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Frankenstein / Self-Taught Pursuits

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: quest for knowledge, self-discovery, enlightenment ideals, innocence and ignorance  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-29

It may appear strange that such should arise in the eighteenth century; but while I followed the routine of education in the schools of Geneva, I was,...
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Dracula / Silent Decisions

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: caregiving, home, relationships, sacrifice, ignorance  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-05

I determined not to wake her, but that, when I should return from this new search, I would arrange for her going back to Exeter. I think she would be ...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Scientific Inquiry

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: knowledge versus ignorance, fear of the unknown, evolution of thought  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-05

What would become of us?" "Don't be alarmed at the heat, my boy." "How so?" "Neither you nor anybody else know anything about the real state of the ea...
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Dracula / Science and Belief

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: knowledge versus ignorance, mortality, the supernatural, human understanding, skepticism  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

Then, friend John, am I to take it that you simply accept fact, and are satisfied to let from premise to conclusion be a blank? Then tell me--for I am...
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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...