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Pride and Prejudice / Public Perception

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: marriage, social status, media, identity, critique  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-12

Miss Lucas is married and settled: and one of my own daughters. I suppose you have heard of it; indeed, you must have seen it in the papers. It was in...
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Dracula / Urban Anxieties

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: innocence lost, societal neglect, urban crime, media influence, fear  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-17

To-day he came back, and almost bounded into the room at about half-past five o’clock, and thrust last night’s “Westminster Gazette” into my hand. “Wh...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Media and Truth

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg)  | Themes: knowledge limitation, societal intrigue, media influence, public perception, mystery  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-30

I have already learned all that is in the public prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct—this article, for example, as to the di...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Exploration and Truth

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: exploration, media reliability, native cultures, skepticism, colonial discourse  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-19

long., had seen some iron bars and red stuffs used by the natives of these parts. Dumont d’Urville, much perplexed, and not knowing how to credit the ...
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Dracula / Desire for Urgency

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: immediacy, existential anxiety, conflict  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-11

This did not at all satisfy him, for he said quickly:-- “But I fear, Dr. I desire to go at once--here--now--this very hour--this very moment, if I may...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Race Against Time

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: punctuality, ambition, media influence, travel anxiety, modernity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-09

Is it uncommon for the best ocean steamers to be two or three days behind time? But a single delay would suffice to fatally break the chain of communi...