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Dracula / Grotesque Survival

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: desperation, moral decay, survival instinct, existential crisis, societal norms  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-16

He looked very sad at this, so I said that he must clear out some of them, at all events. He cheerfully acquiesced in this, and I gave him the same ti...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Philosophical Calm

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: intellectual detachment, existential crisis, nature's power  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

But a learned man, a philosopher, is nothing if not a philosopher, when he keeps his ideas calm and collected; and certainly the Professor possessed t...
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The War of the Worlds / Ordinary Catastrophe

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: existential crisis, fragility, chaos, identity, introspection  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-12

He extended a thin white hand and spoke in almost a complaining tone. The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain ...