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Dracula / Gender and Truth

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: honesty, gender roles, societal expectations, marriage, fairness  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-29

You will tell him, because I would, if I were in your place, certainly tell Arthur. A woman ought to tell her husband everything--don’t you think so, ...
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Pride and Prejudice / Wealth and Matrimony

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: social status, marriage, wealth, desire, class  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-19

Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see...
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Pride and Prejudice / Social Expectations

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: marriage, property, social hierarchy, gender roles, community  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the...
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Pride and Prejudice / Familial Tensions

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: disappointment, agency, marriage, authority, social norms  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

I have not been in the habit of brooking disappointment.” “_That_ will make your Ladyship’s situation at present more pitiable; but it will have no ef...
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Gulliver's Travels / Social Dynamics

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: gender roles, societal expectations, desire for freedom, marriage, fidelity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-18

This conversation they are apt to run into with the same temper that boys discover in delighting to hear terrible stories of spirits and hobgoblins, w...
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Pride and Prejudice / Marriage Aspirations

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: social class, family dynamics, marriage, women's roles, economic security  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-23

His being such a charming young man, and so rich, and living but three miles from them, were the first points of self-gratulation; and then it was suc...
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Pride and Prejudice / Marriage and Agency

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: social status, individual agency, marriage, pride, societal expectations  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-20

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of...