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Dracula / Loss and Mourning

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: grief, family, vulnerability, mortality, solace  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-13

The wind rushed in through the broken window, and the door slammed to. They lifted off the body of my dear mother, and laid her, covered up with a she...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Love and Loss

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Themes: grief, familial love, vulnerability, masculinity, emotional conflict  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

My family itself is so small that it will not take me long to describe it. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I had to love. I could not be...
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Frankenstein / Emotional Resilience

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: grief, support, emotional connection, healing  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25

They elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillised it. In some degree, also, t...
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Dracula / Consciousness and Death

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: mortality, grief, family bonds, love, sacrifice  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-20

It will be much difference, mark me, whether she dies conscious or in her sleep. Wake that poor boy, and let him come and see the last; he trusts us, ...