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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Immovable Barriers

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: isolation, exploration, human ambition, nature's power, navigation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-02

It was no longer either streams, packs, or ice-fields, but an interminable and immovable barrier, formed by mountains soldered together. I knew that t...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Grandeur

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: geology, mythology, power of nature, human ambition, sublime  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-21

Is it not quite evident that this gallery was formerly the outlet for the pent-up lava in the interior of the earth, and that these eruptive matters t...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Commerce and Conflict

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: adventure, imperialism, pragmatism, exploration, human ambition  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-16

He demanded damages for the “breakage” of the pyramid; and Phileas Fogg appeased him by giving him a handful of banknotes. Fogg and Aouda, followed by...
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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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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Continents and Men

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: geological evolution, human ambition, imperialism, ecological balance, philosophical introspection  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-09

These are coral islands, slowly raised, but continuous, created by the daily work of polypi. Then this new island will be joined later on to the neigh...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Fate and Explosions

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: human ambition, industrial dangers, time's weight, resignation, scientific progress  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-26

"We are bound to go through," responded the Professor, tapping me on the back. At midnight, our work as miners was completely finished; the charge of ...