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Frankenstein / Healing Amid Grief

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: loss, healing, vengeance, familial bonds, emotional turmoil  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-04

We are all unhappy; but will not that be an additional motive for you, my son, to return and be our comforter? I now say, Thank God she did not live t...
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Wuthering Heights / Class and Conflict

Author: Emily Brontë (Gutenberg)  | Themes: class struggle, familial ties, social identity, emotional turmoil  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-03

don’t let them say such things,” she pursued in great trouble. “Papa is gone to fetch my cousin from London: my cousin is a gentleman’s son. That my—”...
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Wuthering Heights / Vengeance and Forgiveness

Author: Emily Brontë (Gutenberg)  | Themes: revenge, betrayal, morality, social hierarchy, emotional turmoil  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-24

It is, if I may take an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; for every wrench of agony return a wrench: reduce him to my level. As he was the first to...
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Frankenstein / Internal Conflict

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: family dynamics, emotional turmoil, societal pressure, love versus duty  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-23

Interpret my words with candour and answer me, I conjure you, with confidence and sincerity.” I listened to my father in silence and remained for some...
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Frankenstein / Condemnations Weight

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: injustice, despair, societal judgment, power dynamics, emotional turmoil  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-23

The ballots had been thrown; they were all black, and Justine was condemned. I had before experienced sensations of horror, and I have endeavoured to ...
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Pride and Prejudice / Familial Conflict

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: love, duty, regret, societal pressure, emotional turmoil  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-18

Darcy should hear the first raptures of her joy, than the first vehemence of her disapprobation. Darcy rise also and follow him, and her agitation on ...
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Frankenstein / Desolation and Vulnerability

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: isolation, fear, despair, nature, emotional turmoil  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half frightened, as it were, instinctively, finding myself so desolate. Before I had quitted your apartment, ...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Marriage and Regret

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Themes: agency, societal norms, emotional turmoil, personal choice, gender dynamics  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-29

Lestrade of Scotland Yard.” “You were not yourself at fault at all, then?” “From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that the lady h...