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Gulliver's Travels / Sustenance and Satire

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: civilization vs savagery, human nature, nourishment, degradation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-27

She gave me a large bowlful, of which I drank very heartily, and found myself well refreshed. About noon, I saw coming towards the house a kind of veh...
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Frankenstein / Survival and Identity

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: civilization vs savagery, identity, isolation, survival, cultural dislocation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-22

Only one dog remained alive; but there was a human being within it whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel. He was not, as the other trav...