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Source-Based Editions in Literature - NMEER Public Domain Literature Library

NMEER Public Domain Literature Library: Adventure, Classics, History & More

The NMEER Public Domain Literature Library presents 99 public-domain works from Project Gutenberg, selected for their literary and historical interest. The catalogue is organized into four overlapping categories—Exploration Survival Adventure Tales, Fantasy Juvenile Worlds, Science Fiction Utopias, and Historical Psychological Social Fiction—each grouping books by shared subject, setting, or narrative mode. To help you enter the collection, we offer three practical reading paths: the Survival Path (starting with Jack London's The Mutiny of the Elsinore), the Social Observation Path (beginning with Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage), and the Humor Path (starting with Lucretia P. Hale's The Peterkin Papers). These paths cross categories, reflecting the way many works span multiple themes.