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Dracula / Intimacy and Obligation

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: hospitality, time, intimacy, transition, social dynamics  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-12

After supper I smoked, as on the last evening, and the Count stayed with me, chatting and asking questions on every conceivable subject, hour after ho...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Strategic Navigation

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: maritime trade, colonialism, navigation, economic expansion, international relations  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-05

In going to Shanghai we should not be forced to sail wide of the Chinese coast, which would be a great advantage, as the currents run northward, and w...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Chaos and Isolation

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: nature, isolation, time, chaos, human condition  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-04

There is a constant emission of light from the storm clouds; the electric matter is incessantly released; evidently the gaseous principles of the air ...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Fate and Explosions

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: human ambition, industrial dangers, time's weight, resignation, scientific progress  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-26

"We are bound to go through," responded the Professor, tapping me on the back. At midnight, our work as miners was completely finished; the charge of ...