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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Vigilance at Sea

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: observation, duty, vigilance, mythology, isolation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-02

I leave you to judge how eyes were used on board the _Abraham Lincoln_. For my own part I was not behind the others, and left to no one my share of da...
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Pride and Prejudice / Survival Anxiety

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: social status, gender roles, inheritance, family duty, emotional despair  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-28

Let us flatter ourselves that _I_ may be the survivor.” This was not very consoling to Mrs. Bennet; and, therefore, instead of making any answer, she ...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Sacrifice and Time

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: time, sacrifice, ambition, duty, exploration  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-21

Fogg!” cried she, clasping his hands and covering them with tears. Fogg, “if we do not lose a moment.” Phileas Fogg, by this resolution, inevitably sa...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Pursuit and Tension

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: obsession, duty, time, conflict, resolve  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-07

“I shall do all I can to find him,” replied Phileas Fogg. While Fix, in a feverish, nervous state, repaired to the pilot-boat, the others directed the...
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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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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Illness and Inquiry

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Themes: mortality, duty, social hierarchy, emotional detachment  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

“There is serious news this morning,” Lestrade observed. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is despaired of.” “An elderly man, I presume?” s...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Crowd Anticipation

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: democracy, industrialization, public space, civic duty, political engagement  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

Opposite them, on the other side of the street, between a coal wharf and a petroleum warehouse, a large platform had been erected in the open air, tow...
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Pride and Prejudice / Social Class Conflict

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: class struggle, family expectations, love versus duty  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

It was the favourite wish of _his_ mother, as well as of hers. While in their cradles we planned the union; and now, at the moment when the wishes of ...
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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...