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Dracula / Hidden Histories

Author: Bram Stoker (Gutenberg)  | Themes: time, decay, discovery, secrets, wealth  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-04

None of it that I noticed was less than three hundred years old. There were also chains and ornaments, some jewelled, but all of them old and stained....
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Wuthering Heights / Love and Society

Author: Emily Brontë (Gutenberg)  | Themes: romantic idealism, societal values, superficiality, personal choice, wealth  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-01

Edgar because he is handsome, and young, and cheerful, and rich, and loves you. The last, however, goes for nothing: you would love him without that, ...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Capitalism and Adventure

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: speculation, societal norms, adventure, wealth, risk  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-20

IN WHICH A NEW SPECIES OF FUNDS, UNKNOWN TO THE MONEYED MEN, APPEARS ON ’CHANGE Phileas Fogg rightly suspected that his departure from London would cr...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Gamble of Time

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: risk, ambition, wealth, social dynamics, competition  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-16

Stuart, Fallentin, Sullivan, Flanagan, and Ralph, after consulting each other. “The train leaves for Dover at a quarter before nine. I will take it.” ...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Victorian Finance

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: trust, wealth, accountability, social dynamics, crime  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-04

Half an hour later several members of the Reform came in and drew up to the fireplace, where a coal fire was steadily burning. Fogg’s usual partners a...
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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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Around the World in Eighty Days / Detectives Dilemma

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: obsession, pursuit, morality, desperation, wealth  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-30

Fix saw them leave the carriage and push off in a boat for the steamer, and stamped his feet with disappointment. I’ll follow him to the end of the wo...