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A list of literature (stories, poems, novels, etc.) that are in the [[Public Domain]]. Includes any story first published before 1923.
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* [[Classic Literature]]
* [[Nineteenth Century Literature]]
As of January 2012 it became possible in the United States for [http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/scotus-re-copyright-decision/ works to be ''taken back out of the public domain'']. Do not be surprised if some of these works stop being public domain should a corporation find sufficient <s>revenue</s> reason for doing so.
== Numbers, A-B-C ==
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* ''[[A Dog of Flanders]]''▼
* ''[[A Doll's House]]''▼
* ''[[A Romance of Two Worlds]]''▼
* ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]''▼
* ''[[Agnes Grey]]''
* ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]''
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* ''[[Arabian Nights (Literature)|Arabian Nights]]
* ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]''
* ''[[Ben-Hur]]''
* ''[[Beowulf]]''
* ''[[The Bible]]'': While the actual text is in the public domain and many versions of the Bible are free of copyright, certain versions of it are copyrighted in some jurisdictions (e.g., the King James Bible is under perpetual copyright in the United Kingdom).▼
* ''[[Billy Budd (novel)|Billy Budd]]''
* ''[[Black Beauty]]''
* ''[[Bleak House]]''
* ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]''▼
* ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''▼
* ''[[Carmilla]]''
* ''[[Candide]]''
* ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''
* ''[[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]''
* ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo (novel)|The Count of Monte Cristo]]''▼
* ''[[Cousin Bette]]''
* ''[[Crime and Punishment]]''
== D-E-F ==
* ''[[Daisy Miller]]'' (published in book form in 1879)
* ''[[Daniel Deronda]]'' (1876)
* ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]'' (published in book form in 1850)
* ''[[Dead Souls]]'' (1842)
* "[[Diary of a Madman]]" (the short story was published in 1835)
* ''[[The Diary of Samuel Pepys]]'' (1 January 1660 to 31 May 1669)
* ''[[The Divine Comedy]]''▼
* ''[[The Doctor in Spite of Himself]]'' (1666)
▲* ''[[A Dog of Flanders]]''
▲* ''[[A Doll's House]]''
* ''[[Dombey and Son]]'' (1848 in book form)
* ''[[Don Quixote]]'' (published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615)
* ''[[Dracula (novel)|Dracula]]'' (1897)
* ''[[Dream of the Red Chamber]]'' (1791-92)
* ''[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'' (1886)
* ''[[Dubliners]]'' (1914)
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* ''[[El Filibusterismo]]'' (1891)
* ''[[Emma]]'' (1815)
* ''[[Evelina]]'' (1778)
* [[Father Brown]]--the first two anthologies in an series of five: ''The Innocence of Father Brown'' (1911) and ''The Wisdom of Father Brown'' (1914). The next three collections were published in 1926, 1927 and 1935 and so are still under copyright in the U.S. "The Donnington Affair" (1914), which is usually omitted from compliations, is likewise in the public domain.▼
* ''[[Fanny Hill]]'' (1748)
* ''[[The Faerie Queene]]''▼
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* [[Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences]] (1895 essay)
* ''[[Flatland]]'' (1884)
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* ''[[Heart of Darkness]]''
* ''[[Heidi]]
* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (novel)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''▼
* ''[[The Idiot]]''▼
* ''[[The Iliad]]''▼
* ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]''▼
* ''[[In Search of the Castaways]]''
* ''[[Ivanhoe]]''
== J-K-L ==
* ''[[Jane Eyre]]''
* The first 5 books of ''[[John Carter of Mars]]''
* ''[[Journey to
* ''[[Journey to the West]]'' (1590s)
* ''[[Jude the Obscure]]''
* ''[[Kilmeny of the Orchard]]''
* ''[[Kim]]''
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* ''[[Les Misérables (novel)|Les Miserables]]
* ''[[Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow]]''
* ''[[Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil]]'' (1651)
* ''[[Little Dorrit]]''
* ''[[Little Lord Fauntleroy]]
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== M-N-O ==
* ''[[Madame Bovary]]'' (1856)
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* ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]'' (published in book format in 1839)
* ''[[Our Mutual Friend]]''▼
* ''[[Noli Me Tangere]]'' (1887)
* ''[[North and South]]'' (1855)
* ''[[Northanger Abbey]]'' (1817)
* ''[[Notes From Underground]]'' (1864)
* ''[[Oblomov]]'' (1859)
* ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]''▼
* ''[[Oera Linda Book]]'' (first came to light in 1867--no one knows how old the manuscript is or is not)
* ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' (published in book form in 1838)
▲* ''[[Our Mutual Friend]]'' (published in book form in 1865)
== P-Q-R ==
* ''[[Paradise Lost]]'' (1667)
* ''[[Peter Pan]]'' (1904 for the play; 1911 for the novel): However, it's ''not'' out of copyright in the U.K. Furthermore, Great Ormond Street Hospital claims to own [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_Wendy#Copyright_status the copyright to all works featuring Peter Pan until 2023--including the U.S. copyright].
* ''[[Persuasion]]'' (1818)
* ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]''▼
* ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]''▼
* ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress]]'' (1678)
* ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813)
* ''[[Quo Vadis]]'' (1895)
* ''[[Raffles]]'':
** ''The Amateur Cracksman'' (short story collection--1899)
** ''The Black Mask'' (short story collection--1901)
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** ''Mr. Justice Raffles'' (novel--1909)
* ''[[Ramona]]'' (1884)
* ''[[The Republic (literature)|The Republic]]''
* ''[[The Revenger's Tragedy]] (1606)
* ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' (1719)
▲* ''[[A Romance of Two Worlds]]''
* ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' (fourteenth century)
* ''[[Romola]]'' (1862-63)
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* ''[[Salammbo]]'' (1862)
* ''[[Scaramouche]]'' (1921)
* ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]''▼
* ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel]]''▼
* ''[[The School for Scandal]]'' (1777)
* ''[[Tommy and Tuppence|The Secret Adversary]]▼
* ''[[Sense and Sensibility (novel)|Sense and Sensibility]]'' (1811)
* ''[[Sentimental Education]]'' (1869)
* All the works of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]
* ''[[She]]'' (1887)
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' (first appeared in print in 1887 with ''A Study in Scarlet''): Whether Conan Doyle's Sherlock stories are out of copyright depends on your location. Conan Doyle's stories have been in public domain in Canada since 1980; in the U.K., 2000. In the United States, however, ten stories in ''The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes'' which were published between 1923 and 1927, inclusive,
* ''[[Siddhartha]]'' (1922)
* ''[[Sienkiewicz Trilogy]]'' (written between 1884 and 1888)
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* ''[[Silly Novels by Lady Novelists]]'' (1856)
* ''[[Snow White]]'' (the first edition containing this story was published in 1812; the second and much revised edition, which is closer to to what we're now familiar with, came out in 1854)
* ''[[The Sorrows of Young Werther]]'' (1774)
* ''[[Struwwelpeter]]'' (1845)
* ''[[Swan Lake]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There]]''▼
▲* ''[[The Art of War]]''
▲* ''[[The Bible]]'': While the actual text is in the public domain and many versions of the Bible are free of copyright, certain versions of it are copyrighted in some jurisdictions (e.g., the King James Bible is under perpetual copyright in the United Kingdom).
▲* ''[[The Brothers Karamazov]]''
▲* ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''
▲* ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo (novel)|The Count of Monte Cristo]]''
▲* ''[[The Divine Comedy]]''
▲* ''[[The Faerie Queene]]''
▲* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (novel)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''
▲* ''[[The Idiot]]''
▲* ''[[The Iliad]]''
▲* ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]''
▲* ''[[The Jungle Book]]''
* ''[[The Mysterious Affair at Styles]]''▼
▲* ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]''
▲* ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]''
▲* ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]''
▲* ''[[The Prince]]''
▲* ''[[The Republic]]''
▲* ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]''
▲* ''[[The Scarlet Pimpernel]]''
▲* ''[[Tommy and Tuppence|The Secret Adversary]]
* ''[[The Time Machine]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]''▼
▲* ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There]]''
* ''[[Treasure Island]]''
* ''[[Tristram Shandy]]'' (1760-67)
* ''[[Ulysses]]''
* ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]''
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== V-W-X ==
* ''[[War and Peace]]''
* ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]''
* ''[[Water Margin]]'' (mid-fourteenth century)
* ''[[Wuthering Heights (novel)| Wuthering Heights]]''
== Y-Z ==
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