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The Grand Archive
The open holding: every public-domain volume we have, unedited and unranked. Browse it by subject or by author, or search the whole of it below.
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Six subjects, an author hand list, and a reading ranking. There is no browse-by-date here: the archive's publication dates were never recorded, and a shelf label the catalogue cannot support is worse than none.
- Religion3,297 volumesScripture, commentary, church history, comparative religion, and the long argument between them.
- Philosophy2,187 volumesEthics, metaphysics, logic, and political thought, from the Greeks to the moderns.
- Islamic64 volumesWorks on Islam held in the open archive, beside the curated Islamic holdings elsewhere on the site.
- History17,031 volumesChronicles, memoirs, correspondence, and the historians who assembled them.
- Science6,872 volumesNatural philosophy, medicine, mathematics, and the observational record.
- General16,663 volumesLiterature, travel, biography, and everything the older classifications did not name.
- Authors, A–Z15,886 namesThe whole hand list, by initial, from Abbott to Zwingli — every name that appears on a volume in the archive.
- Most readThe sixty volumes readers open most, ranked by Project Gutenberg's own download counter.
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