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A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas | [
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"birth_year": 1812,
"death_year": 1870,
"name": "Dickens, Charles"
}
] | [] | [
"Christmas stories",
"Ghost stories",
"London (England) -- Fiction",
"Misers -- Fiction",
"Poor families -- Fiction",
"Scrooge, Ebenezer (Fictitious character) -- Fiction",
"Sick children -- Fiction"
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"Christmas"
] | [
"en"
] | false | 73,366 | Title: A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Author: Charles Dickens
Illustrator: John Leech
Release date: August 11, 2004 [eBook #46]Most recently updated: November 13, 2021
Language: English
IHAVEendeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise
the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not p... |
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus | [
{
"birth_year": 1797,
"death_year": 1851,
"name": "Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft"
}
] | [] | ["Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character) -- Fiction","Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious charac(...TRUNCATED) | [
"Gothic Fiction",
"Movie Books",
"Precursors of Science Fiction",
"Science Fiction by Women"
] | [
"en"
] | false | 60,961 | "Title: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus\nAuthor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley\nRelease date: (...TRUNCATED) |
Moby Dick; Or, The Whale | [
{
"birth_year": 1819,
"death_year": 1891,
"name": "Melville, Herman"
}
] | [] | ["Adventure stories","Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction","Mentally ill -- Fiction","Ps(...TRUNCATED) | [
"Best Books Ever Listings"
] | [
"en"
] | false | 59,536 | "Title: Moby Dick; Or, The Whale\nAuthor: Herman Melville\nRelease date: July 1, 2001 [eBook #2701]M(...TRUNCATED) |
Romeo and Juliet | [
{
"birth_year": 1564,
"death_year": 1616,
"name": "Shakespeare, William"
}
] | [] | ["Conflict of generations -- Drama","Juliet (Fictitious character) -- Drama","Romeo (Fictitious char(...TRUNCATED) | [] | [
"en"
] | false | 51,927 | "Title: Romeo and Juliet\nAuthor: William Shakespeare\nRelease date: November 1, 1998 [eBook #1513]M(...TRUNCATED) |
Pride and Prejudice | [
{
"birth_year": 1775,
"death_year": 1817,
"name": "Austen, Jane"
}
] | [] | ["Courtship -- Fiction","Domestic fiction","England -- Fiction","Love stories","Sisters -- Fiction",(...TRUNCATED) | [
"Best Books Ever Listings",
"Harvard Classics"
] | [
"en"
] | false | 50,914 | "Title: Pride and Prejudice\nAuthor: Jane Austen\nRelease date: June 1, 1998 [eBook #1342]Most recen(...TRUNCATED) |
Middlemarch | [
{
"birth_year": 1819,
"death_year": 1880,
"name": "Eliot, George"
}
] | [] | ["Bildungsromans","City and town life -- Fiction","Didactic fiction","Domestic fiction","England -- (...TRUNCATED) | [
"Best Books Ever Listings",
"Historical Fiction"
] | [
"en"
] | false | 47,131 | "Title: Middlemarch\nAuthor: George Eliot\nRelease date: July 1, 1994 [eBook #145]Most recently upda(...TRUNCATED) |
A Room with a View | [
{
"birth_year": 1879,
"death_year": 1970,
"name": "Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)"
}
] | [] | ["British -- Italy -- Fiction","England -- Fiction","Florence (Italy) -- Fiction","Humorous stories"(...TRUNCATED) | [
"Italy"
] | [
"en"
] | false | 46,375 | "Title: A Room with a View\nAuthor: E. M. Forster\nRelease date: May 1, 2001 [eBook #2641]Most recen(...TRUNCATED) |
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare | [
{
"birth_year": 1564,
"death_year": 1616,
"name": "Shakespeare, William"
}
] | [] | [
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] | [
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] | [
"en"
] | false | 44,424 | "Title: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare\nAuthor: William Shakespeare\nRelease date: Januar(...TRUNCATED) |
Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy | [
{
"birth_year": 1832,
"death_year": 1888,
"name": "Alcott, Louisa May"
}
] | [] | ["Autobiographical fiction","Bildungsromans","Domestic fiction","Family life -- New England -- Ficti(...TRUNCATED) | [] | [
"en"
] | false | 43,524 | "Title: Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy\nAuthor: Louisa May Alcott\nIllustrator: Frank T. M(...TRUNCATED) |
The Enchanted April | [
{
"birth_year": 1866,
"death_year": 1941,
"name": "Von Arnim, Elizabeth"
}
] | [] | ["British -- Italy -- Fiction","Domestic fiction","Female friendship -- Fiction","Italy -- Fiction",(...TRUNCATED) | [
"Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923"
] | [
"en"
] | false | 41,458 | "Title: The Enchanted April\nAuthor: Elizabeth Von Arnim\nRelease date: July 29, 2005 [eBook #16389](...TRUNCATED) |
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Welcome to the World of Gutendex English Books!
This repository brings you a curated collection of English books from the vast Gutendex library, hosted on the amazing Hugging Face platform. Dive into a plethora of classics, timeless gems, and lesser-known treasures, all waiting to be explored and rediscovered.
✨ What's inside?
- Thousands of English books: We've meticulously handpicked and processed a diverse selection of English books, spanning various genres and eras. From adventure novels and historical sagas to philosophical treatises and poetry anthologies, you'll find something for every taste.
- Clean and accessible text: Each book is carefully cleaned and converted to plain text format, making it readily available for natural language processing (NLP) tasks and analysis.
- Easy-to-use metadata: Each book comes with rich metadata, including author, title, publication date, genre, and language. This makes it simple to filter, search, and organize your literary adventures.
- Open and shareable: This repository is built on the collaborative spirit of Hugging Face. Feel free to fork, contribute, and build upon this collection to create your own unique literary playground.
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- Explore the dataset: Browse the list of available books or use the provided metadata to find specific titles or genres.
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Beyond the bookshelf:
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