Home Archive Reflection Archive FAQ Support (Ko-fi)

Theme: travel

Cover image

Around the World in Eighty Days / Journeying in a Dream

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: travel, disorientation, exploration, modernity, discovery  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-09

“Thanks, yes, the passport is all right.” “And you are looking about you?” “Yes; but we travel so fast that I seem to be journeying in a dream. So thi...
Cover image

Around the World in Eighty Days / Race Against Time

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: punctuality, ambition, media influence, travel anxiety, modernity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-09

Is it uncommon for the best ocean steamers to be two or three days behind time? But a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communi...
Cover image

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Social Dynamics

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Themes: class distinction, family ties, business travel, social hierarchy, identity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-19

At last, when nothing else would do, he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be ou...