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ACOGU Public Domain Literature Library is an independent catalogue of source-attributed public-domain editions focused on Literature. Each record connects readers with edition facts, historical context and the original source record.

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This digital library presents 99 works of general literature, spanning adventure & picaresque fiction, fantasy & juvenile worlds, science fiction & utopias, and historical, psychological & social fiction. The collection includes translations of French fiction and features frequent subjects such as girls' and boys' coming-of-age stories, friendship, Christian life, conduct of life, orphans, schools, and seafaring life. Representative authors include Angela Brazil, Horatio Alger Jr., Anatole France, William Henry Giles Kingston, Martha Finley, Percy F. Westerman, Emilie Jackson (translator), and Edward Sylvester Ellis.

Notable titles include The Gods are Athirst, The New Girl at St. Chad's: A Story of School Life, The Little Lame Prince rewritten for young readers by Margaret Waters, For the Master's Sake: A Story of the Days of Queen Mary, St. Winifred's; or, The World of School, and Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs: A Tale of Land and Sea. All works are freely accessible at acogu.com.

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