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Fantasy Juvenile Worlds
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How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers: A Manual of Flornithology for Beginners — Story, Setting & Ideas
Fantasy Juvenile Worlds
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EULOL Public Domain Literature Library: 91 Classic Works in Four Categories
This library holds 91 public-domain works that share a comic or satirical bent, drawn from English and translated sources of the 17th to early 20th centuries. The four subject categories—Adventure Picaresque Fiction, Fantasy Juvenile Worlds, Science Fiction Utopias, and Historical Psychological Social Fiction—overlap deliberately, each offering a different angle on humor and social observation. You can enter through parody, social satire, or childhood favorites; the catalogue notes explain each work's themes and context.
91 public-domain works99 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
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Adventure Picaresque Fiction
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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The young immigrunts — Story, Se...
In Adventu...
Uncle Tweazy and his quizzical n...
In Histori...
Further nonsense verse and prose...
In Histori...
Uncle Tweazy and his quizzical n...
In Histori...
Scrambled eggs — Background and ...
In Fantasy...
German wit and humor — A Reader’...
In Adventu...
Famous funny fellows — Context a...
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The day's play — A Closer Reading
In Fantasy...
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