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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Longing and Confinement

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: nostalgia, freedom, identity, exile, memory  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-27

His past life is always present to him; everything that we are forbidden he regrets. Nothing; he is not learned like you, sir; and has not the same ta...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Psychological Turmoil

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: memory, hallucination, familial bonds, trauma, perception  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

It was with the greatest difficulty that I succeeded in doing so. Hamburg, the house on the Konigstrasse, my dear cousin Gretchen--all that world whic...
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Dracula / Perception and Myth

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: fear, memory, folklore, class, uncertainty  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

And that’s all I know for certing.” “Did any one else see anything?” “One of our gard’ners was a-comin’ ’ome about that time from a ’armony, when he s...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Longing for the Past

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: memory, nostalgia, identity, history, modernity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-04

Was he dreaming of those generations long since disappeared? Was it here this strange man came to steep himself in historical recollections, and live ...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Inner Turmoil

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: escapism, naval conflict, memory, introspection, existential struggle  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-03

My uncle, who for a short time had been withdrawn from his absorbing reveries by the novel incidents of this sea fight, fell back again apparently int...