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Wuthering Heights / Inheritance and Greed

Author: Emily Brontë (Gutenberg)  | Themes: loss, inheritance, familial tension, childhood, materialism  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-01

“He’s in the court,” he replied, “talking to Doctor Kenneth; who says uncle is dying, truly, at last. I’m glad, for I shall be master of the Grange af...
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Dracula / Paternal Loss

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: surrogate relationships, grief, inheritance, class disparity, love  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-23

Some may not think it so sad for us, but we had both come to so love him that it really seems as though we had lost a father. I never knew either fath...
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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Geological Curiosities

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: inheritance, exploration, knowledge, nature, anxiety  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-19

As a true nephew of the great Professor Hardwigg, and despite my preoccupation and doleful fears of what was to come, I observed with great interest t...
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Pride and Prejudice / Survival Anxiety

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: social status, gender roles, inheritance, family duty, emotional despair  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-28

Let us flatter ourselves that _I_ may be the survivor.” This was not very consoling to Mrs. Bennet; and, therefore, instead of making any answer, she ...
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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...