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Frankenstein / Familial Expectations

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: health, ambition, duty, identity, familial ties  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-12

Your father’s health is vigorous, and he asks but to see you, but to be assured that you are well; and not a care will ever cloud his benevolent count...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Embarrassment and Journey

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: duty, friendship, exploration, imperialism, internal conflict  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-27

Fogg choose to make him, Passepartout, a present of Kiouni, he would be very much embarrassed; and these thoughts did not cease worrying him for a lon...
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Dracula / Cliffs and Shadows

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: mortality, isolation, regional dialect, duty, darkness  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-19

Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over the laneway to the East Pier so steeply that some of the flat tombstones--“thruff...