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Dracula / Confinement of Strength

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: confinement, resilience, mental health, societal control, danger  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-15

It is a mercy that we have found out his strength and his danger in good time. With strength and determination like his, he might have done wild work ...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Domestic Turmoil

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Themes: mental health, societal expectations, emotional distress, companionship, vulnerability  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-15

Or should you rather that I sent James off to bed?” “Oh, no, no! I am so frightened about him!” It was not the first time that she had spoken to us 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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Dracula / Strength in Vulnerability

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: health, masculinity, supernatural, care, vulnerability  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-25

You are weakened already.” As he spoke he took off his coat and rolled up his shirt-sleeve. Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return...
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Dracula / Vitality and Loss

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: transformation, vitality, societal ideals, femininity, health  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-15

Harker came in to see me this afternoon she wasn’t the same; it was like tea after the teapot had been watered.” Here we all moved, but no one said a ...