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Pride and Prejudice / Family Honor Dilemma

Author: Jane Austen  | Themes: reputation, agency, social class, secrecy, familial duty

He believed him to be imprudent and extravagant; and since this sad affair has taken place, it is said that he left Meryton greatly in debt: but I hop...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Monstrous Encounters

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: fear, nature, survival, vulnerability, exploration

To leeward is a turtle about forty feet wide, and a serpent quite as long, with an enormous and hideous head peering from out the waters. Look which w...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Fate of Explorers

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: exploration, irony, human vulnerability, fate, sacrifice

Amongst other things, we happened to speak of the situation of the _Nautilus_, run aground in exactly the same spot in this strait where Dumont d’Urvi...
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Dracula / Moral Dilemmas

Author: Bram Stoker  | Themes: responsibility, sacrifice, inaction, knowledge, loyalty

We found both places; six boxes in each and we destroyed them all!” “Destroyed?” asked the Professor. “For him!” We were silent for a minute, and then...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Trust and Redemption

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: trust, loyalty, determination, justice, exploration

Fix evidently was no longer an enemy, but an ally; he was faithfully keeping his word. Dinner over, the coach which was to convey the passengers and t...
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Frankenstein / Decay and Rationality

Author: Mary Shelley  | Themes: mortality, decay, rationality, education, fearlessness

In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors. I do not ever remember to ...