutenberg

responsibility sacrifice inaction knowledge

We found both places; six boxes in each and we destroyed them all!” “Destroyed?” asked the Professor. “For him!” We were silent for a minute, and then Quincey said:-- “There’s nothing to do ...

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Cultural Exchange

Jules Verne · Around the World in Eighty Days · Project Gutenberg

colonialism exoticism adventure social interaction

Passepartout, who had been purchasing several dozen mangoes—a fruit as large as good-sized apples, of a dark-brown colour outside and a bright red within, and whose white pulp, melting in th...

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Freedom and Compensations

Jules Verne · Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea · Project Gutenberg

liberty satisfaction existentialism privilege

After all, as Conseil said, we enjoyed perfect liberty, we were delicately and abundantly fed. We could not complain, and, indeed, the singularity of our fate reserved such wonderful compens...

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Technological Vulnerability

H.G. Wells · The War of the Worlds · Project Gutenberg

warfare alien interaction vulnerability technology

It would seem that a leg of the tripod had been smashed by one of the shells. The whole of the second volley flew wide of the Martian on the ground, and, simultaneously, both his companions ...

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Upward Struggles

Jules Verne · A Journey to the Centre of the Earth · Project Gutenberg

exploration denial nature human interaction

For some time I have noticed that we are going upwards." "Upwards," cried my uncle, shrugging his shoulders, "how can that be?" "There can be no doubt about it. For the last half hour the sl...

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Mechanical Innovations

H.G. Wells · The War of the Worlds · Project Gutenberg

technology industrialization human-machine interaction transformation

These last had brought with them certain fresh appliances that stood in an orderly manner about the cylinder. The second handling-machine was now completed, and was busied in serving one of ...

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Hotel Dynamics

Jules Verne · Around the World in Eighty Days · Project Gutenberg

hospitality class colonialism race

The ground floor of the hotel was occupied by a large bar, a sort of restaurant freely open to all passers-by, who might partake of dried beef, oyster soup, biscuits, and cheese, without tak...

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Crime and Justice

Arthur Conan Doyle · The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes · Project Gutenberg

innocence accusation societal reaction morality

Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to the Countess, dep...

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Cultural Breach

Jules Verne · Around the World in Eighty Days · Project Gutenberg

collaboration exploration vulnerability cultural interaction

Happily the temple walls were built of brick and wood, which could be penetrated with little difficulty; after one brick had been taken out, the rest would yield easily. They set noiselessly...

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Movement and Music

Jonathan Swift · Gulliver's Travels · Project Gutenberg

power absurdity satire authority

His majesty had given orders, that the island should move north-east and by east, to the vertical point over Lagado, the metropolis of the whole kingdom below, upon the firm earth. It was ab...

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