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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Urban Mystery

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Themes: search for understanding, urban isolation, victorian life, personal conflict, anticipation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-05

I tried to puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside until night should bring an explanation. It was a quarter-past nine when ...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Railway Expectations

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: progress, anticipation, disillusionment, technology, limitation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-29

This is the 22nd, and we shall reach Calcutta in time.” There was nothing to say to so confident a response. It was but too true that the railway came...