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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...