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Around the World in Eighty Days / Greed and Value

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: greed, colonialism, suspense, cultural exploitation, emotional stakes  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-04

Returning to the Indian, whose small, sharp eyes, glistening with avarice, betrayed that with him it was only a question of how great a price he could...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Paradox

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: knowledge vs ignorance, nature's complexity, human curiosity, preservation vs exploitation, science and empire  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-17

"Providence appears to have designed the preservation in this vast and mysterious hothouse of antediluvian plants, to prove the sagacity of learned me...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Chase and Escape

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: pursuit, survival, nature, exploitation, resilience  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-16

The harpoon regained, we followed in pursuit of the animal. The latter came now and then to the surface to breathe. Its wound had not weakened it, for...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Family and Obligation

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Themes: social obligation, class struggle, family ties, law and authority, exploitation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-15

“‘Here we are, Jack,’ says he, touching me on the arm; ‘we’ll be as good as a family to you. There’s two of us, me and my son, and you can have the ke...