A theme

longing

4 fragments in which it recurs.

1 Isolation Yearning Frankenstein

I admired virtue and good feelings and loved the gentle manners and amiable qualities of my cottagers, but I was shut out from intercourse with them, except through mean…
2 Caregiving and Desire Wuthering Heights

And it is quite natural that you should desire amusement at your age; and that you would weary of nursing a sick man, and that man _only_ your father. Catherine, his hap…
3 Imprisoned Hope Frankenstein

I stretched out my hand to him and cried, “Are you then safe—and Elizabeth—and Ernest?” My father calmed me with assurances of their welfare and endeavoured, by dwelling…
4 Fading Aspirations Around the World in Eighty Days

But five days after the article in the bulletin of the Geographical Society appeared, the demand began to subside: “Phileas Fogg” declined. They were offered by packages…