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Dracula / Intimacy and Control

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: desire, power dynamics, intimacy, agency, dependency  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-29

He rubbed the brandy, as on another occasion, on her lips and gums and on her wrists and the palms of her hands. He said to me:-- “I can do this, all ...
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Pride and Prejudice / Wealth and Matrimony

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: social status, marriage, wealth, desire, class  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-19

Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see...
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Pride and Prejudice / Social Tension

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: unspoken emotions, societal expectations, personal desires, social hierarchy, unreciprocated admiration  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-14

Collins’s offer was now nearly at an end, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncomfortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally ...
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Dracula / Conflict of Interest

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: duty vs desire, emotional conflict, sacrifice, vulnerability  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-07

Finally she went down on her knees and implored me not to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting. It was all very ridiculous but I did not ...
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Pride and Prejudice / Unexpressed Longing

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: sisterhood, desire, social dynamics, family, community  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

Four sides of paper were insufficient to contain all her delight, and all her earnest desire of being loved by her sister. Collins, or any congratulat...
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Gulliver's Travels / Social Dynamics

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: gender roles, societal expectations, desire for freedom, marriage, fidelity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-18

This conversation they are apt to run into with the same temper that boys discover in delighting to hear terrible stories of spirits and hobgoblins, w...
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Gulliver's Travels / Nature of Vice

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: power, morality, human nature, desire, enlightenment  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-13

He was wholly at a loss to know what could be the use or necessity of practising those vices. To clear up which, I endeavoured to give some ideas of t...
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Dracula / Corrupted Purity

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: innocence lost, sexual desire, supernatural horror, moral conflict, fear of death  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-13

The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness. Van Helsing stepped out, and, obedient to his gest...
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Dracula / Tension and Desire

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: supernatural, desire, madness, tension, duality  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-13

He did not, however, betray himself; he nodded slightly and said: “Go on,” in a low voice. Renfield proceeded:-- “He came up to the window in the mist...