Theme: modernity
Around the World in Eighty Days / Indifference and Journey
It might be thought that, in his anxiety, he would be constantly watching the changes of the wind, the disorderly raging of the billows—every chance, ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Geographical Boundaries
Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. “We are on the outskirts of ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Railroad Connections
Omaha is connected with Chicago by the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, which runs directly east, and passes fifty stations. Fogg and his party reach...
The War of the Worlds / Competition and Isolation
He made a wide curve to avoid me, as though he feared I might prove a fresh competitor. As the yelping died away down the silent road, the wailing sou...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Journey and Time
So, because you can go round it in three months—” “In eighty days,” interrupted Phileas Fogg. “Only eighty days, now that the section between Rothal a...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Cultural Intersections
The dishes, of bell metal, were placed on the table, and we took our places. Undoubtedly we had to do with civilised people, and, had it not been for ...
Dracula / Strategic Forethought
As usual Van Helsing had thought ahead of everyone else, and was prepared with an exact ordering of our work. “It is perhaps well,” he said, “that at ...
The War of the Worlds / Indiscriminate Warfare
Never before in the history of warfare had destruction been so indiscriminate and so universal. And shining with the growing light of the east, three ...
The War of the Worlds / Disruption and Isolation
I could just see the curate’s face, a dim, oval shape, and his collar and cuffs. Outside there began a metallic hammering, then a violent hooting, and...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Journeying in a Dream
“Thanks, yes, the passport is all right.” “And you are looking about you?” “Yes; but we travel so fast that I seem to be journeying in a dream. So thi...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Race Against Time
Is it uncommon for the best ocean steamers to be two or three days behind time? But a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communi...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Longing for the Past
Was he dreaming of those generations long since disappeared? Was it here this strange man came to steep himself in historical recollections, and live ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Traveling with Purpose
Fogg and his party reached the station, and they only had time to get into the cars. They had seen nothing of Omaha; but Passepartout confessed to him...