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253 public-domain texts across 20 genres. Planned additions are tracked in CORPUS_WISHLIST.md.

Philosophy (39)

Title Author
A Pickle for the Knowing Ones Timothy Dexter
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wollstonecraft
Apology Plato
Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Common Sense Thomas Paine
Critique of Pure Reason Kant
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences René Descartes
Ecce Homo Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Essays — First and Second Series Emerson
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals Kant
Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 3 of 3
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes
Meditations Marcus Aurelius
Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle
On Liberty Mill
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Thoreau
Phaedo Plato
Plutarch's Morals Plutarch
Poetics Aristotle
Politics Aristotle
Second Treatise of Government John Locke
The Art of War Sun Tzu
The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The City of God, Volume I Augustine of Hippo
The Crown of Wild Olive John Ruskin
The Enchiridion Epictetus
The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Vatsyayana
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Diogenes Laertius
The origin and development of the moral ideas Edward Westermarck
The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli
The Problems of Philosophy Russell
The Republic Plato
The Social Contract Rousseau
The Symposium Plato
The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
Thus Spake Zarathustra Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Utilitarianism Mill

English Literature (38)

Title Author
A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas Charles Dickens
A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift
A Room with a View Forster
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Alices Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
Bleak House Dickens
Cranford Gaskell
David Copperfield Dickens
Dracula Bram Stoker
Emma Jane Austen
Far from the Madding Crowd Hardy
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Grimms Fairy Tales Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
Gullivers Travels Jonathan Swift
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Howards End E. M. Forster
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
Kim Kipling
Middlemarch George Eliot
North and South Gaskell
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Hardy
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
The Jungle Book Kipling
The Man Who Was Thursday Chesterton
The Mayor of Casterbridge Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 Henry James
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
The Time Machine H. G. Wells
The Turn of the Screw Henry James
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
Vanity Fair Thackeray
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë

Ancient & Classical (23)

Title Author
A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion Epictetus
Histories Herodotus
History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides
Medea of Euripides Euripides
Metamorphoses Ovid
Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Oedipus King of Thebes Sophocles
On the Nature of Things Lucretius
Parallel Lives Plutarch
The Aeneid Virgil
The Birds Aristophanes
The Clouds Aristophanes
The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 Aristophanes
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 Aristophanes
The Frogs Aristophanes
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthes Epictetus
The House of Atreus; Being the Agamemnon, the Libation bearers, and the Furies Aeschylus
The Iliad Homer
The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Marcus Aurelius
The Odyssey Homer
The Teaching of Epictetus Epictetus
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Marcus Aurelius

American Literature (23)

Title Author
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose Clark Ashton Smith
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
Moby Dick Herman Melville
My Antonia Cather
O Pioneers! Cather
Tales of Mystery and Imagination Poe
The Age of Innocence Wharton
The Awakening Chopin
The Call of the Wild Jack London
The House of Mirth Wharton
The Jungle Sinclair
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Irving
The Raven and Other Poems Poe
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sea-Wolf London
The Souls of Black Folk Du Bois
The Star-Treader, and other poems Clark Ashton Smith
The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Uncle Toms Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Walden Henry David Thoreau
White Fang London

Russian Literature (12)

Title Author
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dead Souls Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Fathers and Sons Turgenev
Notes from Underground Dostoevsky
Oblomov Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
On the Eve Turgenev
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The possessed : or, The devils Fyodor Dostoyevsky
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy

French Literature (12)

Title Author
Around the World in Eighty Days Verne
Candide Voltaire
From the Earth to the Moon Verne
Germinal Zola
Journey to the Center of the Earth Verne
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
Nana Zola
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Hugo
The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne

Biography (12)

Title Author
Autobiography John Stuart Mill
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini
Confessions — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions — Saint Augustine Saint Augustine
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl — Harriet Jacobs Harriet Jacobs
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods — Harry Houdini Harry Houdini
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant — Volume 1 Ulysses S. Grant
The Education of Henry Adams Henry Adams
The Life of Samuel Johnson — James Boswell James Boswell
Up From Slavery — Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington

Drama (10)

Title Author
A Doll's House — Henrik Ibsen Henrik Ibsen
Doctor Faustus — Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe
Hedda Gabler — Henrik Ibsen Henrik Ibsen
Major Barbara Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw
Tamburlaine the Great — Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe
The Duchess of Malfi — John Webster John Webster
The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde
The Master Builder Henrik Ibsen
The sea-gull Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Science Fiction (16)

Title Author
A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future John Jacob Astor
A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the Earth's Core Edgar Rice Burroughs
Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. John Uri Lloyd
Flatland Edwin Abbott Abbott
Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Pellucidar Burroughs
Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery Adam Seaborn
The Coming Race Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
The First Men in the Moon H. G. Wells
The Food of the Gods Wells
The Gods of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Invisible Man H. G. Wells
The island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells
The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle
The warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs

Horror (16)

Title Author
At the Mountains of Madness H. P. Lovecraft
Carmilla Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary M. R. James
Tales of Terror and Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle
The Call of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward H. P. Lovecraft
The Colour Out of Space H. P. Lovecraft
The Dunwich Horror H. P. Lovecraft
The Great God Pan Arthur Machen
The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson
The King in Yellow Robert W. Chambers
The Monk: A Romance M. G. Lewis
The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Ward Radcliffe
The Shadow over Innsmouth H. P. Lovecraft
The Shunned House H. P. Lovecraft
The Willows Algernon Blackwood

Travel (6)

Title Author
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Isabella L. Bird
The Innocents Abroad — Mark Twain Mark Twain
The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo and Rusticiano da Pisa
Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797 Mungo Park
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life — Herman Melville Herman Melville

Natural History (7)

Title Author
Autobiography of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin
Man's Place in Nature — Thomas H. Huxley Thomas H. Huxley
On the Origin of Species — Charles Darwin Charles Darwin
The Chemical History of a Candle — Michael Faraday Michael Faraday
The Descent of Man — Charles Darwin Charles Darwin
The Malay Archipelago — Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace
The Voyage of the Beagle — Charles Darwin Charles Darwin

Sacred Texts (7)

Title Author
Dhammapada F. Max Müller translation
Tao Te Ching James Legge translation
The Analects of Confucius James Legge translation
The Bhagavad Gita Edwin Arnold verse translation
The Bible King James Version
The Quran Rodwell translation
The Upanishads Max Müller translation

Letters (6)

Title Author
Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends John Keats
Letters of Pliny the Younger Pliny the Younger
Letters on England Voltaire
Letters to His Son — Lord Chesterfield Lord Chesterfield
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron

World Literature (4)

Title Author
Gitanjali Tagore
One Thousand and One Nights Lane translation
The Divine Comedy Cary
The Divine Comedy Longfellow

German Literature (5)

Title Author
Faust Part I Goethe
Faust: Der Tragödie zweiter Teil Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Siddhartha Hesse
The Metamorphosis Kafka
The Trial Kafka

Diaries (4)

Title Author
The Diary of John Evelyn — Volume 1 John Evelyn
The Diary of John Evelyn — Volume 2 John Evelyn
The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson James Boswell

Technical Reference - Internet Archive (8)

Title Author
Audels Electric Library Vol 1 Frank D. Graham and Theo Audel & Company
Audels Electric Library Vol 10 Frank D. Graham and Theo Audel & Company
Audels Electric Library Vol 2 Frank D. Graham and Theo Audel & Company
Audels Electric Library Vol 3 Frank D. Graham and Theo Audel & Company
Audels Electric Library Vol 4 Frank D. Graham and Theo Audel & Company
Audels Electric Library Vol 7 Frank D. Graham and Theo Audel & Company
Audels Electric Library Vol 8 Frank D. Graham and Theo Audel & Company
Audels Electric Library Vol 9 Frank D. Graham and Theo Audel & Company

Spanish Literature (1)

Title Author
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Shakespeare (4)

Title Author
A Midsummer Nights Dream William Shakespeare
Hamlet William Shakespeare
Macbeth William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare