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Gulliver's Travels / Savage Satire

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: power dynamics, brutality, societal critique, human nature, civilization  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-12

This favourite is hated by the whole herd, and therefore, to protect himself, keeps always near the person of his leader. He usually continues in offi...
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The War of the Worlds / Struggle and Despair

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: morality, despair, brutality, human nature, psychological conflict  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-06

As the days wore on, his utter carelessness of any consideration so intensified our distress and danger that I had, much as I loathed doing it, to res...