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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Youth and Disorientation

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: exploration, family bonds, innocence lost, physicality, psychological conflict  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-02

My uncle at once showed me the way, running up the steps like a schoolboy. I followed as well as I could, though no sooner was I outside the tower, th...
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The War of the Worlds / Struggle and Despair

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: morality, despair, brutality, human nature, psychological conflict  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-06

As the days wore on, his utter carelessness of any consideration so intensified our distress and danger that I had, much as I loathed doing it, to res...