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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 offers 99 freely accessible books from 86 authors. The collection spans four curated categories: exploration and survival tales, childhood classics with sources and perspectives, world events in context, and lives, customs, and historical worlds. All texts are in the public domain and available for reading.
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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
In Fantasy...
Jeanne of the Marshes — Edition ...
In Science...
Omoo: Adventures in the South Se...
In Explora...
Simon the Jester — Themes and Co...
In Fantasy...
The Recollections of Geoffrey Ha...
In Histori...
The Man Who Kept His Money in a ...
In Science...
Coniston — Complete — Story, Set...
In Histori...
Coniston — Volume 04 — Themes an...
In Histori...
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