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Gulliver's Travels / Exploration and Discovery

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: discovery, duality, burden, exploration, imagination  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-25

In the smaller pocket on the right side, were several round flat pieces of white and red metal, of different bulk; some of the white, which seemed to ...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Secrets of the Deep

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: exploration, isolation, identity, technology, burdens  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-05

The chest was securely fastened, and the Captain wrote an address on the lid, in characters which must have belonged to Modern Greece. This done, Capt...
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Dracula / Vulnerability and Anxiety

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: psychological burden, care, isolation, anxiety, vulnerability  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-16

She seems not too well herself, and doubtless she fears to worry me. I tried to keep awake, and succeeded for a while; but when the clock struck twelv...