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Gulliver's Travels / Despair and Ingenuity

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: isolation, survival, desperation, hope, communication  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-09

I then fastened my handkerchief to a stick I usually carried, and thrusting it up the hole, waved it several times in the air, that if any boat or shi...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Detectives Dilemma

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: obsession, pursuit, morality, desperation, wealth  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-30

Fix saw them leave the carriage and push off in a boat for the steamer, and stamped his feet with disappointment. I’ll follow him to the end of the wo...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Desperate Choices

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: oppression, agency, colonialism, ritual, desperation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-27

They then discussed the means of getting at the victim. The guide was familiar with the pagoda of Pillaji, in which, as he declared, the young woman w...
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Gulliver's Travels / Societal Degradation

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: desperation, escapism, moral decay, survival, societal critique  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-26

Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping...