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Adventure Picaresque Fiction
3,225 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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Fantasy Juvenile Worlds
4,090 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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Discover Public Domain Literature: Verse, History, and Adventures
This catalogue currently contains 99 books by 110 authors across 4 categories.
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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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Fantasy Juvenile Worlds
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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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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