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60,919 public-domain works

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"Colony,"--or "Free State"? "Dependence,"--or "Just Connection"? "Empire,"--or "Union"?
Alpheus Henry Snow · ideas
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"Contemptible", by "Casualty"
novel
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"Crazy Daisy" Boutique, Vol. No. 5
Scovill Manufacturing Company · manual
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"Crumps", The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went
Louis Keene · biography
The story in one page
"De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries
A Roman general conquers Gaul, crosses the Rubicon, and defeats his rivals while writing himself into history in the third person.
Julius Caesar · history
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"Der Tag"; or, The Tragic Man
J. M. Barrie · play
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"Downright Fighting": The Story of Cowpens
Thomas J. Fleming · history
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"England and Yesterday": A Book of Short Poems
Louise Imogen Guiney · poetry
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"Erb"
W. Pett Ridge · novel
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"Evacuation Day", 1783, Its Many Stirring Events
James Riker · history
The story in one page
"Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays
Before Netflix, medieval towns turned the Bible into local theater for the public to enjoy.
Ernest Rhys · collection
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"Excelsior"
Bret Harte · poetry
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"Farewell"
William Henry Stacpoole · novel
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"Father Clark," or The Pioneer Preacher
John Mason Peck · biography
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"Fin Tireur"
Robert Hichens · short story
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"Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging in the Pacific
Louis Becke · short story
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"Forward, March": A Tale of the Spanish-American War
Kirk Munroe · novel
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"Gamle Norge": Rambles and Scrambles in Norway
R. T. Pritchett · travel
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"Gentlemen prefer blondes"
Anita Loos · novel
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"George Washington's" Last Duel
Thomas Nelson Page · novel
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"God Wills It!" A Tale of the First Crusade.
William Stearns Davis · novel
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"Gombo Zhèbes." Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs
Lafcadio Hearn · reference
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"Good-Morning, Rosamond!"
Constance Lindsay Skinner · novel
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"Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects)
Mary Lady Ross · ideas
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"Great-Heart": The Life Story of Theodore Roosevelt
Daniel Henderson · biography
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"Green Balls" : The Adventures of a Night-Bomber
Paul Bewsher · biography
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"Hashknife"—philanthropist
W. C. Tuttle · novel
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"He was buried." A Sermon for Easter Even
Thomas Macgill · ideas
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"Hear Ye the Rod, and Who Hath Appointed It"
James Galloway Cowan · ideas
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"Hey Ma, Where's Willie?"
I. M. Bukstein · short story
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"Holding the line"
Harold Baldwin · biography
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"Honest Abe": A Study in Integrity Based on the Early Life of Abraham Lincoln
Alonzo Rothschild · biography
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"Horse Sense" in Verses Tense
Walt Mason · poetry
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"How Can I Help to Abolish Slavery?" or, Counsels to the Newly Converted
Maria Weston Chapman · ideas
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"I Believe" and other essays
Guy Thorne · ideas
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"I Conquered"
Harold Titus · novel
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"I Say No"
Wilkie Collins · novel
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"I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919
Cyrus Leroy Baldridge · poetry
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"I'll Leave It To You": A Light Comedy In Three Acts
Noël Coward · play
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"I'm Greatly Concerned About Your Soul."
M. A. C. · ideas
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"If Youth but Knew!"
Agnes Castle · novel
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"Imperialism" and "The Tracks of Our Forefathers"
Charles Francis Adams · ideas
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"Impromptu"; or, How to Think on Your Feet
Grenville Kleiser · manual
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"In Sargasso." Missing, a romance
Julius Chambers · novel
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"In the twinkling of an eye"
Sydney Watson · novel
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"It's all real true"
Eglanton Thorne · novel
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"Jesus Says So"
biography
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"Laramie;" Or, The Queen of Bedlam. A Story of the Sioux War of 1876
Charles King · novel