Theme: change
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Maritime Salvage
However, on the 26th, appeased by some presents, and understanding that they had no reprisals to fear, they led M. There, in three or four fathoms of ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Power Shift
The celebrated East India Company was all-powerful from 1756, when the English first gained a foothold on the spot where now stands the city of Madras...
Dracula / Urban Reflections
He seemed not to notice, but remarked that the smuts in London were not quite so bad as they used to be when he was a student here. I am to get his re...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Culinary Exploration
The breakfast consisted of a certain number of dishes, the contents of which were furnished by the sea alone; and I was ignorant of the nature and mod...
Wuthering Heights / Moorland Reflections
One time I passed the old gate, going out of my way, on a journey to Gimmerton. It was about the period that my narrative has reached: a bright frosty...
The War of the Worlds / Tension in the Ordinary
We were far beyond the range of the Heat-Ray there, and had it not been for the silent desertion of some of the houses, the stirring movement of packi...
Dracula / Emotional Contrasts
My dear, I must stop here at present, I feel so miserable, though I am so happy. “_Evening._ “Arthur has just gone, and I feel in better spirits than ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Mystery Unfolds
“What on earth can be the matter with him?” I asked. “He is looking up at the numbers of the houses.” “I believe that he is coming here,” said Holmes,...
Gulliver's Travels / Geometry of Hospitality
When it was found I could neither understand nor be understood, I was conducted by his order to an apartment in his palace (this prince being distingu...
Gulliver's Travels / Power and Perception
However, since the king was pleased to allow me access to his royal person, I was resolved, upon the very first occasion, to deliver my opinion to him...
Gulliver's Travels / Tradition vs Innovation
By all which, instead of being discouraged, they are fifty times more violently bent upon prosecuting their schemes, driven equally on by hope and des...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Ecosystems Reimagined
The soil was still of the same volcanic nature; everywhere were traces of lava, scoriae, and basalt; but the crater which had vomited them I could not...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Cultural Negotiation
His engagement with my uncle was by no means to cease with our arrival at Stapi; he was further to remain in his service during the whole time require...
Gulliver's Travels / Surrender and Awe
The astonishment here was much greater than at the sight of my scimitar. Hundreds fell down as if they had been struck dead; and even the emperor, alt...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Psychological Turmoil
That was a week ago, and from that time I have not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor seen the man in the road.” “Pray conti...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Straits of Malacca
approached the Straits of Malacca, which gave access to the China seas.
The War of the Worlds / Disruption and Isolation
I could just see the curate’s face, a dim, oval shape, and his collar and cuffs. Outside there began a metallic hammering, then a violent hooting, and...
Gulliver's Travels / Cultural Curiosities
I thought this account of the _struldbrugs_ might be some entertainment to the reader, because it seems to be a little out of the common way; at least...
Gulliver's Travels / Noble Education Inquiry
When I had put an end to these long discourses, his majesty, in a sixth audience, consulting his notes, proposed many doubts, queries, and objections,...
Dracula / Arrival of Change
He will now come on to Bukovina, and return to-morrow or the next day; better the next day.” Whilst he was speaking the horses began to neigh and snor...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Encounters
But he shrank from telling the story of his adventures, intimately connected as it was with that of his master; and, before doing so, he determined to...