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Gulliver's Travels / Assembly Dynamics

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: authority, representation, discourse, governance, community  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-11

One of these grand assemblies was held in my time, about three months before my departure, whither my master went as the representative of our distric...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Exploration and Truth

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: exploration, media reliability, native cultures, skepticism, colonial discourse  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-19

long., had seen some iron bars and red stuffs used by the natives of these parts. Dumont d’Urville, much perplexed, and not knowing how to credit the ...
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Dracula / Friendship and Reflection

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: learning, uncertainty, introspection, friendship, philosophical discourse  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

But we live and learn, and in our present task we must take no chance, as my friend Quincey would say. Seward seemed to answer them both in a dreamy k...
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Gulliver's Travels / Critique of Humanity

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: human folly, authorship, public discourse, distortion, enlightenment  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-23

And it must be owned, that seven months were a sufficient time to correct every vice and folly to which _Yahoos_ are subject, if their natures had bee...