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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Decay and Discovery

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: impermanence, exploration, civilization, nature, duality  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-10

I would not even seek to understand the caprice which had decided Captain Nemo upon entering the gulf. But I quite approved of the _Nautilus_ entering...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Maritime Reflection

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: nature, exploration, human endeavor, permanence, transience  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-19

I therefore seated myself at the end of a promontory, at the foot of which the waves broke in incessant rolls. I looked round a bay formed by projecti...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Human and Nature

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: loyalty, exploration, responsibility, impermanence, companionship  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

The estimable beast certainly deserved some consideration. Fogg choose to make him, Passepartout, a present of Kiouni, he would be very much embarrass...