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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Unprepared Voyage

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: human ambition, fragility, nature's power, existential dread, folly  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-28

We are utterly unprepared for a sea voyage; it is simply madness to think of performing a journey of five hundred leagues upon a wretched pile of beam...
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Gulliver's Travels / Observation and Folly

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: wisdom vs folly, isolation, observation, authority, enlightenment  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-22

That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them. That the weather being calm, he...
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The War of the Worlds / Human Folly and Resilience

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: displacement, chaos, resilience, survival, folly  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

All that’s happened so far is through our not having the sense to keep quiet—worrying them with guns and such foolery. And losing our heads, and rushi...
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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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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...