Editions & sources
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · First published 1865
The Millennium Fulcrum Edition 3.0. All twelve chapters. Illustrations omitted; original paragraph anchors retained. Section and passage navigation added by Primer.
Public domain in the United States; other territories have not been reviewed.
Source acknowledgment: Project Gutenberg, ebook 11. Transcription credits: Arthur DiBianca and David Widger. Primer is an independent project and is not endorsed by Project Gutenberg.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · First published 1886
English text, ten chapters. All ten chapters; illustrations omitted. Section and passage navigation added by Primer.
Public domain in the United States; other territories have not been reviewed.
Source acknowledgment: Project Gutenberg, ebook 43. Transcription credits: David Widger. Primer is an independent project and is not endorsed by Project Gutenberg.
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · First published 1818
1818 text, three volumes. Includes the original preface, four letters, and all 23 chapters. Illustrations and title-page matter omitted. Section and passage navigation added by Primer.
Public domain in the United States; other territories have not been reviewed.
Source acknowledgment: Project Gutenberg, ebook 41445. Transcription credits: Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Revised by Richard Tonsing.. Primer is an independent project and is not endorsed by Project Gutenberg.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · First published 1890
Expanded 1891 novel. Includes Wilde’s preface and all twenty chapters. Section and passage navigation added by Primer.
Public domain in the United States; other territories have not been reviewed.
Source acknowledgment: Project Gutenberg, ebook 174. Transcription credits: Judith Boss. HTML version by Al Haines.. Primer is an independent project and is not endorsed by Project Gutenberg.
Hamlet
William Shakespeare · First published 1603
English text, Gutenberg edition 1524. Includes the cast and all twenty scenes, preserving speakers, stage directions, and verse lines. Not identified as a particular quarto or Folio edition. Section and passage navigation added by Primer.
Public domain in the United States; other territories have not been reviewed.
Source acknowledgment: Project Gutenberg, ebook 1524. Transcription credits: Dianne Bean. Primer is an independent project and is not endorsed by Project Gutenberg.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · First published 180
George Long translation. All twelve books of the translated main text. Editorial biography, philosophy essay, footnotes, and indexes omitted. Original date is approximate. Section and passage navigation added by Primer.
Public domain in the United States; other territories have not been reviewed.
Source acknowledgment: Project Gutenberg, ebook 15877. Transcription credits: Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Turgut Dincer, Leonard Johnson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net.. Primer is an independent project and is not endorsed by Project Gutenberg.
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens · First published 1859
English text, three books. All 45 chapters across three books; illustrations omitted. Section and passage navigation added by Primer.
Public domain in the United States; other territories have not been reviewed.
Source acknowledgment: Project Gutenberg, ebook 98. Transcription credits: Judith Boss and David Widger. Primer is an independent project and is not endorsed by Project Gutenberg.
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