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Only pairs that share a concept worth arguing. Each page points back to the books and the cross-book hubs.
Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre
Two marriage plots in which the heroine’s refusals define the book — comic social judgment in Austen, Gothic moral crisis in Brontë.
Jane Eyre and Frankenstein
A madwoman in the attic and a creature refused by his maker: two studies of the person a household locks out, and of the narrator who must answer for that locked door.
Pride and Prejudice and Great Expectations
Two novels of social climbing — Austen’s marriage market and Dickens’s mysterious patronage — that disagree about whether gentility can be educated into gratitude.
Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights
Two revenge plots born from rejection: an abandoned creature who can argue his case, and an outsider who turns the house into a machine of payback.