L11. Content notes. AI
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| Book | Genre | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Treasure Island | Thriller and adventure | Content notes: violence (stabbing, shooting, death), mutiny and betrayal, alcohol use, period-typical attitudes. No sexual content. Suitable for ages 10 and up with parental guidance; recommended for ages 12 and up. |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | Thriller and adventure | Content notes: murder, violence, pursuit, espionage. A man is killed off-page. Hannay is hunted and threatened. Explosives are detonated. A man escapes by yacht. No graphic violence, sexual content or abuse. Suitable … |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Thriller and adventure | Content notes: Violence (sword fights, stabbing, murder). Political conspiracy and kidnapping. Alcohol use (the King is drugged). Romantic tension but no explicit content. Themes of duty and sacrifice may be heavy … |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Thriller and adventure | Content notes: casual racism and colonial attitudes toward non-European cultures; suttee (widow burning) depicted in detail; violence (Sioux attack, duel challenge); opium use; brief references to polygamy. No sexual … |
| King Solomon's Mines | Thriller and adventure | Content notes: violence (battle, execution, witch-hunt), death (multiple characters), racism and colonial attitudes, brief romance, starvation and survival horror. The book is not graphic but deals with serious themes. |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Crime and mystery | Content notes: death by fear, murder, animal cruelty (the hound is trained and used as a weapon), brief reference to a murderer, a woman imprisoned by her brother, a woman treated as fallen for divorce. Violence is … |
| A Study in Scarlet | Crime and mystery | Content notes: murder by poisoning, religious persecution, forced marriage, death of a young woman, obsessive revenge, brief violence. The book contains no sexual content or graphic gore. The Mormon portrayal may … |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Crime and mystery | Content notes: violence (murder, attempted murder), drug use (opium), class prejudice, sexism, racism, and brief references to sexual scandal. No graphic content; violence is reported rather than shown. |
| The Moonstone | Crime and mystery | Content notes: suicide (Rosanna, ch23), murder (Godfrey, ch50), opium use (ch47 to 48), class prejudice against servants, religious satire (Miss Clack), brief violence. No sexual content. The book treats serious … |
| The Woman in White | Crime and mystery | Content notes: asylum confinement, psychological abuse, class-based exploitation, death (multiple), fire, implied sexual coercion, forged documents, fraud. Violence is suggested rather than graphic. Mental illness … |
| Pride and Prejudice | Romance | Content notes: Class prejudice and snobbery. Sexual impropriety (Lydia's elopement). Mercenary marriage. Parental neglect. No graphic content; all is implied or discussed rather than shown. |
| Persuasion | Romance | Content notes: class-based prejudice, financial insecurity, brief mention of naval warfare, discussion of women's limited marriage prospects, emotional manipulation by authority figures, minor injury (Louisa's fall … |
| Emma | Romance | Content notes: class anxiety and snobbery; illegitimacy treated as shameful (c55); governess servitude presented as inevitable hardship; mild cruelty (Emma's remark to Miss Bates); alcohol (Elton's drunken … |
| Jane Eyre | Romance | Content notes: childhood abuse and trauma, mental illness (Bertha's confinement), fire and burning, death (Helen Burns, Mrs. Reed), class discrimination, religious manipulation, implied sexual coercion (Rochester's … |
| Dracula | Gothic and horror | Content notes: graphic violence (blood transfusions, staking, decapitation), sexual assault (the Count's violation of Mina), death of a child (implied), mental illness (Renfield), and themes of corruption and bodily … |
| Frankenstein | Gothic and horror | Content notes: death of a child (William), execution of an innocent woman (Justine), multiple murders, grief and despair, isolation and madness, themes of abandonment and rejection. The creature's suffering may … |
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Gothic and horror | Content notes: murder, violence, implied sexual transgression, psychological horror, body horror (transformation), death by suicide. The book contains no graphic sexual content but carries homophobic subtext in its … |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Gothic and horror | Content notes: suicide (Sibyl Vane), murder (Basil Hallward), drug use (opium), implied sexual content, class exploitation, and death. The novel contains period attitudes toward women and class that may offend modern … |
| Wuthering Heights | Gothic and horror | Content notes: domestic violence, emotional abuse, child neglect and abuse, death in childbirth, grief-induced illness, obsessive behaviour, class prejudice, brief sexual coercion (Isabella's elopement), alcohol … |
| The Turn of the Screw | Gothic and horror | Content notes: ambiguous child endangerment, psychological manipulation, death of a child, possible sexual undertones involving minors, isolation and gaslighting, mental health crisis. |
| The Time Machine | Science fiction | Content notes: predation and cannibalism (Morlocks hunt Eloi), death of a child character (Weena, implied), class exploitation, evolutionary determinism reflecting period prejudices, absence of women in the frame … |
| The War of the Worlds | Science fiction | Content notes: graphic descriptions of death and burning, feeding on human bodies, psychological breakdown, violence including striking a man unconscious, and existential despair. No sexual content. Themes of … |
| The Invisible Man | Science fiction | Content notes: violence (murder, assault), animal cruelty (dog kicked, cat experimented on), psychological horror, and themes of isolation and madness. No sexual content. Suitable for mature teens and adults. |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Fantasy and children's | Content notes: frequent threats of execution and beheading (not carried out), violence toward a baby, a character's trauma, and a trial scene. The dream frame softens the darkness. No sexual content, profanity, or … |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Fantasy and children's | Content notes: mild peril (Witch's attacks, enslavement), character destruction (Scarecrow scattered, Tin Woodman broken), death of antagonist (Witch melted). No violence, gore, or sexual content. Suitable for … |
| The Secret Garden | Fantasy and children's | Content notes: death (cholera, parental death), child illness and disability, emotional abuse (parental neglect), hysteria and panic attacks, class hierarchy and servant treatment, colonial India setting with … |
| The Wind in the Willows | Fantasy and children's | Content notes: mild peril and danger (Wild Wood creatures, imprisonment, police chase), no violence beyond slapstick, no sexual content, no profanity. Some period attitudes toward nature and class may feel dated. … |
| Great Expectations | Literary | Content notes: violence (convict attack, sister's assault, Orlick's threat), class prejudice, criminal justice system, death (multiple characters), emotional abuse (Miss Havisham's manipulation of Estella), and … |
| A Christmas Carol | Literary | Content notes: references to poverty and child mortality (Tiny Tim's illness), death and graves, supernatural horror (Marley's ghost, the silent Spirit), and implied class exploitation. The book contains no graphic … |
| The Great Gatsby | Literary | Content notes: infidelity, domestic violence (Tom breaks Myrtle's nose), death by car accident, murder and suicide, bootlegging and organised crime, alcohol use, class-based cruelty. The novel contains period-typical … |
| Heart of Darkness | Literary | Content notes: depictions of colonialism and racism, violence, death, moral corruption, and the exploitation of African peoples. The book reflects late 19th century attitudes and uses Africa as a setting for European … |
| Kidnapped | Thriller and adventure | Content notes: violence (murder, siege, beatings), kidnapping and enslavement, death by drowning, period racism and slavery references, class oppression, brief alcohol use. No sexual content. Suitable for mature … |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Thriller and adventure | Content notes: poisoning and murder of multiple characters including children, imprisonment and torture, slavery, suicide, madness, betrayal, and themes of vengeance. Violence is not graphically described but is … |
| The Three Musketeers | Thriller and adventure | Content notes: violence (duels, assassination, execution), poisoning, seduction and sexual manipulation, misogyny in characterisation of Milady, class-based attitudes, brief references to branding as punishment. |
| The Riddle of the Sands | Thriller and adventure | Content notes: themes of invasion and war; a character's suicide (Dollmann drowns); mild violence (a prowler is chased off); romantic tension (Carruthers's attraction to Clara); patriotic ideology (duty to country). … |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Thriller and adventure | Content notes: political violence (French Terror, executions mentioned), blackmail, threat to life, pursuit and capture. No graphic violence, sexual content, or abuse. Themes of betrayal and redemption may affect … |
| The Lost World | Thriller and adventure | Content notes: violence including hunting and battle scenes, death of creatures and humans, period-typical racial attitudes, romantic rejection, and themes of revenge. No sexual content or graphic gore. |
| Captain Blood | Thriller and adventure | Content notes: slavery depicted graphically; flogging and torture; naval violence; execution threats; colonial-era attitudes toward race and gender; piracy romanticised; alcohol use. |
| Lady Audley's Secret | Crime and mystery | Content notes: murder, attempted murder, fire, death, madness, asylum confinement, infidelity, abandonment of a child, blackmail, and psychological manipulation. Violence is not graphic but consequences are serious. |
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Crime and mystery | Content notes: graphic violence (murder of two women), period language regarding animals and race, descriptions of blood and brutality. Not suitable for young children. |
| The Innocence of Father Brown | Crime and mystery | Content notes: multiple murders (some graphic), suicide, religious extremism, class prejudice, passive female characters, anti-clerical bias in some characters, implied sexual jealousy and infidelity. Violence is … |
| The Big Bow Mystery | Crime and mystery | Content notes: murder by throat cutting, execution by hanging, suicide by gunshot, bigamy, poverty, class prejudice, period attitudes to justice and evidence. |
| The Leavenworth Case | Crime and mystery | Content notes: murder by pistol, poisoning, death of a minor character (Hannah), emotional distress, class-based prejudice, period attitudes toward women and servants. |
| The Red Thumb Mark | Crime and mystery | Content notes: imprisonment, theft, attempted murder by poisoning, class anxiety, rigid gender roles, casual references to prison cruelty. No graphic violence or sexual content. Themes include justice, duty, and love. |
| The Amateur Cracksman | Crime and mystery | Content notes: burglary, theft, murder, police pursuit, chloroform use, implied violence. No graphic content. The tone is adventure rather than gritty. Class-based assumptions about crime may trouble modern readers. |
| The Secret Agent | Crime and mystery | Content notes: murder, suicide, bomb explosion with graphic description of remains, child death, domestic violence, anarchist violence, political conspiracy, psychological distress. |
| Sense and Sensibility | Romance | Content notes: seduction and abandonment of a young woman (Eliza Williams), emotional manipulation, financial coercion, illness and fever, class-based discrimination, emotional distress and grief. No graphic content; … |
| North and South | Romance | Content notes: death (consumption, suicide, industrial accident), class conflict and labour unrest, family separation, emotional manipulation by a parent, a lie told under pressure, brief violence (riot, … |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Romance | Content notes: death (Fanny Robin and child), implied sexual coercion (Troy's seduction), domestic violence (Troy's treatment of Bathsheba), mental illness (Boldwood's obsession and madness), murder, suicide … |
| The Enchanted April | Romance | Content notes: infidelity themes, emotional estrangement in marriage, class anxiety, brief references to poverty and social obligation. No violence, explicit content or trauma. Themes of escape and self-discovery. |
| The Sheik | Romance | Content notes: abduction, captivity, non-consensual sexual situations, violence, murder, assault, possessive and controlling behaviour, power imbalance in romantic relationship. The book normalises these elements as … |
| Daddy Long Legs | Romance | Content notes: orphanage system and institutional neglect, class discrimination, poverty, mild romantic content (kissing implied but not explicit), references to women's limited social roles. |
| Carmilla | Gothic and horror | Content notes: blood and bloodletting, predatory seduction, death of a young woman, implied sexual threat, religious imagery, grave desecration, violence against a corpse. |
| The Castle of Otranto | Gothic and horror | Content notes: murder, death of a child, supernatural violence, family conflict, coercion, and religious themes. No sexual content. Violence is present but not graphic. |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Gothic and horror | Content notes: obsessive love and stalking, murder, threats of violence, bomb plot, torture-chamber, deformity treated as justification for violence, death of minor characters. |
| The Great God Pan | Gothic and horror | Content notes: violation and non-consensual surgery on a young girl; suicide of multiple characters; implied sexual corruption; body horror; psychological trauma and madness. |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | Gothic and horror | Content notes: medical dismissal of women's concerns, mental health crisis, confinement, marital control, implied infantilisation of women, psychological breakdown. The story does not contain graphic violence but … |
| The Call of Cthulhu | Gothic and horror | Content notes: cosmic horror, death, madness, cult violence, racial stereotypes, existential dread, implied murder. |
| The Island of Doctor Moreau | Science fiction | Content notes: graphic vivisection and animal cruelty, psychological horror, body horror, alcohol abuse, suicide, and violence. The novel contains dated attitudes toward disability and non-European peoples. |
| Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Science fiction | Content notes: starvation and thirst depicted in detail; prehistoric violence (monster battle); volcanic eruption; separation and psychological distress; no sexual content; no graphic gore; themes of obsession and … |
| A Princess of Mars | Science fiction | Content notes: violence and warfare throughout, slavery and captivity, death of minor characters, brief romantic content, treatment of women as property in Martian society, casual cruelty presented without moral … |
| Herland | Science fiction | Content notes: depiction of attempted sexual assault (chapter 11), discussion of virgin birth and reproduction, critique of patriarchal society and traditional gender roles, themes of colonialism and cultural … |
| Flatland | Science fiction | Content notes: satirical treatment of women as dangerous and inferior; rigid class hierarchy and eugenics; suppression of dissent and imprisonment; violence during the colour revolution; existential despair about the … |
| Erewhon | Science fiction | Content notes: racism and racial stereotypes, particularly regarding Chowbok; human trafficking and exploitation in the final scheme; criminalisation of illness and disability; references to suicide; gender … |
| The Last Man | Science fiction | Content notes: death and plague throughout, suicide (Perdita, impostor-prophet), grief and despair, infidelity, social collapse, isolation, existential dread. The novel is philosophically dark but not graphically … |
| Through the Looking Glass | Fantasy and children's | Content notes: mild violence (shaking the Red Queen), food described but not consumed, some dated attitudes toward servants and class, philosophical themes about identity and reality that may confuse younger readers. |
| A Little Princess | Fantasy and children's | Content notes: poverty and hunger, child labour, emotional abuse by authority figures, parental death, class hierarchy. The novel does not contain violence, sexual content, or graphic suffering, though emotional … |
| The Jungle Book | Fantasy and children's | Content notes: animal violence (hunting, predation, cobra battles), child in danger, brief references to human death, colonial military themes. No sexual content or profanity. Suitable for most readers aged 8 and up. |
| Five Children and It | Fantasy and children's | Content notes: mild peril (children in danger from wishes, Red Indians, giants). Stereotyping of gypsies and Native Americans. Class attitudes unexamined. No violence, no sexual content, no profanity. Suitable for … |
| The Railway Children | Fantasy and children's | Content notes: political imprisonment and false accusation, family separation, poverty, a child's broken leg, a fire with a baby in danger, and a tunnel rescue. No violence, abuse, or graphic content. Themes of … |
| The Princess and the Goblin | Fantasy and children's | Content notes: mild peril from goblins and creatures, brief violence in battle scenes, some scary moments for young readers, themes of disbelief and isolation, class hierarchy accepted without critique. |
| Peter and Wendy | Fantasy and children's | Content notes: violence (pirates killed, children in danger, Hook's death), emotional themes (parental separation, inability to love, mortality), and dated depictions of indigenous peoples as 'redskins' and savages. … |
| The Worm Ouroboros | Fantasy and children's | Content notes: extensive battle violence, death of major characters, themes of war and conquest, brief sexual content (seduction scenes), dark sorcery. No graphic sexual content or modern sensitivities violated. |
| Anne of Green Gables | Fantasy and children's | Content notes: orphanhood and poverty, corporal punishment, brief references to alcohol (currant wine), death (Matthew), and threat of blindness (Marilla). No sexual content, violence, or abuse. Themes of shame … |
| Black Beauty | Fantasy and children's | Content notes: animal death (horses shot, starved, worked to death), animal cruelty (whipping, check-reins, neglect), human death (young rider, Reuben Smith), poverty, alcoholism, child labour. The novel does not shy … |
| Middlemarch | Literary | Content notes: marriage as constraint on women, financial desperation, infidelity (emotional), class prejudice, medical malpractice (implied), blackmail, moral corruption, death from illness, emotional abuse in … |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Literary | Content notes: sexual assault (chapter 11), infant death (chapter 14), execution (chapter 59), class prejudice, victim-blaming, fatalism, suicide ideation. Themes of shame and sexual coercion throughout. |
| Mrs Dalloway | Literary | Content notes: suicide, mental illness, war trauma, class anxiety, homophobic attitudes (period-typical), medical abuse, death. |
| To the Lighthouse | Literary | Content notes: death (including childbirth death and war death), grief, emotional manipulation, class hierarchy, misogyny (shown but not critiqued), and existential anxiety. No graphic violence, sexual content, or … |
| Anna Karenina | Literary | Content notes: infidelity, suicide, death (including childbirth complications), jealousy, emotional abuse, class hierarchy, anti-Semitic remarks, and the treatment of women as property. The novel contains no graphic … |
| Crime and Punishment | Literary | Content notes: murder, poverty, prostitution, mental illness, suicide, sexual predation, alcohol abuse, nihilism. The book does not glorify these but presents them as tragic consequences of social and moral failure. … |
| Madame Bovary | Literary | Content notes: suicide by poisoning (chapter 32), adultery, sexual content (affairs described), death in childbirth (mentioned), financial exploitation, emotional abuse, depression and mental illness, class-based … |
| The Age of Innocence | Literary | Content notes: Infidelity, emotional manipulation, class anxiety, gender inequality, financial ruin, divorce scandal. No graphic violence or sexual content. Themes of emotional entrapment and resignation may affect … |
| Silas Marner | Literary | Content notes: opium addiction, child abandonment, illegitimacy, death by exposure, false accusation, betrayal, and moral weakness. No graphic violence or sexual content. The treatment of addiction and poverty is … |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Literary | Content notes: repeated use of racial slur; slavery and its violence; child abuse by parent; death and violence (feud, murder); deception and fraud; alcohol use; some sexual innuendo in con schemes. |
| Hamlet | Plays | Content notes: suicide (Ophelia), murder (multiple), poison, madness, sexual references, violence, and death of nearly all main characters. Themes of betrayal, corruption, and moral decay throughout. |
| Macbeth | Plays | Content notes: murder of a king, murder of a child and woman, suicide (implied), violence and bloodshed, psychological torment and madness, witchcraft and supernatural forces, themes of ambition and moral corruption. |
| Romeo and Juliet | Plays | Content notes: suicide, violence, death, family conflict, sexual references (bawdy humour), arranged marriage, and a thirteen-year-old protagonist in a sexual relationship. The play contains references to poison and … |
| Othello | Plays | Content notes: murder, racism, misogyny, emotional abuse, sexual jealousy, suicide, stabbing. The play contains slurs and stereotypes. Othello's violence toward Desdemona is graphic. Iago's manipulation is … |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Plays | Content notes: parental control and forced marriage (c1), magical coercion of love (c4 to 7), physical transformation (c5), mild violence (lovers threaten to fight, c6), class-based comedy (craftsmen portrayed as comic … |
| Twelfth Night | Plays | Content notes: Mockery and humiliation of a character. Imprisonment and psychological torment. Implied violence in duels. Themes of deception and betrayal. Cross-dressing and gender confusion. Alcohol and drunkenness. |
| Doctor Faustus | Plays | Content notes: depictions of damnation and hell, religious imagery and mockery of Catholic ritual, violence (transformation of characters into animals), sexual temptation (Helen), despair and suicide ideation in the … |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Plays | No content warnings needed. The play contains mild social satire and romantic comedy. No violence, explicit content or harmful stereotypes beyond period-typical class attitudes. |
| A Doll's House | Plays | Content notes: abandonment of children, emotional abuse, suicidal ideation, financial crime, illness and death. |
| Hedda Gabler | Plays | Content notes: suicide, psychological manipulation, blackmail, references to infidelity and sexual scandal, death offstage. Themes of female powerlessness and desperation. |
| Pygmalion | Plays | Content notes: class-based language and attitudes, references to poverty and exploitation, dismissive treatment of a young woman by an older man, crude language used for comic effect, financial coercion. |
| The School for Scandal | Plays | Content notes: Seduction and infidelity (c11), mockery of women's appearance and behaviour, class stereotyping of servants, assumption that women's independence is a fault, witty cruelty disguised as entertainment. |
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