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AE / George William Russell (1867-1935)

Some of this writer's work is in the public domain in the US. Here is a complete list of available online works.

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Hervey Allen (1889-1949)

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George Sidney Arundale (1878-1945)

The US copyright status of these works is uncertain. They are provided by AnandGholap.net, in India.

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937)

Much of Barrie's work is in the public domain in the US. Here is a complete list of available online works.

The play below is still copyrighted in the US, because the script was not published until 1928. (See the link above for earlier works featuring Peter Pan that are public domain in the US.) The text is provided by Gutenberg Australia.

Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)

Some of Benet's work is in the public domain in the US. Here is a complete list of available online works.

The US copyright status of the text below is uncertain. It is provided by Gutenberg Australia.

Annie Wood Besant (1846-1933)

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Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933)

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Steen Steensen Blicher (1782-1848)

Blicher's original work published in his lifetime is in the public domain in the US. However, some English translations, like the one below, are not. The text below is provided by Gutenberg Australia.

Jean Richard Bloch (1884-1947)

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Frederick Bligh Bond (1864-1945)

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John Buchan (1875-1940)

Books by John Buchan, both in and out of US copyright, can now be accessed via his author page.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)

Books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, both in and out of US copyright, can now be accessed via his author page.

Emily Carr (1871-1945)

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Willa Cather (1873-1947)

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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

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Lord (Charles J.) Darling (1849-1936)

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Warwick Deeping (1877-1950)

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Norman Douglas (1868-1952)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

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Text below courtesy of the University of Adelaide, in Australia

Texts below courtesy of Forgotten Futures, in the UK. For the other Professor Challenger Stories, see above. A complete Challenger collection, which includes the titles still under copyright in the US, is here. Text below courtesy of Gutenberg Australia

Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

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Arthur Eddington (1882-1944)

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Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

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The text below is courtesy Gutenberg Australia.

The text below is courtesy eBooks@Adelaide

John Foxe (1516-1587)

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Robert Dean Frisbie (1896-1948)

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John Galsworthy (1867-1933)

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Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

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Zane Grey (1872-1939)

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Frederick Philip Grove (1879-1948)

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H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)

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Frank Harris (1855-1931)

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Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)

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Sir Albert Howard (1873-1947)

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Stephen Hudson (1868-1944)

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W. H. Hudson (1841-1922)

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Eleanor Hull (1860-1935)

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James Joyce (1882-1941)

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Text below courtesy of Trent University, in Canada

Robert Hatch Kennett (1864-1932)

Text below courtesy of McMaster University, in Canada

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)

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The US copyright status of the following work is uncertain. It apparently fell out of copyright, but its copyright may have been restored if the first UK edition was published more than 30 days before the first US edition. It is provided by Gutenberg Australia.

Raymond Knister (1899-1932)

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D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

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The status of "The Fox" below is uncertain. The original magazine version, published in The Dial in 1922, is in the public domain in the US, but the text below is from a book published in 1923 which has its own copyright. We do not know whether this version has copyrightable revisions.

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T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)

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Stephen Leacock (1869-1944)

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The texts below are provided by Free Dominion, in Canada, and by Project Gutenberg of Australia.

Hermann Levy (1881-1949)

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Text below courtesy of McMaster University, in Canada

Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)

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C. H. Lightoller (d. 1952)

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Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870-1944)

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Lennie Lower (1903-1947)

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Maurice Magnus (1876-1920)

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Frederic Manning (1882-1935)

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A. E. W. Mason (1865-1948)

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Katherine Mayo (1868?-1940)

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Abraham Merritt (1884-1943)

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Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

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Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)

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Talbot Mundy (1879-1940)

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Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)

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Baroness Orczy (1865-1947)

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George Orwell (1903-1950)

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Brian Penton (1904-1951)

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Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)

Books by Luigi Pirandello, both in and out of US copyright, can now be accessed via his author page.

Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

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Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946)

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The US copyright status of the following works are uncertain. The PDF versions are provided by SETIS, and the text and zip versions by gutenberg.au. Both sites are in Australia.

Ernest Scott (1868-1939)

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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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Hester Travers Smith (1868-1949)

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Thorne Smith (1892-1934)

The Forgotten Futures Thorne Smith Collection has editions of all the Thorne Smith books I list, plus a few short stories. Single-file formats of some of these etexts can also be found at Malcolm Farmer's site. (Both of these sites are in the UK.) There are also two Topper books at gasl.org in Germany, which may or may not be use the same texts as at the UK sites:

Some of Smith's work is in the public domain in the US. Here is a complete list of available online works.

Stendhal (1783-1842)

The original French editions of Stendhal's work, as well as early English translations, are in the public domain in the US. The English translations below, however, are not. They are provided by Gutenberg Australia.

Lothrop Stoddard (1883-1950)

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Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)

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