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Wuthering Heights / Confinement and Choice

Author: Emily Brontë  | Themes: authority, autonomy, confinement, tension, gender roles

They wouldn’t let me go to the end of the garden wall.” “_You_! I should be sorry to ask you to cross the threshold, for my convenience, on such a nig...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Mapping Discovery

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: exploration, scientific method, precision, knowledge, inquiry

I wish to be able on our return to the upper regions to make a map of our journey, a kind of vertical section of the globe, which will be, as it were,...
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Wuthering Heights / Darkness and Innocence

Author: Emily Brontë  | Themes: childhood, social inequality, darkness, mystery, loss

Then it grew dark; she would have had them to bed, but they begged sadly to be allowed to stay up; and, just about eleven o’clock, the door-latch was ...
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Gulliver's Travels / Wild Encounter

Author: Jonathan Swift  | Themes: domestication, nature vs. civilization, instinct, sensory experience

However, I once caught a young male of three years old, and endeavoured, by all marks of tenderness, to make it quiet; but the little imp fell a squal...
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Frankenstein / Hope and Despair

Author: Mary Shelley  | Themes: love, despair, romanticism, personal connection, societal pressure

I never saw any woman who excited, as Elizabeth does, my warmest admiration and affection. My future hopes and prospects are entirely bound up in the ...
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Pride and Prejudice / Urgent Plea

Author: Jane Austen  | Themes: familial duty, emotional turmoil, social obligation, urgency, distress

I take up my pen again to do, what I have just told you I would not; but circumstances are such, that I cannot help earnestly begging you all to come ...