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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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NMEER Public Domain Literature Library: Adventure, Classics, History & More
The NMEER Public Domain Literature Library presents 99 public-domain works from Project Gutenberg, selected for their literary and historical interest. The catalogue is organized into four overlapping categories—Exploration Survival Adventure Tales, Fantasy Juvenile Worlds, Science Fiction Utopias, and Historical Psychological Social Fiction—each grouping books by shared subject, setting, or narrative mode. To help you enter the collection, we offer three practical reading paths: the Survival Path (starting with Jack London's The Mutiny of the Elsinore), the Social Observation Path (beginning with Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage), and the Humor Path (starting with Lucretia P. Hale's The Peterkin Papers). These paths cross categories, reflecting the way many works span multiple themes.
99 public-domain works86 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
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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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Exploration Survival Adventure Tales
The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic...
Authored by Authors: Crawford, F. Marion (Fran..., 'The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic...' stands as a notable and significant work within the Exploration Survival Adventure Tales category. Crawford's ornate prose and shifting narrative pace create a Gothic atmosphere in Prague, where a mysterious woman, Unorna, exercises psychological power over two men, the Wanderer and Israel Kafka, through dialogue and supernatural suggestion. Discover the unique thematic elements that make this specific work highly regarded.
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Helen's Babies — Reading Notes
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Jeanne of the Marshes — Edition ...
In Science...
Omoo: Adventures in the South Se...
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Simon the Jester — Themes and Co...
In Fantasy...
The Recollections of Geoffrey Ha...
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The Man Who Kept His Money in a ...
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Coniston — Complete — Story, Set...
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Coniston — Volume 04 — Themes an...
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Reading Paths
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Begin with Exploration Survival Adventure TalesOpen a focused route to works connected with Exploration Survival Adventure Tales.Explore Fantasy Juvenile WorldsCompare authors, source types and recurring questions within Fantasy Juvenile Worlds.Read through Science Fiction UtopiasMove from introductory records to related works in Science Fiction Utopias.Browse Historical Psychological Social FictionUse this theme as a starting point for nearby catalogue records in Historical Psychological Social Fiction.
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This digital library contains 99 historical editions and 86 authors across four categories. The records are maintained for scholarly reference.
