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Pride and Prejudice / Marriage Rejection

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: autonomy, societal pressure, conflict, personal choice, gender roles  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-07

“Very well--and this offer of marriage you have refused?” “I have, sir.” “Very well.
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Guide and Neutrality

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: trust, uncertainty, autonomy, exploration, power dynamics  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-22

There remained the guide: what course would he adopt? In default of his assistance, it was necessary to be assured of his neutrality.
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Frankenstein / Flight and Agency

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: fear, identity, autonomy, conflict, survival  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-09

“A few days after, the Turk entered his daughter’s apartment and told her hastily that he had reason to believe that his residence at Leghorn had been...
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Pride and Prejudice / Courage and Conflict

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: self-awareness, social propriety, gender roles, emotional conflict, personal autonomy  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-06

They walked towards the Lucases’, because Kitty wished to call upon Maria; and as Elizabeth saw no occasion for making it a general concern, when Kitt...
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Pride and Prejudice / Social Dilemmas

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: friendship, social expectation, personal conflict, autonomy, reputation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-14

The least agreeable circumstance in the business was the surprise it must occasion to Elizabeth Bennet, whose friendship she valued beyond that of any...
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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 ...