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The literary backbone of the archive — canonical novels, epics, and short fiction restored to clean reading editions.

• Start hereA Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
• Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
• War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
• Emma Jane Austen
• Erewhon; Or, Over the Range Samuel Butler
• Louise de la Valliere Alexandre Dumas
• News from Nowhere; Or, An Epoch of Rest William Morris
• Ten Years Later Alexandre Dumas
• The Book of Wonder Lord Dunsany
• The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio
• The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson
• The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas
• The Odyssey Homer
• The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories Rudyard Kipling
• The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
• The Vicomte de Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas
• Twenty Years After Alexandre Dumas

Cosmic horror, lost-world pulp, early science fiction, fantasy, and utopian visions from the fringes of the imagination.

• Start hereThe King in Yellow Robert W. Chambers
• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin A. Abbott
• The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson
• Erewhon; Or, Over the Range Samuel Butler
• News from Nowhere; Or, An Epoch of Rest William Morris
• The Book of Wonder Lord Dunsany
• The Moon Pool A. Merritt
• The Smoky God; Or, A Voyage to the Inner World Willis George Emerson

First-hand voyages, walking tours, polar expeditions, and accounts from the edges of the mapped world.

• Start hereThe Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard
• Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum
• Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella L. Bird
• A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains Isabella L. Bird
• The Sea and the Jungle H. M. Tomlinson
• The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo
• The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin
• Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt
• Travels in West Africa Mary Henrietta Kingsley
• Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson
• Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Narrative history, memoir, social reportage, and the literature of upheaval — with a deep seam on the French Revolution.

• Start hereThe French Revolution: A History Thomas Carlyle
• Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant
• The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois
• A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe
• A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
• Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville
• Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini
• The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
• The French Revolution Hilaire Belloc
• The Lives of the Twelve Caesars Suetonius
• The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo Bernal Diaz del Castillo
• The People of the Abyss Jack London
• The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy
• The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 Alexis de Tocqueville
• The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo
• War and Peace Leo Tolstoy

Foundational works on power, leadership, democracy, and the ordering of society.

• Start hereThe Prince Nicolo Machiavelli
• The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
• Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville
• The French Revolution Hilaire Belloc
• The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 Alexis de Tocqueville

Astronomy, mathematics, geology, nature writing, and the observational natural history of expeditions and popular science.

• Start hereThe Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin
• Astronomy of To-day Cecil G. Dolmage
• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin A. Abbott
• Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt
• Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau