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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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Dracula / Disconnection and Nostalgia

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: nostalgia, disconnection, autumn, isolation, inertia  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-03

When we entered we saw with amazement that he had spread out his sugar as of old; the flies, lethargic with the autumn, were beginning to buzz into th...
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The War of the Worlds / Nature and Decay

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: growth decay, urbanization, environmental fragility, contrast, nostalgia  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-03

The red creeper swarmed up the trees about the old palace, and their branches stretched gaunt and dead, and set with shrivelled leaves, from amid its ...