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Pride and Prejudice / Class and Judgment

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: social perception, class conflict, internal conflict, beauty standards, familial ties  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-10

I will answer for it, he never cared three straws about her. Who _could_ about such a nasty little freckled thing?” Elizabeth was shocked to think tha...
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Gulliver's Travels / Taxing Beauty

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: gender inequality, commodification, societal critique, beauty standards, irony  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-08

The women were proposed to be taxed according to their beauty and skill in dressing, wherein they had the same privilege with the men, to be determine...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Social Dynamics

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Themes: class distinctions, personal sacrifice, social hierarchy, beauty standards, economic dependency  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

You need not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which would, I s...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Identity and Appearance

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Themes: societal expectations, beauty standards, self-expression, conformity, individuality  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-18

“‘Oh, yes,’ said he, turning to me, ‘we are very much obliged to you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut your hair. I assure ...