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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Fate and Explosions

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: human ambition, industrial dangers, time's weight, resignation, scientific progress  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-26

"We are bound to go through," responded the Professor, tapping me on the back. At midnight, our work as miners was completely finished; the charge of ...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Oceanic Terrors

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: exploration, nature's beauty, danger, human experience, the sublime  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-26

There rose high submarine cliffs covered with large weeds. It was about eleven o’clock when Ned Land drew my attention to a formidable pricking, like ...