About 55 minutes
"Peanut": The Story of a Boy — Text and Context
Fantasy Juvenile Worlds
12,499 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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About 97 minutes
Peggy's Giant — Background and Themes
Historical Psychological Social Fiction
22,255 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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The kiss to the leper — Inside the Classic
Science Fiction Utopias
25,064 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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Catalog snapshot checked: 2026-09-25. Coverage: 91 public books, 91 available source excerpts.
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QIUIQ Public Domain Literature Library: Free Classic Books and Stories
This catalogue groups 91 public-domain works into four overlapping subject areas, from exploration and survival tales to science fiction utopias and historical psychological fiction. The categories are not rigid shelves but reading pathways: a school story may sit beside a fantasy adventure, and a 19th-century moral tale may prefigure a later utopian novel. Each record includes a catalogue note that points to narrative devices, thematic concerns, or the reason the work was included, without giving away the plot. To enter the collection, you can browse by category, scan the full alphabetical list, or follow one of three practical reading paths—childhood classics, social change, or cosmic journeys—each designed to show how the books relate.
91 public-domain works104 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
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Exploration Survival Adventure Tales
Stories of childhood, exploration, resilience and imaginative adventure represented across the current public-domain collection.
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Fantasy Juvenile Worlds
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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Science Fiction Utopias
Works exploring technology, imagined futures, discovery and speculative changes in society and everyday life.
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Historical Psychological Social Fiction
Texts connected with historical lives, social customs, institutions and the worlds in which people lived.
Literature — Editor’s Selection
Newly Catalogued by QIUIQ
The kiss to the leper — Inside t...
In Science...
In search of fortune: A tale of ...
In Explora...
Betty Wales on the campus — Back...
In Histori...
The triumph over Midian — Readin...
In Fantasy...
The Rambler Club's motor car — T...
In Science...
Only a farm boy; or, Dan Hardy's...
In Explora...
Whistler; or, The Manly Boy — St...
In Science...
Marcus; or, The Boy-Tamer — Stor...
In Fantasy...
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QIUIQ Catalogue oversees the overall structure of our library, which contains 91 books and 104 authors in 4 categories. They ensure the accuracy and completeness of our collections.
