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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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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Desolation and Pity

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: isolation, human struggle, empathy, environmental degradation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-18

The country we had reached was already nearly a desert. Here and there could be seen an isolated farm, some solitary bur, or Icelandic house, built of...