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Pride and Prejudice / Social Strife

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: authority, class, defiance, personal agency, irony  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-01

Allow me to say, Lady Catherine, that the arguments with which you have supported this extraordinary application have been as frivolous as the applica...
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Pride and Prejudice / Defiance of Duty

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: personal agency, societal expectations, marriage, individual choice, feminism  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-21

You are determined to ruin him in the opinion of all his friends, and make him the contempt of the world.” “Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude,” ...
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Pride and Prejudice / Colonels Arrival

Author: Jane Austen (Gutenberg)  | Themes: class dynamics, familial ties, social expectations, personal agency, regency society  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-24

Darcy had brought with him a Colonel Fitzwilliam, the younger son of his uncle, Lord ----; and, to the great surprise of all the party, when Mr.
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Justice

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: colonialism, law and authority, personal agency, cultural conflict, economic disparity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-03

Judge Obadiah had unfortunately caught Passepartout’s rash exclamation, which the poor fellow would have given the world to recall. “Inasmuch,” resume...