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Passing of the Third Floor Back — A Reader’s Guide
Science Fiction Utopias
10,338 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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Paul Harley's dream — Context and Discussion
Fantasy Juvenile Worlds
10,507 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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Mother — Themes and Context
Fantasy Juvenile Worlds
12,248 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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EMAWE Public Domain Literature: World Events, Young Readers, Speeches, Social Fiction
This library groups ninety-nine public-domain books into four overlapping themes: wandering-hero adventures, fantasy for younger readers, utopian science fiction, and psychologically oriented historical fiction. The arrangement lets you compare how different eras treated heroism, imagination, social dreaming, and interior life. Because the categories are broad, a single book may sit near works from other traditions, making browsing by theme a way to trace ideas across genres. You might start with the adventure section for fast-moving narratives, move to the utopias to see imagined futures, then use the historical fiction to ground those visions in particular periods. The catalogue also lists 116 authors, so you can jump from one writer's work to another across categories.
99 public-domain works116 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
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Wandering Heroes Classic Adventures
Stories of childhood, exploration, resilience and imaginative adventure represented across the current public-domain collection.
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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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Jock with Mousie — Context and D...
In Fantasy...
The movie boys in the jungle — A...
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Jibby Jones — Reading Companion
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