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Pride and Prejudice / Longing and Separation

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: unrequited love, social class, courtship, isolation, hope  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-03

They were confined for the evening at different tables; and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the ro...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Sanity and Madness

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: mental struggle, light and darkness, perception of reality, hope, existential doubt  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-31

Surely my brain had not been affected by my fall, and all that occurred during the last twenty-four hours was not the frenzied visions of madness? And...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Shadows on the Bridge

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: despair, struggle, marginalization, survival, hope  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-19

The bridge was covered with black, agitated shadows. The poor creatures were crowding the ratlines, clinging to the masts, struggling under the water.
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Focus and Frustration

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: determination, ingenuity, travel, conflict, hope  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-15

They grumbled and protested, and would certainly have thus attracted Phileas Fogg’s attention if he had not been completely absorbed in his game. Pass...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Echoes of Despair

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: isolation, communication, uncertainty, hope, despair  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-16

help!” Our movements were suspended for an instant; we listened. It might be only a singing in the ear, but it seemed to me as if a cry answered the c...
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Gulliver's Travels / Despair and Ingenuity

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: isolation, survival, desperation, hope, communication  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-09

I then fastened my handkerchief to a stick I usually carried, and thrusting it up the hole, waved it several times in the air, that if any boat or shi...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Domestic Chaos

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Themes: upheaval, urgency, betrayal, hope, despair  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-05

“All is lost.” “We shall see.” He pushed past the servant and rushed into the drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was scatter...
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The War of the Worlds / Hope Amidst Despair

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: resilience, survival, hope, adaptation, psychological transformation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-22

It grew upon my mind, once I could face the facts, that terrible as our position was, there was as yet no justification for absolute despair. Our chie...
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The War of the Worlds / Hope Amid Destruction

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: hope, despair, divine judgment, destruction, existential struggle  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-17

Plentiful hope—for all this destruction!” I began to explain my view of our position. He listened at first, but as I went on the interest dawning in h...