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AWOVI Public Domain Literature Library – Classic Adventures, Juvenile Classics, World Events & Historical Worlds

The AWOVI Public Domain Literature Library is a catalogue of 97 English-language fiction works, all sourced from Project Gutenberg. Its four categories—Adventure Picaresque Fiction, Fantasy Juvenile Worlds, Science Fiction Utopias, and Historical Psychological Social Fiction—map relationships across narrative voice, subject, and era. For instance, picaresque journeys and social novels both explore individual movement within constraining structures, while utopian science fiction and historical fiction examine imagined and real social orders. Each record includes bibliographic details, subject keywords, and an editor's note on structure or themes. Readers can browse by category or alphabetically, and related works are linked within categories. The catalogue's practical entry points range from Hudson's picaresque *The Purple Land* to Burney's *Cecilia*.

97 public-domain works77 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
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Literature — Editor’s Selection

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Authors: Christy, Howard Chandler,...

The catalogue includes 2 works by Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952 [Illustrator] across 2 collections: The House of a Thousand Candles — A Closer Reading and The Penalty — Context and Discussion.

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AWOVI Catalogue oversees the overall structure of our digital library, which contains 97 books and works by 77 authors, organized into 4 categories. They ensure the accuracy of our large collections.

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