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IYIQE 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 collection brings together 96 volumes of letters and speeches, spanning categories from Adventure & Picaresque Fiction to Historical, Psychological & Social Fiction. Featured authors include Bill Nye, Andrew Lang, Lafcadio Hearn, Robert Louis Stevenson, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Carlyle, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. Representative titles such as Baled Hay, Bill Nye and Boomerang, and Principle in Art, Etc. showcase the range of wit, criticism, and social commentary.

Subjects covered include American wit and humor, social problems, literary criticism, art, quotations, socialism, and biographies of Scottish authors. Whether you seek the humor of Bill Nye or the critical essays of Carlyle, this collection offers a window into 19th-century literary and intellectual life.

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