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Frankenstein / Intellectual Passion

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: knowledge, ambition, enlightenment, discovery, academia  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-03

My application was at first fluctuating and uncertain; it gained strength as I proceeded and soon became so ardent and eager that the stars often disa...
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Gulliver's Travels / Eccentric Ambitions

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: human folly, enlightenment, nature of knowledge, ambition, absurdity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-27

Every room has in it one or more projectors; and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Inner Turmoil

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: passion, uncertainty, sincerity, existentialism, enlightenment  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25

I began in the newly aroused ardor of my soul to speak enthusiastically to the Professor. The whole state in which we existed was a mystery--and it wa...
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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...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Gibraltar Currents

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: navigation, enlightenment, discovery, nature, science  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-23

On the 18th of February, about three o’clock in the morning, we were at the entrance of the Straits of Gibraltar. There once existed two currents: an ...
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Frankenstein / Truth and Discovery

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: faith vs reason, enlightenment, certainty, knowledge, revelation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-19

The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens than that which I now affirm is true. Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the ...