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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Urban Landscape

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: commerce vs spirituality, identity, transition, simplicity, community  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-18

The longest of the streets of Reykjavik runs parallel to the shore. In this street the merchants and traders live in wooden huts made with beams of wo...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Loss of Tradition

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: progress vs tradition, industrialization, spirituality, historical legacy, gratitude  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-07

The captain and passengers do not prepare for their departure by offering propitiatory sacrifices; and, on their return, they no longer go ornamented ...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Language and Meaning

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: cultural transmission, spirituality, generational dialogue, linguistic fluidity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-19

Nothing intelligible came out, except that the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth made <i>ice</i> in English; the eighty-fourth, eighty-fifth, and e...
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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 ...