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Adventure Picaresque Fiction
Stories of childhood, exploration, resilience and imaginative adventure represented across the current public-domain collection.
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AUACY Public Domain Literature Library: Poetry, Drama, History & More
The AUACY Public Domain Literature Library offers 90 free classic books by 128 authors, with new additions arriving regularly. Readers can explore four curated categories: poetry, drama and performance; battles and military history; nations, peoples and the past; and sailors, pirates and oceans. All texts are in the public domain and available for free reading.
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Fantasy Juvenile Worlds
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Science Fiction Utopias
Works exploring technology, imagined futures, discovery and speculative changes in society and everyday life.
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Historical Psychological Social Fiction
Texts connected with historical lives, social customs, institutions and the worlds in which people lived.
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Historical Psychological Social Fiction
Cosmos — A Reader’s Guide
Authored by Authors: McGaffey, Ernest, 1861-, 'Cosmos — A Reader’s Guide' stands as a notable and significant work within the Historical Psychological Social Fiction category. Ernest McGaffey's 1903 poem 'Cosmos' interrogates religious dogma, scientific progress, and human nature through ten cantos of rhymed quatrains, rejecting both blind faith and pure materialism in favor of a humanist ethic centered on love and brotherhood. Explore the nuanced perspectives and historical context offered in this document.
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Lancashire Songs — A Reader’s Guide
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The Day of Doom; Or, a Poetical ...
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The Curse of Kehama, Volume 1 (o...
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Poetical Works of Robert Bridges...
In Histori...
Iberia Won; A poem descriptive o...
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Richard Coeur de Lion and Blonde...
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How Rifleman Brown Came to Valha...
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Absurd Ditties — Context and Dis...
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