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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Primal Confrontation

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: survival, instinct, evolution, violence, chaos  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-31

The gorilla placed himself on the defensive, and clutching a bone some seven or eight feet in length, a perfect club, aimed a deadly blow at the hideo...
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The War of the Worlds / Urban Conflict

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: violence, mortality, trauma, urban decay  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-13

Going on towards Brompton, the streets were quiet again. Here I came once more upon the black powder in the streets and upon dead bodies. I saw altoge...
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The War of the Worlds / Confronting Death

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: mortality, violence, revelation, vulnerability, fate  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-10

When it came, I saw that he was a sturdy man, cheaply but not shabbily dressed; his head was bent under his body, and he lay crumpled up close to the ...
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Gulliver's Travels / Struggle for Freedom

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: oppression, autonomy, violence, fantasy, colonialism  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-20

I lay all this while, as the reader may believe, in great uneasiness. At length, struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, and ...
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Dracula / Dichotomy of Silence

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: violence, tranquility, existential struggle, nature, duality  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-16

the same thing happened--violent all day then quiet from moonrise to sunrise.