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The Woman in White

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Mood: Tense and mysterious. Plot Summary: Walter Hartright encounters a mysterious woman dressed in white, and it leads him to a complex plot of identity theft, wrongful confinement, and an elaborate inheritance scam.

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Jane Eyre

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Mood: Dark and brooding. Plot Summary: Young governess Jane Eyre falls in love with her employer, Mr. Rochester, and discovers the dark secrets of his past and the hidden existence of his insane wife confined in the attic.

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Wuthering Heights

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Mood: Gloomy and passionate. Plot Summary: The turbulent and tragic love story of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and the effects of their doomed relationship on the generations that follow.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Mood: Philosophical and macabre. Plot Summary: Dorian Gray, a young man, becomes the subject of a painting that bears the brunt of his sins and age, while he retains his outward beauty and continues a life of hedonism and moral decline.

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The Fall of the House of Usher

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Mood: Decaying and melancholic. Plot Summary: The narrator visits his ill friend Roderick Usher in his dilapidated mansion. Strange events lead up to the collapse of the house, mirroring the demise of the Usher family.

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Dracula

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Mood: Foreboding and thrilling. Plot Summary: Jonathan Harker, a young solicitor, finds himself imprisoned by Count Dracula in Transylvania. Dracula travels to England to spread the undead curse, and Harker and his friends must stop him.

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Rebecca

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Mood: Haunting and suspenseful. Plot Summary: A young woman marries a wealthy widower and moves to his large English country house, Manderley, where she finds the memory of his first wife, Rebecca, still dictates everything that happens within its walls.

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The Turn of the Screw

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Mood: Ambiguous and eerie. Plot Summary: A young governess is hired to look after two children at an isolated estate. She becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted and that the children are being influenced by malevolent forces.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

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Mood: Eerie and ominous. Plot Summary: Sherlock Holmes investigates the legendary curse of the Baskerville family and the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, suspected to be killed by a spectral hound.

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Mood: Dark and reflective. Plot Summary: Dr. Jekyll creates a potion that transforms him into Mr. Hyde, a man without moral restraint. The dual nature of man is explored as Dr. Jekyll struggles with his alter ego.

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