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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Knowledge and Perception

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: science vs emotion, knowledge disparity, struggle for understanding  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-26

Anxious as I was, I was for a long time doomed to disappointment. Hans coolly drew it in, and with it a fish, which struggled violently to escape. "It...
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The War of the Worlds / Preservation of Knowledge

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: knowledge, preservation, humanism, science, existentialism  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

It’s saving our knowledge and adding to it is the thing. We must make great safe places down deep, and get all the books we can; not novels and poetry...
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Dracula / Hypnotic Intrigues

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: psychological manipulation, trust, control, vulnerability, science vs superstition  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

Mina woke me early, about the same time as yesterday, and asked me to bring Dr. I thought that it was another occasion for hypnotism, and without ques...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Paradox

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: knowledge vs ignorance, nature's complexity, human curiosity, preservation vs exploitation, science and empire  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-17

"Providence appears to have designed the preservation in this vast and mysterious hothouse of antediluvian plants, to prove the sagacity of learned me...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Exploration and Knowledge

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: curiosity, isolation, discovery, science, nature  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-29

We began to hope that we should find some of those saurians which science has succeeded in reconstructing from bits of bone or cartilage. I took up th...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Rationality and Fear

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: science, fear, submission, nature, emotion  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25

If, then, the steam remains in its normal or habitual state, if their energy does not increase, and if you add to this, the remark that the wind is no...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Gibraltar Currents

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: navigation, enlightenment, discovery, nature, science  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-23

On the 18th of February, about three o’clock in the morning, we were at the entrance of the Straits of Gibraltar. There once existed two currents: an ...