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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Fate of Explorers

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: exploration, irony, human vulnerability, fate, sacrifice  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-10

Amongst other things, we happened to speak of the situation of the _Nautilus_, run aground in exactly the same spot in this strait where Dumont d’Urvi...
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Pride and Prejudice / Social Strife

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: authority, class, defiance, personal agency, irony  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-01

Allow me to say, Lady Catherine, that the arguments with which you have supported this extraordinary application have been as frivolous as the applica...
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Gulliver's Travels / Taxing Beauty

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: gender inequality, commodification, societal critique, beauty standards, irony  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-08

The women were proposed to be taxed according to their beauty and skill in dressing, wherein they had the same privilege with the men, to be determine...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Upward Struggles

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: exploration, denial, nature, human interaction, irony  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-16

For some time I have noticed that we are going upwards." "Upwards," cried my uncle, shrugging his shoulders, "how can that be?" "There can be no doubt...
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Dracula / Harvest of Flies

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: humor, domesticity, nature, irony, vulnerability  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-04

I thought it well to humour him: so he is back in his room with the window open. He has the sugar of his tea spread out on the window-sill, and is rea...