Theme: imperialism
The War of the Worlds / Isolation and Fear
After eating we crept back to the scullery, and there I must have dozed again, for when presently I looked round I was alone. The thudding vibration c...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Power Shift
The celebrated East India Company was all-powerful from 1756, when the English first gained a foothold on the spot where now stands the city of Madras...
The War of the Worlds / Gathering Storm
“We are in the midst of it,” I said, “quiet as it is. That flicker in the sky tells of the gathering storm. Yonder, I take it are the Martians, and Lo...
The War of the Worlds / Martian Surveillance
It was a few minutes past nine that night when these three sentinels were joined by four other Martians, each carrying a thick black tube. A similar t...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Commerce and Conflict
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...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Character Dynamics
Aouda fastened her great eyes, “clear as the sacred lakes of the Himalaya,” upon him; but the intractable Fogg, as reserved as ever, did not seem at a...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Exploration and Discovery
I saw in the morning, some miles to the windward, the elevated summits of the island. These waters furnished our table with excellent fish, mackerel, ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Temple Intrusion
Happily the temple walls were built of brick and wood, which could be penetrated with little difficulty; after one brick had been taken out, the rest ...
The War of the Worlds / Martian Physiology
They were huge round bodies—or, rather, heads—about four feet in diameter, each body having in front of it a face. This face had no nostrils—indeed, t...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Tensions
it’s you, is it, Englishman?” cried the colonel; “it’s you who are going to play a spade!” “And who plays it,” replied Phileas Fogg coolly, throwing d...
The War of the Worlds / War Fever
For my own part, I had been feverishly excited all day. Something very like the war fever that occasionally runs through a civilised community had got...
The War of the Worlds / National Identity
A number of people were standing about it, and some sappers were busy in the midst of it. Over it flaunted a Union Jack, flapping cheerfully in the mo...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Continents and Men
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...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Exploration and Irony
sir,” said Captain Nemo, in an ironical tone, “you will always be the same. I affirm that not only can the _Nautilus_ disengage itself, but also that ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Embarrassment and Journey
Fogg choose to make him, Passepartout, a present of Kiouni, he would be very much embarrassed; and these thoughts did not cease worrying him for a lon...