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Exploration Survival Adventure Tales
5,969 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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A Son of the Gods, and A Horseman in the Sky — A Reader’s Guide
Exploration Survival Adventure Tales
9,186 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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Sketches New and Old, Part 6. — Background and Themes
Psychological Domestic Love Stories
11,666 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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VREUR Public Domain Literature Library – Timeless Classics and Historical Texts
The VREUR Public Domain Literature Library organizes 94 public-domain fiction works into four categories that map to different reading interests: adventure and survival tales, fantasy and juvenile worlds, utopian and speculative futures, and psychological or domestic fiction. Each record cites Project Gutenberg as its digital source and includes editorial notes that point to structural or thematic features worth observing. The categories are not rigid; a work may appear in more than one. To enter the collection, choose a category that matches your mood, or scan the full list. The notes are designed to support careful reading, whether you plan to read a work in full or sample chapters.
94 public-domain works61 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
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Exploration Survival Adventure Tales
Stories of childhood, exploration, resilience and imaginative adventure represented across the current public-domain collection.
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Fantasy Juvenile Worlds
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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Utopias Future Societies Other Worlds
Works exploring technology, imagined futures, discovery and speculative changes in society and everyday life.
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Psychological Domestic Love Stories
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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Senator North — Text and Context
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Miss Gibbie Gault — Inside the C...
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Stories by English Authors: The ...
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The One Woman: A Story of Modern...
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Spring Days — Text and Context
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In the Closed Room — A Closer Re...
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The Valley of Vision : A Book of...
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- The Valley of Vision : A Book of... Authors: Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933 In Utopias...
- Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's... Authors: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Char... In Psychol...
- Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's... Authors: Adams, F. Colburn (Franci... In Fantasy...
- Thomas Wingfold, Curate V2 — Tex... Authors: MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 In Explora...
- Aladdin O'Brien — Text and Context Authors: Morris, Gouverneur, 1876-... In Psychol...
