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Explore Historical Works in Literature - LAHUU Public Domain Literature Library

Explore Public-Domain Works in History, Law and Social Inquiry

This library concentrates on drama and fiction, with 98 public-domain titles grouped into four overlapping categories: Adventure Picaresque Fiction, Fantasy Juvenile Worlds, Science Fiction Utopias, and Historical Psychological Social Fiction. Because the categories are not rigid, a single play may appear in more than one, depending on the angle of its catalogue note. That flexibility lets you compare, for example, a domestic comedy against a historical satire, or a fantasy against a social drama. Each record notes the Project Gutenberg digital source, the author, subject keywords, and an editorial observation. If you are new to the collection, the category guides offer starting points, or you can follow the catalogue project's recommended sequence beginning with Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon.