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Pride and Prejudice / Familial Duty

Author: Jane Austen  | Themes: family loyalty, ambition, social mobility, skepticism, urban life

Bennet thought it possible they might have gone to one of them, on their first coming to London, before they procured lodgings. Gardiner himself did n...
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The War of the Worlds / Destruction and Capture

Author: H.G. Wells  | Themes: war, dehumanization, industrialization, vulnerability, loss

And I saw one, one day, out by Wandsworth, picking houses to pieces and routing among the wreckage. So soon as they’ve settled all our guns and ships,...
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Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics

Author: Jane Austen  | Themes: feminine identity, social status, leisure, youthful exuberance, societal norms

Bennet was doubly engaged, on one hand collecting an account of the present fashions from Jane, who sat some way below her, and on the other, retailin...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Victorian Finance

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: trust, wealth, accountability, social dynamics, crime

Half an hour later several members of the Reform came in and drew up to the fireplace, where a coal fire was steadily burning. Fogg’s usual partners a...
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Dracula / Time and Morality

Author: Bram Stoker  | Themes: loss, betrayal, justice, possession, existential crisis

“Because,” he said sternly, “it is too late--or too early. “This was stolen in the night.” “How, stolen,” I asked in wonder, “since you have it now?” ...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Scientific Inquiry

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: death, science, preservation, ethics, humanity

But after what we now see, to allow a doubt is to insult scientific inquiry. There is the body; you can see it; you can touch it. It is not a skeleton...