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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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Pride and Prejudice / Class and Judgment

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: social perception, class conflict, internal conflict, beauty standards, familial ties  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-10

I will answer for it, he never cared three straws about her. Who _could_ about such a nasty little freckled thing?” Elizabeth was shocked to think tha...
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Pride and Prejudice / Colonels Arrival

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: class dynamics, familial ties, social expectations, personal agency, regency society  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-24

Darcy had brought with him a Colonel Fitzwilliam, the younger son of his uncle, Lord ----; and, to the great surprise of all the party, when Mr.
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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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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Legacy and Fate

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Themes: inheritance, mystery, fate, familial ties, uncertainty  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-12

I had begun to take comfort too soon, however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in which it had come upon my father.” The young man t...