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Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Desolation

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: colonialism, identity, oppression, loss, survival  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-29

The ground was covered by groups of the Indians, motionless in their drunken sleep; it seemed a battlefield strewn with the dead. In the background, a...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Desperate Choices

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: oppression, agency, colonialism, ritual, desperation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-27

They then discussed the means of getting at the victim. The guide was familiar with the pagoda of Pillaji, in which, as he declared, the young woman w...
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Gulliver's Travels / Struggle for Freedom

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: oppression, autonomy, violence, fantasy, colonialism  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-20

I lay all this while, as the reader may believe, in great uneasiness. At length, struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, and ...