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What’s in the collection

The catalog contains 18,671 videos and 18,589 distinct word or title entries. It was retrieved on 2026-09-08.

13,271 video pages have dictionary definitions.
10,948 video pages have a sourced IPA pronunciation.
8,731 video pages have at least one book passage.
906 words have a listening tip and practice sentence.

A missing reference means we have not found a suitable match in this collection.

Pronunciation videos

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Definitions

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Only exact headword matches are imported. Unmarked dictionary senses generally appear before historical or uncommon uses. A few entries have explicit editorial priorities, such as the plant, origin, and cheering meanings of “root.” Other senses remain accessible; none are rewritten to fit a video.

The dictionary may include several meanings, and a book passage may illustrate any one of them. WordNet’s coverage of modern language and proper names is incomplete.

IPA and listening tips

On pages with a listening tip, the main IPA follows the pronunciation described in that tip. When a tip covers multiple pronunciations, its IPA section groups those forms with labels that explain the difference. Any remaining imported pronunciations appear under “Other dictionary pronunciations.” Guide and search cards show one representative IPA.

Most notes use dictionary entries. Selected names also draw on interviews and language references. When APG converts a written pronunciation cue into broad IPA or combines dictionary pronunciations for a name, this is labeled. Notes are not transcripts of the APG videos, and speakers may use different pronunciations.

Dictionary IPA comes from Wiktionary, the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, and individually cited Cambridge Dictionary entries. An unqualified Wiktionary transcription is marked when its regional accent is unspecified. British, American, and native-language forms are labeled separately when compared.

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Examples from books

The collection searches 535 books from Project Gutenberg and currently includes 33,811 passages. Two examples appear first, with additional quotations under “More book examples.” Every quotation credits its author and edition, links to the ebook, and highlights the matching word.

We prioritize short, readable passages and preserve the author’s wording. The selection excludes identified historical medical advice and treatment claims, as well as two health-advice sources unsuitable for general vocabulary examples. We leave a book section empty when no suitable passage remains.

Older books can use historical language or a different meaning from the first definition shown. Examples demonstrate written usage; the videos demonstrate pronunciation.

Book selection, verification, and reuse

Each searched ebook is listed as public domain in the United States in Gutenberg’s catalog. Up to five passages per word are retained. Automated spelling matches are ranked for readability and variety across books; matching a word does not establish its dictionary sense. Explicit editorial priorities improve selected entries.

Selection filters out recognizable introductions, contents, editorial notes, and unsuitable passages. The editorial pass withholds 654 previously selected passages; their original text and provenance are retained separately for review.

Original spelling is retained. Whitespace and plain-text emphasis markers are normalized; ellipses identify shortened passages retained from the earlier collection. Source checksums and passage locations allow verification against the downloaded edition. Ebook release dates are not treated as original publication dates.

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Browse the 535 searched editions

The Man from Snowy River — A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
Darwin and Modern Science — A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
Healthful Sports for Boys — A. R. (Alfred Rochefort) Calhoun
Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address — Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address — Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA — Abraham Lincoln
The Foundations of Personality — Abraham Myerson
Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon — Adam Lindsay Gordon
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740 — Adelaide L. (Adelaide Lisetta) Fries
The Fables of Aesop Selected, Told Anew, and Their History Traced — Aesop
Three hundred Aesop’s fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend — Aesop; translated by George Fyler Townsend
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day — Alexander Francis Chamberlain
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial — Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
The Federalist Papers — Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; James Madison
Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East — Alexander William Kinglake
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 — Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé Bonpland; translated by Thomasina Ross
Democracy in America — Volume 1 — Alexis de Tocqueville; translated by Henry Reeve
Library Work with Children — Alice Isabel Hazeltine
The Children — Alice Meynell
A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass — Amy Lowell
Knights of Art: Stories of the Italian Painters — Amy Steedman
Round the World — Andrew Carnegie
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom — Andrew Dickson White
Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook With an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods — Andrew Kippis
Angling Sketches — Andrew Lang
Books and Bookmen — Andrew Lang
Introduction to the Compleat Angler — Andrew Lang
The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Andrew Lang
The Library — Andrew Lang
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 1 (of 2) — Andrew Steinmetz
Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs — Angus D. Webster
The Story of a Pioneer — Anna Howard Shaw; Elizabeth Garver Jordan
The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; A Study in Hygiene — Anna M. (Anna Mary) Galbraith
As a Matter of Course — Annie Payson Call
Nerves and Common Sense — Annie Payson Call
Power Through Repose — Annie Payson Call
The Freedom of Life — Annie Payson Call
The prisoner of Zenda — Anthony Hope
A Study in Scarlet — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Vital Message — Arthur Conan Doyle
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan — Arthur Sullivan; W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
Ethics — Part 1 — Benedictus de Spinoza; translated by R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro) Elwes
Ethics — Part 2 — Benedictus de Spinoza; translated by R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro) Elwes
Ethics — Part 3 — Benedictus de Spinoza; translated by R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro) Elwes
Ethics — Part 4 — Benedictus de Spinoza; translated by R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro) Elwes
Ethics — Part 5 — Benedictus de Spinoza; translated by R. H. M. (Robert Harvey Monro) Elwes
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin
Stammering, its cause and cure — Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue
Essays; Political, Economical, and Philosophical — Volume 1 — Benjamin, Graf von Rumford
The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring — Bernard Shaw
Treatise on Parents and Children — Bernard Shaw
Proposed Roads to Freedom — Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy — Bertrand Russell
Three Acres and Liberty — Bolton Hall
Dracula — Bram Stoker
Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane — Calamity Jane
North American Free Trade Agreement, 1992 Oct. 7 Tariff Phasing Descriptions — Canada
Project Trinity, 1945-1946 — Carl R. Maag; Steve Rohrer
On War — Carl von Clausewitz; translated by J. J. (James John) Graham
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation — Carry Amelia Nation
ABC's of Science — Charles A. (Charles Alexander) Oliver
Indian Boyhood — Charles A. Eastman
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains — Charles A. Eastman
The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation — Charles A. Eastman
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 — Charles Darwin
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters — Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life — Charles Darwin
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin — Charles Darwin
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex — Charles Darwin
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals — Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition — Charles Darwin
The Voyage of the Beagle — Charles Darwin
A Child's History of England — Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas — Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens
American Notes — Charles Dickens
David Copperfield — Charles Dickens
Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
Pictures from Italy — Charles Dickens
Sunday Under Three Heads — Charles Dickens
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1 — Charles Dudley Warner
The Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic Relations — Charles Hose; William McDougall
Alexandria and Her Schools Four Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh — Charles Kingsley
Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore — Charles Kingsley
Madam How and Lady Why; Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children — Charles Kingsley
Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays — Charles Kingsley
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Complete — Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 01: the Hudson and its hills — Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 — Charles Mackay
The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition — Charles Turley
A Book of Scoundrels — Charles Whibley
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography — Charlotte Brontë
Herland — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Royal Road to Health; Or, the Secret of Health Without Drugs — Chas. A. (Charles Alfred) Tyrrell
The Haunted Bookshop — Christopher Morley
The Farm That Won't Wear Out — Cyril G. (Cyril George) Hopkins
The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life — Cyril G. (Cyril George) Hopkins
Sons and Lovers — D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe
The 32nd Mersenne Prime Predicted by Mersenne — David Slowinski
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 — Douglas, Sir Mawson
The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing — E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin
Roving East and Roving West — E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 — Edgar Allan Poe
A princess of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan of the Apes — Edgar Rice Burroughs
The gods of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs
The warlord of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Thuvia, maid of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs
People of Africa — Edith A. How
Summer — Edith Wharton
Renascence, and Other Poems — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning — Edward Carpenter
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 — Edward Gibbon
One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered — Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson
Chess Strategy — Edward Lasker; translated by J. (Jules) Du Mont
Chess and Checkers : the Way to Mastership — Edward Lasker
Success with Small Fruits — Edward Payson Roe
The Home Acre — Edward Payson Roe
Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch — Edward Sylvester Ellis
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions — Edwin Abbott Abbott
John Jacob Astor — Elbert Hubbard
The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion — Eliza Burt Gamble
The Education of the Child — Ellen Key
Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë
The Scarlet Pimpernel — Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races — Emory Adams Allen
Meditations — Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Criminal Sociology — Enrico Ferri
Old English libraries : $b the making, collection, and use of books during the Middle Ages — Ernest Albert Savage
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917 — Ernest Henry, Sir Shackleton
Animal Heroes — Ernest Thompson Seton
Wild Animals I Have Known — Ernest Thompson Seton
Laperouse — Ernest, Sir Scott
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac — Eugene Field
The Treaty of the European Union, Maastricht Treaty, 7th February, 1992 — European Union
A History of Aeronautics — Evelyn Charles Vivian; W. Lockwood (William Lockwood) Marsh
Home Vegetable Gardening A Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use — F. F. (Frederick Frye) Rockwell
Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan — F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King
A Study in Tinguian Folk-Lore — Fay-Cooper Cole
Tales of the Punjab: Folklore of India — Flora Annie Webster Steel
A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sara Crewe; Or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School — Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Tea Leaves — Francis H. Leggett & Co.
Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World — Francis Pretty
Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire — Frank Bird Linderman
Edison: His Life and Inventions — Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford Martin
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco — Frank Norris
Inaugural Address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Given in Washington, D.C. March 4th, 1933 — Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) Roosevelt
Here, There and Everywhere — Frederic, Lord Hamilton
Entertainments for Home, Church and School — Frederica Seeger
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War — Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass
My Bondage and My Freedom — Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave — Frederick Douglass
The History of the Thirty Years' War — Friedrich Schiller; translated by A. J. W. (Alexander James William) Morrison
Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; translated by Helen Zimmern
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; translated by Thomas Common
Wonderful Balloon Ascents; Or, The Conquest of the Skies A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages — Fulgence Marion
Orthodoxy — G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The innocence of Father Brown — G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The wisdom of Father Brown — G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
What's Wrong with the World — G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
In the Riding-School; Chats with Esmeralda — G., Miss Hamlin
The Phantom of the Opera — Gaston Leroux
A Girl of the Limberlost — Gene Stratton-Porter
Freckles — Gene Stratton-Porter
The Song of the Cardinal — Gene Stratton-Porter
Troilus and Criseyde — Geoffrey Chaucer
The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain — George Borrow
Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery — George Borrow
Middlemarch — George Eliot
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine — George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
At the Back of the North Wind — George MacDonald
The Earth as Modified by Human Action — George P. (George Perkins) Marsh
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions; Miscellaneous Papers — George Washington Crile
British Airships, Past, Present, and Future — George Whale
Fabre, Poet of Science — Georges Victor Legros; translated by Bernard Miall
The Fight for Conservation — Gifford Pinchot
A Study of Association in Insanity — Grace Helen Kent; A. J. (Aaron Joshua) Rosanoff
Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula] — Greg Fee
The Psychology of Revolution — Gustave Le Bon
The crowd : $b A study of the popular mind — Gustave Le Bon
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream A Scientific and Practical Exposition — Gustavus Hindman Miller
The Aeroplane Speaks — H. (Horatio) Barber
A Book of Remarkable Criminals — H. B. (Henry Brodribb) Irving
Diseases of the Horse's Foot — H. Caulton (Harry Caulton) Reeks
Chess History and Reminiscences — H. E. (Henry Edward) Bird
Floor Games; a companion volume to "Little Wars" — H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
God, the Invisible King — H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The Time Machine — H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The island of Doctor Moreau — H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The war of the worlds — H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
In Defense of Women — H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students — Hans Gross; translated by Horace Meyer Kallen
The Damnation of Theron Ware — Harold Frederic
Uncle Tom's Cabin — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Making Good on Private Duty: Practical Hints to Graduate Nurses — Harriet Camp Lounsbery
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc. — Harry Houdini
The Mule: A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put — Harvey Riley
The Story of Mankind — Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate — Henry Clay
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience — Henry David Thoreau
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience — Henry David Thoreau
Wild Apples — Henry David Thoreau
The History and Practice of the Art of Photography — Henry Hunt Snelling
Confidence — Henry James
Daisy Miller: A Study — Henry James
Roderick Hudson — Henry James
The American — Henry James
The Europeans — Henry James
In the Days When the World Was Wide, and Other Verses — Henry Lawson
Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & Cure — Henry Lindlahr
Henry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military Academy — Henry Ossian Flipper
A History of Science — Volume 1 — Henry Smith Williams; Edward Huntington Williams
The Song of Hiawatha — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Naturalist on the River Amazons — Henry Walter Bates
The History of the Telephone — Herbert Newton Casson
Moby Dick; Or, The Whale — Herman Melville
The Opium Habit — Horace B. Day
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 — Horace Walpole
Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World — Ignatius Donnelly
Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel — Ignatius Donnelly
Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People — Isaac Taylor Headland
The Chinese Boy and Girl — Isaac Taylor Headland
How and When to Be Your Own Doctor — Isabel A. Moser; Steve Solomon
The romance of Isabel Lady Burton : $b The story of her life. Volume II — Isabel, Lady Burton; W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains — Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
The Compleat Angler — Izaak Walton
The Complete Angler 1653 — Izaak Walton
Arizona Sketches — J. A. (Joseph Amasa) Munk
The Black Death, and The Dancing Mania — J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker; translated by B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington
Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations — J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures — J. H. (John Henry) Patterson
Appendicitis: The Etiology, Hygenic and Dietetic Treatment — J. H. (John Henry) Tilden
The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a Psychic Revelation — J. L. Kennon
Margaret Ogilvy — J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
Peter Pan : $b [Peter and Wendy] — J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy — J. Morris (Josiah Morris) Slemons
The People of the Abyss — Jack London
The call of the wild — Jack London
War of the Classes — Jack London
Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter — James Inglis
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It — James J. (James John) Davis
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography — James Nasmyth
Abraham Lincoln — James Russell Lowell
My Garden Acquaintance — James Russell Lowell
Aeroplanes — James Slough Zerbe
Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes — Jane Addams
Emma — Jane Austen
Mansfield Park — Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen
Persuasion — Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
The Constitution of Japan, 1946 — Japan
The Constitution of the Empire of Japan, 1889 — Japan
Daddy-Long-Legs — Jean Webster
Dear Enemy — Jean Webster
Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples — Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de Nadaillac; translated by N. D'Anvers
Bramble-Bees and Others — Jean-Henri Fabre; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
More Hunting Wasps — Jean-Henri Fabre; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography — Jean-Henri Fabre; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The Life of the Spider — Jean-Henri Fabre; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The Mason-Bees — Jean-Henri Fabre; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The golden mean — Jerry T. Bonnell; Robert J. Nemiroff
A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum — Joel Benton
The Star-Spangled Banner — John A. Carpenter
Dry-Farming : A System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall — John Andreas Widtsoe
The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan — John Bunyan
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers — John Burroughs
Remarks of Mr. Calhoun of South Carolina on the bill to prevent the interference of certain federal officers in elections: delivered in the Senate of the United States February 22, 1839 — John C. (John Caldwell) Calhoun
James Otis, the Pre-Revolutionist — John Clark Ridpath; G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer) Adam; Charles K. (Charles Keyser) Edmunds
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education — John Dewey
Personal Experience of a Physician — John Ellis
John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address — John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy
The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon Containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucke — John Filson
The Unseen World, and Other Essays — John Fiske
The Beggar's Opera — John Gay
The Boy Captives: An Incident of the Indian War of 1695 — John Greenleaf Whittier
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 — John Locke
Second Treatise of Government — John Locke
The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation — John M. (John Mackenzie) Bacon
A Preliminary Revision of the North American Species of Cactus, Anhalonium, and Lophophora — John Merle Coulter
Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England — John Milton
Paradise Lost — John Milton
Paradise Regained — John Milton
Steep Trails — John Muir
Heroes of the Telegraph — John Munro
The Jubilee of the Constitution Delivered at New York, April 30, 1839, Before the New York Historical Society — John Quincy Adams
On Liberty — John Stuart Mill
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville — John, Sir Mandeville
A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales — Jonathan Nield
A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick — Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World — Jonathan Swift
Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad
The Mirror of the Sea — Joseph Conrad
The Secret Sharer — Joseph Conrad
The Book of Mormon : $b an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi — Joseph, Jr. Smith; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Sailing Alone Around the World — Joshua Slocum
Seven Discourses on Art — Joshua, Sir Reynolds
Main Street, and Other Poems — Joyce Kilmer
Trees, and Other Poems — Joyce Kilmer
Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules Verne; translated by George M. (George Makepeace) Towle
From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon — Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea — Jules Verne
Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies — K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker
The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia — K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker
The Book of Tea — Kakuzo Okakura
The Communist Manifesto — Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels
The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories — Kate Chopin
The Marvelous Land of Oz — L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) A Practical Guide to the Making of Home Grounds and the Growing of Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for Home Use — L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
Anne of Avonlea — L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables — L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Anne of the Island — L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition — L. W. (Leonard William) King
The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics — Laozi; translated by James Legge
The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons — Lawrence Beesley
The forged coupon, and other stories — Leo, graf Tolstoy
War and Peace — Leo, graf Tolstoy; translated by Aylmer Maude; Louise Maude
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits — Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass — Lewis Carroll
Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, 9-10 June 1992 — Library of Congress
Copyright Law of the United States of America Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code — Library of Congress. Copyright Office; United States
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 — Louis Ginzberg; translated by Henrietta Szold
Flower Fables — Louisa May Alcott
Letters from the Cape — Lucie, Lady Duff Gordon
An Essay on the Trial By Jury — Lysander Spooner
The Life of General Francis Marion — M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems
The Project Gutenberg RST Manual — Marcello Perathoner
The Pivot of Civilization — Margaret Sanger
Myths and Legends of the Sioux — Marie L. McLaughlin
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court — Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World — Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete — Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer Abroad — Mark Twain
What Is Man? and Other Essays — Mark Twain
A Treatise on Good Works — Martin Luther; translated by Johann Michael Reu
An Open Letter on Translating — Martin Luther; translated by Gary Mann
Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians — Martin Luther; translated by Theodore Graebner
Concerning Christian Liberty; with Letter of Martin Luther to Pope Leo X. — Martin Luther
Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences — Martin Luther
Luther's Little Instruction Book: The Small Catechism of Martin Luther — Martin Luther; translated by Robert E. Smith
Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau — Martin Luther; translated by F. (Friedrich) Bente; W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau
The Smalcald Articles — Martin Luther; translated by F. (Friedrich) Bente; W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau
The Land of Little Rain — Mary Austin
Games for Hallow-e'en — Mary E. Blain
The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa — Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson — Mary White Rowlandson
Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft
Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Price/Cost Indexes from 1875 to 1989; Estimated to 2010 — Michael Hart
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete — Michel de Montaigne; translated by Charles Cotton
Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money We Made by It — Miss Coulton
Charlotte Temple — Mrs. Rowson
The House of the Seven Gables — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Trinity Site — National Atomic Museum (U.S.)
Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes — Neltje Blanchan
Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors — Neltje Blanchan
The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli; translated by W. K. (William Kenaz) Marriott
Recipes Tried and True — Ohio). Ladies' Aid Society First Presbyterian Church (Marion
Woman and Labour — Olive Schreiner
Disturbances of the Heart Discussion of the Treatment of the Heart in Its Various Disorders, With a Chapter on Blood Pressure — Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Omar Khayyam; translated by Edward FitzGerald
The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
The Soul of Man under Socialism — Oscar Wilde
System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Misery — P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government — P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
The King of Ireland's Son — Padraic Colum
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death — Patrick Henry
Roget's Thesaurus — Peter Mark Roget
The Augsburg Confession The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530 — Philipp Melanchthon
Charmides — Plato; translated by Benjamin Jowett
Laches — Plato; translated by Benjamin Jowett
Lysis — Plato; translated by Benjamin Jowett
The Republic — Plato; translated by Benjamin Jowett
Timaeus — Plato; translated by Benjamin Jowett
Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans — Plutarch
Two Years in the Forbidden City — Princess Der Ling
Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children — Pye Henry Chavasse
The University of Hard Knocks — Ralph Albert Parlette
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency) — Rasmus Larssen Alsaker
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences — René Descartes; translated by John Veitch
George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings — René Doumic; translated by Alys Hallard
Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance — Richard Francis, Sir Burton
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 — Richard Hakluyt
Voyager's Tales — Richard Hakluyt
Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage — Richard Hakluyt
Two Years Before the Mast — Richard Henry Dana
The Pageant of Summer — Richard Jefferies
The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury — Richard de Bury; translated by Ernest Chester Thomas
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1 — Roald Amundsen; translated by Arthur G. Chater
Common Diseases of Farm Animals — Robert Alexander Craig
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry — Robert Browning; Hiram Corson
Dogs and All about Them — Robert Leighton
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes — Robert Louis Stevenson
Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu — Robert Louis Stevenson
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin — Robert Louis Stevenson
Prayers Written At Vailima, and A Lowden Sabbath Morn — Robert Louis Stevenson
Records of a Family of Engineers — Robert Louis Stevenson
The Silverado Squatters — Robert Louis Stevenson
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness — Robert S. (Robert Sproul) Carroll
Great Astronomers — Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson — Robert Southey
Ballads of a Cheechako — Robert W. (Robert William) Service
The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses — Robert W. (Robert William) Service
Shearing in the Riverina, New South Wales — Rolf Boldrewood
The Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling
An Introduction to Chemical Science — Rufus P. (Rufus Phillips) Williams
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke — Rupert Brooke
Acres of Diamonds: Our Every-day Opportunities — Russell H. Conwell
The First Book of Adam and Eve — Rutherford Hayes Platt
The Book of Were-Wolves — S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype — S. D. (Samuel Dwight) Humphrey
Wild Northern Scenes; Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod — S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond
Canterbury Pieces — Samuel Butler
Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers — Samuel Smiles
Men of Invention and Industry — Samuel Smiles
Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance — Samuel Smiles
The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain — Samuel Smiles
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 — Samuel White, Sir Baker
How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell — Sara Cone Bryant
Stories to Tell to Children — Sara Cone Bryant
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu — Sax Rohmer
Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone — Sophocles; translated by Francis Storr
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War — Stephen Crane
Gardening without irrigation : $b or without much, anyway — Steve Solomon
Organic Gardener's Composting — Steve Solomon
The Forest — Stewart Edward White
The Land of Footprints — Stewart Edward White
The Doré Lectures Being Sunday addresses at the Doré Gallery, London, given in connection with the Higher Thought Centre — T. (Thomas) Troward
Sister Carrie: A Novel — Theodore Dreiser
Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches An Account of the Big Game of the United States and its Chase with Horse, Hound, and Rifle — Theodore Roosevelt
The maternal management of children, in health and disease — Thomas Bull
The Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars — Volume 2 — Thomas H. Burgoyne; Belle M. Wagner
Far from the Madding Crowd — Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure — Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman — Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge — Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native — Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hart Benton's Remarks to the Senate on the Expunging Resolution — Thomas Hart Benton
Lectures on Evolution Essay #3 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" — Thomas Henry Huxley
On the Method of Zadig Essay #1 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" — Thomas Henry Huxley
On the Reception of the 'Origin of Species' — Thomas Henry Huxley
The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology Essay #2 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" — Thomas Henry Huxley
Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes — Thomas Henry Huxley; Charles Darwin
Leviathan — Thomas Hobbes
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America — Thomas Jefferson
United States Declaration of Independence — Thomas Jefferson
Common Sense — Thomas Paine
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume I From San Francisco to Teheran — Thomas Stevens
The Life of Sir Richard Burton — Thomas Wright
The Burgess Animal Book for Children — Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
The Burgess Bird Book for Children — Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
The Theory of the Leisure Class — Thorstein Veblen
America, Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat — Tingfang Wu
1995 United States Congressional Address Book — United States
The United States Bill of Rights The Ten Original Amendments to the Constitution of the United States — United States
The United States Constitution — United States
Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives — United States. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District
The 1990 United States Census — United States. Bureau of the Census
The 1990 United States Census [incomplete] — United States. Bureau of the Census
United States Census Figures Back to 1630 — United States. Bureau of the Census
The 1990 CIA World Factbook — United States. Central Intelligence Agency
The 1991 CIA World Factbook — United States. Central Intelligence Agency
The 1992 CIA World Factbook — United States. Central Intelligence Agency
The 1993 CIA World Factbook — United States. Central Intelligence Agency
The 1994 CIA World Factbook — United States. Central Intelligence Agency
United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to George W. Bush — United States. Presidents
The Jungle — Upton Sinclair
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation — Upton Sinclair
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue — Various
The Scientific Monthly, October to December, 1915 — Various
Les Misérables — Victor Hugo; translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood
The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War — Victor Lefebure
She Stands Accused — Victor MacClure
The Aeneid — Virgil; translated by John Dryden
The Bucolics and Eclogues — Virgil
The Georgics — Virgil; translated by James Rhoades
The Voyage Out — Virginia Woolf
Candide — Voltaire
The Souls of Black Folk — W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
The Cook's Decameron A Study in Taste, Containing over Two Hundred Recipes for Italian Dishes — W. G., Mrs. Waters
The Moon and Sixpence — W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
Increasing Human Efficiency in Business A Contribution to the Psychology of Business — Walter Dill Scott
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry — Walter Pater
Ivanhoe: A Romance — Walter Scott
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Washington Irving
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice — Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone — Wilkie Collins
Alexander's Bridge — Willa Cather
My Ántonia — Willa Cather
O Pioneers! — Willa Cather
The Song of the Lark — Willa Cather
In Darkest England, and the Way Out — William Booth
Checkmates for Three Pieces — William Brett Fishburne
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery — William Craft; Ellen Craft
The Rise of Silas Lapham — William Dean Howells
A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a History of His Brigade — William Dobein James
The Life of Francis Marion — William Gilmore Simms
Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author — William Godwin
Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records — William H. (William Henry) Gilder
Pathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic Psychology — William Healy; Mary Tenney Healy
Flying Machines: Construction and Operation A Practical Book Which Shows, in Illustrations, Working Plans and Text, How to Build and Navigate the Modern Airship — William J. (William James) Jackman; Octave Chanute; Thomas Herbert Russell
Secrets of the woods — William J. (William Joseph) Long
The mastery of the air — William J. Claxton
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature — William James
Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair — William Morris
The Well at the World's End: A Tale — William Morris
A Dissertation on Horses Wherein It is Demonstrated, by Matters of Fact, as Well as from the Principles of Philosophy, That Innate Qualities Do Not Exist, and That the Excellence of This Animal is Altogether Mechanical and Not in the Blood — William Osmer
Umbrellas and Their History — William Sangster
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare — William Shakespeare
The Art of Lawn Tennis — William T. (William Tatem) Tilden
The Power of Concentration — William Walker Atkinson
Clotelle; Or, The Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; Or, The President's Daughter — William Wells Brown
The Dog — William Youatt
Everybody's Guide to Money Matters With a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing therein — William, F.S.A., of Exeter Cotton
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 — William, Sir Osler
Old Indian Legends — Zitkala-Sa
The Art of War — active 6th century B.C. Sunzi; translated by Lionel Giles
The Imitation of Christ — à Kempis Thomas; translated by William Benham

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