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Curated shelf of public-domain adventure fiction, ranked by historical popularity. Returns title, author, year, book_id, and drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

Ask a question about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summ

Ask a question about The Art of War for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the text itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real text, not a generated summary or answer. No

Ask a question about The Count of Monte Cristo for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary or

Ask a question about Crime and Punishment for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary or answe

Ask a question about Don Quixote for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary or answer. No lic

Ask a question about Dracula for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary or answer. No license

Ask a question about Frankenstein for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary or answer. No li

Ask a question about Great Expectations for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary or answer.

Ask a question about Grimms' Fairy Tales for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary or answer

Ask a question about Jane Eyre for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary or answer. No licen

Ask a question about Marcus Aurelius's Meditations for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the text itself, with location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real text, not a generated summary or answer.

Ask a question about Moby-Dick for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary or answer. No licen

Ask a question about The Picture of Dorian Gray for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary or

Ask a question about Pride and Prejudice for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary or answer

Ask a question about The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated sum

Ask a question about Homer's Iliad for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the text itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real text, not a generated summary or answer. No l

Ask a question about Homer's Odyssey for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the text itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real text, not a generated summary or answer. No

Ask a question about Plato's Republic for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the text itself, with location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real text, not a generated summary or answer. No license, n

Ask a question about The Time Machine for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary or answer. N

Ask a question about The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary

Ask a question about Treasure Island for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary or answer. No

Ask a question about Thoreau's Walden for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the text itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real text, not a generated summary or answer. N

Ask a question about War and Peace for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary or answer. No l

Ask a question about Wuthering Heights for a tutoring agent, quiz generator, or reading app — get back matching source passages with surrounding context from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only, full-text search over the real book, not a generated summary or answer.

Retrieve the full text of one chapter from an indexed book by book_id and chapter number. Chapter 0 is front matter before the first detected heading. Use /book-metadata first to see a book's valid chapter range. No license, no API key required.

Look up metadata by book_id: title, author, Gutenberg ebook release year (not original publication year), subjects, bookshelves, download count, and detected section range. Front matter is reported separately. Section indices may differ from printed chapters. Use book_id from /book-search or a categ

Deterministic daily book pick from the indexed corpus, date-seeded so every caller gets the same answer on the same day. Optional date override for backfill. Returns book_id and drill-down routes. No license, no API key required.

Get notable passages from one indexed book by book_id. Pass an optional theme to full-text search within that book, or omit it for a sample of short dialogue-bearing passages. Returns real excerpts, never generated or paraphrased. No license, no API key required.

Search the indexed public-domain book corpus by title or author substring. Returns matching books ranked by historical popularity with book_id for drill-down into metadata, chapters, quotes, or full-text search. No license, no API key required.

Curated shelf of public-domain children's and young-adult classics, ranked by historical popularity. Returns title, author, year, book_id, and drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

Curated shelf of enduring public-domain classic novels and literary works, ranked by historical popularity. Returns title, author, year, book_id, and drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key — every book is public domain in the USA.

Curated shelf of public-domain economics, politics, and political-theory texts, ranked by historical popularity. Returns title, author, year, book_id, and drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

Curated shelf of public-domain gothic and horror fiction, ranked by historical popularity. Returns title, author, year, book_id, and drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

Curated shelf of public-domain history texts spanning ancient to modern periods, ranked by historical popularity. Returns title, author, year, book_id, and drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

Mints a soulbound Reader's Card NFT to the wallet that paid this call — a public-domain library patron credential on Base. One card per wallet: if this wallet already holds one, you get its existing patron number back, no duplicate mint. TESTNET ONLY for now (Base Sepolia); mainnet launches after fi

Search the indexed public-domain corpus for complete source passages with title, author, section, passage indices, and Gutenberg links. Results rank up to 400 matching candidates, not every corpus match. Retrieval only, no generated answer. Common question words are removed; remaining terms must mat

Curated shelf of public-domain philosophy and ethics texts — from ancient to early-modern thought — ranked by historical popularity. Returns title, author, year, book_id, and drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

Curated shelf of public-domain poetry collections, ranked by historical popularity. Returns title, author, year, book_id, and drill-down routes for full-text retrieval of individual poems and passages. No license, no API key required.

Curated shelf of public-domain science and natural-history works, ranked by historical popularity. Returns title, author, year, book_id, and drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required. This is a small, niche shelf within the corpus.

Curated shelf of public-domain plays and dramatic works, including Shakespeare, ranked by historical popularity. Returns title, author, year, book_id, and drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

Curated shelf: Adultery -- Fiction — 8 public-domain books including The Scarlet Letter, The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories, Anna Karenina. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

Curated reading list on Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction for tutoring agents, quiz generators, and reading apps — 296 public-domain books (e.g. The last dragon, The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries, Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope). Full-text retrieval with drill-down routes for chapters,

Curated reading list on Adventure stories for tutoring agents, quiz generators, and reading apps — 1382 public-domain books (e.g. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Yeoman Adventurer). Full-text retrieval with drill-down routes for chapters, quotes, and citations. No license, n

Curated reading list on AE for tutoring agents, quiz generators, and reading apps — 140 public-domain books (e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Banks" to "Bassoon" Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1). Fu

Curated shelf: African American Writers — 9 public-domain books including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, The Souls of Black Folk, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No licen

Curated reading list on AG for tutoring agents, quiz generators, and reading apps — 254 public-domain books (e.g. English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, Moby Multiple Language Lists of Common Words, The Nuttall encyclopædia : $b being a concise and comprehensive dictionary of general knowledge). Ful

Curated reading list on American fiction -- 19th century for tutoring agents, quiz generators, and reading apps — 199 public-domain books (e.g. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2, The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1, Cruel as the grave). Full-text retrieval with drill-down routes for chapte

Curated reading list on American fiction -- 20th century for tutoring agents, quiz generators, and reading apps — 134 public-domain books (e.g. The Dunwich horror, The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the Am

Curated reading list on American Literature for tutoring agents, quiz generators, and reading apps — 7572 public-domain books (e.g. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude). Full-text retrieva