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== Numbers, A-B-C == |
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* ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' |
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* ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'' |
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* ''[[Agnes Grey]]'' |
* ''[[Agnes Grey]]'' |
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* ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' |
* ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' |
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* ''[[Arabian Nights (Literature)|Arabian Nights]] |
* ''[[Arabian Nights (Literature)|Arabian Nights]] |
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* ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'' |
* ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'' |
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* ''[[Ben-Hur]]'' |
* ''[[Ben-Hur]]'' |
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* ''[[Beowulf]]'' |
* ''[[Beowulf]]'' |
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* ''[[Billy Budd (novel)|Billy Budd]]'' |
* ''[[Billy Budd (novel)|Billy Budd]]'' |
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* ''[[Black Beauty]]'' |
* ''[[Black Beauty]]'' |
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* ''[[Bleak House]]'' |
* ''[[Bleak House]]'' |
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* ''[[Carmilla]]'' |
* ''[[Carmilla]]'' |
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* ''[[Candide]]'' |
* ''[[Candide]]'' |
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* ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' |
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* ''[[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]'' |
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* ''[[Cousin Bette]]'' |
* ''[[Cousin Bette]]'' |
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* ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'' |
* ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'' |
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== D-E-F == |
== D-E-F == |
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* ''[[Dead Souls]]'' (1842) |
* ''[[Dead Souls]]'' (1842) |
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* "[[Diary of a Madman]]" (the short story was published in 1835) |
* "[[Diary of a Madman]]" (the short story was published in 1835) |
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* ''[[Dombey and Son]]'' (1848 in book form) |
* ''[[Dombey and Son]]'' (1848 in book form) |
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* ''[[Don Quixote]]'' (published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615) |
* ''[[Don Quixote]]'' (published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615) |
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* ''[[Evelina]]'' (1778) |
* ''[[Evelina]]'' (1778) |
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* ''[[Fanny Hill]]'' (1748) |
* ''[[Fanny Hill]]'' (1748) |
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* [[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 compilations, is likewise in the public domain. |
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* [[Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences]] (1895 essay) |
* [[Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences]] (1895 essay) |
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* ''[[Flatland]]'' (1884) |
* ''[[Flatland]]'' (1884) |
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* ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' |
* ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' |
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* ''[[Heidi]] |
* ''[[Heidi]] |
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* ''[[In Search of the Castaways]]'' |
* ''[[In Search of the Castaways]]'' |
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* ''[[Ivanhoe]]'' |
* ''[[Ivanhoe]]'' |
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== J-K-L == |
== J-K-L == |
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* ''[[Journey to the West]]'' (1590s) |
* ''[[Journey to the West]]'' (1590s) |
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* ''[[Jude the Obscure]]'' |
* ''[[Jude the Obscure]]'' |
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* ''[[Kilmeny of the Orchard]]'' |
* ''[[Kilmeny of the Orchard]]'' |
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* ''[[Kim]]'' |
* ''[[Kim]]'' |
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* ''[[Michael Kohlhaas]]'' (1811) |
* ''[[Michael Kohlhaas]]'' (1811) |
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* ''[[Middlemarch]]'' (1871-72) |
* ''[[Middlemarch]]'' (1871-72) |
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* ''[[Moby Dick]]'' (1851) |
* ''[[Moby Dick]]'' (1851) |
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* ''[[Moll Flanders]]'' (1722) |
* ''[[Moll Flanders]]'' (1722) |
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* ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]'' (published in book format in 1839) |
* ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]'' (published in book format in 1839) |
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* ''[[Noli Me Tangere]]'' (1887) |
* ''[[Noli Me Tangere]]'' (1887) |
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* ''[[Notes From Underground]]'' (1864) |
* ''[[Notes From Underground]]'' (1864) |
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* ''[[Oblomov]]'' (1859) |
* ''[[Oblomov]]'' (1859) |
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* ''[[Oera Linda Book]]'' (first came to light in 1867--no one knows how old the manuscript is or is not) |
* ''[[Oera Linda Book]]'' (first came to light in 1867--no one knows how old the manuscript is or is not) |
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* ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' (published in book form in 1838) |
* ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' (published in book form in 1838) |
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* ''[[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]. |
* ''[[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]. |
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* ''[[Persuasion]]'' (1818) |
* ''[[Persuasion]]'' (1818) |
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* ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813) |
* ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813) |
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* ''[[Quo Vadis]]'' (1895) |
* ''[[Quo Vadis]]'' (1895) |
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* ''[[Raffles]]'': |
* ''[[Raffles]]'': |
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** ''Mr. Justice Raffles'' (novel--1909) |
** ''Mr. Justice Raffles'' (novel--1909) |
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* ''[[Ramona]]'' (1884) |
* ''[[Ramona]]'' (1884) |
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* ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' (1719) |
* ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' (1719) |
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* ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' (fourteenth century) |
* ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' (fourteenth century) |
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* ''[[Romola]]'' (1862-63) |
* ''[[Romola]]'' (1862-63) |
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* ''[[Salammbo]]'' (1862) |
* ''[[Salammbo]]'' (1862) |
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* ''[[Scaramouche]]'' (1921) |
* ''[[Scaramouche]]'' (1921) |
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* ''[[Sense and Sensibility (novel)|Sense and Sensibility]]'' (1811) |
* ''[[Sense and Sensibility (novel)|Sense and Sensibility]]'' (1811) |
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* ''[[Sentimental Education]]'' (1869) |
* ''[[Sentimental Education]]'' (1869) |
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* ''[[Silly Novels by Lady Novelists]]'' (1856) |
* ''[[Silly Novels by Lady Novelists]]'' (1856) |
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* ''[[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) |
* ''[[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) |
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* ''[[Struwwelpeter]]'' (1845) |
* ''[[Struwwelpeter]]'' (1845) |
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* ''[[Swan Lake]]'' |
* ''[[Swan Lake]]'' |
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* ''[[Tartuffe|Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite]]'' (1664) |
* ''[[Tartuffe|Tartuffe, or The Hypocrite]]'' (1664) |
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* ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' |
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* ''[[The Time Machine]]'' |
* ''[[The Time Machine]]'' |
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* ''[[Tom Jones]]'' (1749) |
* ''[[Tom Jones]]'' (1749) |
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* ''[[Treasure Island]]'' |
* ''[[Treasure Island]]'' |
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== V-W-X == |
== V-W-X == |
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* ''[[War and Peace]]'' |
* ''[[War and Peace]]'' |
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* ''[[Water Margin]]'' (mid-fourteenth century) |
* ''[[Water Margin]]'' (mid-fourteenth century) |
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* ''[[Wuthering Heights (novel)| Wuthering Heights]]'' |
* ''[[Wuthering Heights (novel)| Wuthering Heights]]'' |
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== Y-Z == |
== Y-Z == |
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