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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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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Observation and Discovery

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: exploration, nature, knowledge, spirituality, camaraderie  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-26

Conseil and I remained to survey the shore, observing and studying until five o’clock. Then I went to bed, not, however, without invoking, like the In...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Reflections on Prehistory

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: imagination, evolution, nature, spirituality, contemplation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-18

All day my thoughts were bent upon these speculations, and my imagination scarcely regained a degree of calmness and power of reflection until after a...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Exchange

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: exoticism, performance, identity, colonialism, spirituality  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-16

Batulcar, was to commence at three o’clock, and soon the deafening instruments of a Japanese orchestra resounded at the door. Passepartout, though he ...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Ceremonial Procession

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: sacred rituals, community, symbolism, cultural syncretism, music  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-15

The head of the procession soon appeared beneath the trees, a hundred paces away; and the strange figures who performed the religious ceremony were ea...