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Wuthering Heights / Class and Conflict

Author: Emily Brontë  | Themes: class struggle, familial ties, social identity, emotional turmoil

don’t let them say such things,” she pursued in great trouble. “Papa is gone to fetch my cousin from London: my cousin is a gentleman’s son. That my—”...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Observational Conflict

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle  | Themes: deduction, skepticism, science, mystery, tension

In each case, not only are the ‘e’s’ slurred and the ‘r’s’ tailless, but you will observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen ot...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Nautilus and Nature

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: exploration, technology, nature, danger, isolation

“Certainly,” he replied; “since the reservoirs are not empty; and, when empty, the _Nautilus_ must rise to the surface of the sea.” We were in open se...
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The War of the Worlds / Human Migration Chaos

Author: H.G. Wells  | Themes: displacement, survival, chaos, conquest, transformation

The legendary hosts of Goths and Huns, the hugest armies Asia has ever seen, would have been but a drop in that current. And this was no disciplined m...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Immovable Barriers

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: isolation, exploration, human ambition, nature's power, navigation

It was no longer either streams, packs, or ice-fields, but an interminable and immovable barrier, formed by mountains soldered together. I knew that t...
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Frankenstein / Mortality and Coincidence

Author: Mary Shelley  | Themes: mortality, coincidence, tranquility, fate, the uncanny

I could not help being struck by the strange coincidences that had taken place during this eventful night; but, knowing that I had been conversing wit...