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Dracula / Guilt and Uncertainty

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: guilt, loss, uncertainty, forgiveness, human connection  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-09

He doubted me when I took him from her kiss when she was dying. I know he has forgiven me because in some mistaken idea I have done things that preven...
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The War of the Worlds / Fear and Avoidance

Author: H.G. Wells (Gutenberg)  | Themes: competition, loss, isolation, tension, wreckage  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-02

He made a wide curve to avoid me, as though he feared I might prove a fresh competitor. As the yelping died away down the silent road, the wailing sou...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Desolation

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: colonialism, identity, oppression, loss, survival  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-29

The ground was covered by groups of the Indians, motionless in their drunken sleep; it seemed a battlefield strewn with the dead. In the background, a...
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Frankenstein / Journey of Despair

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: loss, trauma, isolation, nature, survival  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-19

Six years had passed since then: _I_ was a wreck, but nought had changed in those savage and enduring scenes. I performed the first part of my journey...