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Books & documents
- Final theory (2008) — Alpert, Mark, 1961- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Agatha Christie on screen (2016) — Aldridge, Mark, author Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The adventures of the woman homesteader : the life and letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1992) — Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, 1876-1933 Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Худородные (1958) — Дмитрий Наркисович Мамин-Сибиряк Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, and other countries of the East; edited from manuscript journals, by Robert Walpole, M.A. The second edition (1818) — Walpole, Robert (ed.) Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Notes on the Paranormal — Ben Steigmann Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Willeford (1997) — Herron, Don Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The Essential Agus - The Writings of Jacob B. Agus (1997) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Virginia Woolf : the will to create as a woman (2005) — Gruber, Ruth, 1911- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The Japanese effect in contemporary Irish poetry (2012) — De Angelis, Irene Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Lost in the customhouse : authorship in the American renaissance (1993) — Loving, Jerome, 1941- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- CIA Reading Room cia-rdp86t00268r000700010015-0: U. S. POLICY GUIDANCE AND ACTIONS TAKEN TO EXPLOIT THE ANTI-STALIN CAMPAIGN (1956) — CIA Reading Room Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Fair Use For Nonfiction Authors (2017) — Brianna L. Schofield, Robert Kirk Walker Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/]
- Copyright : Interpreting the law for libraries, archives and information services (2015) — Cornish, Graham P Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The Edinburgh literary journal : or, Weekly register of criticism and belles lettres (1828) — Percy Bysshe Shelley Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- A Sherlock Holmes handbook (1993) — Redmond, Christopher Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- How to think like God : the secrets of God, initiation, the Illuminati, religion, secret societies, psychology, mind control, history and everything else! (2017) — Godsun, Bret, author Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The letters of Ernest Hemingway (2011) — Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, author Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Fetching the Old Southwest : humorous writing from Longstreet to Twain (2004) — Justus, James H Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Emily Dickinson and her contemporaries : women's verse in America, 1820-1885 (1998) — Petrino, Elizabeth A., 1962- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law (LSB10922, v10, June 16, 2025) (2025) — Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, Christopher T. Zirpoli Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/]
- Profiles In History: Historical Auction 55 July 10, 2013 (2013) — Profiles in History Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The Book Of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa — Fernando Pessoa Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/]
- Shakespeare's tragedies and modern critical theory (1997) — Cunningham, James, 1948- Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- Selected literary criticism (1935) — D. H. Lawrence Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Essays moral, political, and literary (1875) — David Hume Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Unpublishable works (1997) — Erwin J. Warkentin Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Prose (1876) — William Wordsworth Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Exiles (1918) — James Joyce, James Joyce, J. Joyce, JAMES JOYCE Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes (The Raven Edition) (1903) — Edgar Allan Poe Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Poems (1896) — Robert Louis Stevenson Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Resources for american literary study (2007) — Jackson R. Bryer, Richard Kopley Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Addresses and reprints, 1850-1907 (1909) — Moncure Daniel Conway Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Recollections of the life of Lord Byron, from the year 1808 to the end of 1814 (1824) — Robert Charles Dallas Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Emma (1815) — Jane Austen Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The prose works of William Wordsworth (1967) — William Wordsworth Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Recollections of the life of Lord Byron (1824) — Robert Charles Dallas Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The unknown Kerouac (2016) — Jack Kerouac Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Hugh Maclennan's Best (1991) — Hugh MacLennan Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- English into Pashto - unpublished (2011) — MD NAZIR AHMADZAI Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Dubliners (1914) — James Joyce Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings (2015) — Shirley Jackson, Laurence Jackson Hyman Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Tolstoy (1931) — Лев Толстой Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Romantic imagery in the works of Walter de la Mare (1989) — A. Bentinck, G. Singh Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Jane Eyre (1847) — Charlotte Brontë Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Scarlet Letter (1986) — Nathaniel Hawthorne Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
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