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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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Explore Public-Domain Works in History, Law and Social Inquiry
UXIDU is a small digital catalogue of 92 public-domain works, organized around historical, legal, and social themes. Rather than a general library, it groups works that speak to each other across time and subject, so readers can trace how ideas about law, society, and history recur and shift. Each entry includes source references, author details, and editorial context that explains why a work sits in a particular group. Because the catalogue is compact, it is easy to browse by theme, author, or title, and to follow connections between related works. The editorial notes aim to orient readers without altering the original texts, preserving each work's own rights status.
92 public-domain works101 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
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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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Technology Airships Imagined Futures
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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Fantasy Juvenile Worlds
Won from the Waves — Reading Com...
Authored by Authors: Greene, John B. [Illustra..., 'Won from the Waves — Reading Com...' stands as a notable and significant work within the Fantasy Juvenile Worlds category. Kingston's 19th-century adventure novel opens on a gloomy pier in Hurlston village, where wreck-wood cottages and a tattered windmill set the stage. The excerpts trace Harry's romantic entanglements and social anxieties, revealing a story built on coastal atmosphere, class tension, and moral warnings about love and ambition. It serves as a vital entry point into the broader subjects represented in our archive.
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Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Kei...
In Fantasy...
Jack at Sea: All Work and No Pla...
In Adventu...
Marjorie Dean, High School Fresh...
In Technol...
The Buffalo Runners: A Tale of t...
In Adventu...
Janice Day at Poketown — Story, ...
In Adventu...
Aucassin and Nicolette translate...
In Fantasy...
Black, White and Gray: A Story o...
In Fantasy...
Count Ulrich of Lindburg: A Tale...
In Fantasy...
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Begin with Adventure Picaresque FictionOpen a focused route to works connected with Adventure Picaresque Fiction.Explore Fantasy Juvenile WorldsCompare authors, source types and recurring questions within Fantasy Juvenile Worlds.Read through Technology Airships Imagined FuturesMove from introductory records to related works in Technology Airships Imagined Futures.Browse Historical Psychological Social FictionUse this theme as a starting point for nearby catalogue records in Historical Psychological Social Fiction.
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UXIDU Catalogue manages the overall structure of this online library, which contains 92 books and 101 authors across 4 categories. Catalogue organization supports the accuracy of the catalog.
