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60,919 public-domain works

'Twixt Land & Sea: Tales

Joseph Conrad · short story

'Up the Country': Letters Written to Her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India

Emily Eden · travel

Joseph Rhode Grismer · novel

'way down in Lonesome Cove

Charles Egbert Craddock · novel

"'Tis Sixty Years Since"

Charles Francis Adams · ideas

Frederick Franklin Schrader · history

Vasilïĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin · history

John Oxenham · novel

Everett Uberto Crosby · history

"A Cathcart or a Riggs?"

Roy Norton · short story

"A Daily Rate."

Grace Livingston Hill · novel

"A Modern Hercules," the Tale of a Sculptress

Melvin G. Winstock · novel

"A Most Unholy Trade," Being Letters on the Drama by Henry James

Henry James · play

"A Soldier Of The Empire"

Thomas Nelson Page · short story

"Abe" Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories

R. D. Wordsworth · biography

"About My Father's Business": Work Amidst the Sick, the Sad, and the Sorrowing

Thomas Archer · ideas

"All's not Gold that Glitters;" or, The Young Californian

Alice B. Haven · novel

"All's Well"; or, Alice's Victory

Emily Sarah Holt · novel

"America for Americans!"

John Philip Newman · ideas

The story in one page

"And That's How It Was, Officer"

Uncle Peter cleans up the local mob by turning gangsters into dust, confusing everyone.

Ralph Sholto · novel

"And they thought we wouldn't fight"

Floyd Phillips Gibbons · history

"Around the Circle": One Thousand Miles Through the Rocky Mountains

Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company · travel

"As Gold in the Furnace" : A College Story

J. E. Copus · novel

"Ask Mamma"; or, The Richest Commoner In England

Robert Smith Surtees · novel

"Back from hell"

Samuel Cranston Benson · biography

"Barbarous Soviet Russia"

Isaac McBride · travel

"Bear ye one another's burdens." A Plain Sermon on the Lancashire Distress

James Galloway Cowan · ideas

"Beautiful Thoughts"

Henry Drummond · ideas

"Bethink Yourselves!"

Leo graf Tolstoy · ideas

"Billy" Sunday, the Man and His Message

William T. Ellis · biography

"Bobbie", a Story of the Confederacy

Kate Langley Bosher · novel

"Bones": Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country

Edgar Wallace · short story

"Boots and Saddles"; Or, Life in Dakota with General Custer

Elizabeth Bacon Custer · biography

"Born of the Spirit;" or, Gems from the Book of Life

Zenas Osborne · biography

"Boy Wanted": A Book of Cheerful Counsel

Nixon Waterman · manual

"Boy" the Wandering Dog: Adventures of a Fox-Terrier

Marshall Saunders · novel

"Bring Me His Ears"

Clarence Edward Mulford · novel

"Broke," The Man Without the Dime

Edwin A. Brown · history

Phyllis Bottome · novel

"Brother Bosch", an Airman's Escape from Germany

Gerald Featherstone Knight · biography

"Browne's Folly"

Nathaniel Hawthorne · short story

"Buffalo Bill" from Prairie to Palace: An Authentic History of the Wild West

John M. -1917 Burke · biography

The story in one page

"Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks

A spoiled rich boy falls overboard and joins a Gloucester fishing crew. Professional manners ensue.

Rudyard Kipling · novel

"Carrots:" Just a Little Boy

Mrs. Molesworth · novel

"Chicago to the Sea." Eastern Excursionist

William C. Gage · travel

"Chinkie's Flat"

Louis Becke · novel

"Clear the Track!" A Story of To-day

E. Werner · novel

"Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment

Samuel R. Watkins · biography