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Every year, new authors enter the public domain and their entire oeuvre becomes part of our shared cultural heritage. This is cause for celebration, and we invite you to the party.
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James Matthew Barrie
Peter Pan
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Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Sir Thomas Malory
Le Morte d'Arthur
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Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein
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Charlotte Brontë
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Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
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Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2021
F. Scott Fitzgerald's works are in the public domain since 2021, making his iconic novels like The Great Gatsby freely accessible.
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Jack London
The Call of the Wild
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Sun Tzu
The Art of War
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Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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James Matthew Barrie
Peter Pan
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Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
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Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
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Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
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