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Public Domain Literature: School & Friendship, Fairy Tales, Future Societies, Historical

This library maps 98 public-domain works across four interlinked categories. Adventure tales often shade into moral instruction; fairy tales and speculative fiction frequently share a didactic edge; historical and psychological fiction can overlap with both. The categories are entry points, not rigid shelves. Three reading paths suggest ways to move between them: start with G. A. Henty's colonial warfare, contrast with medieval chivalry, and finish with a nautical rescue; or follow Verne's underwater voyage to Wells's airborne war and Hamilton's floating cities; or trace integrity from Horatio Alger to L. T. Meade's London resilience and Oliver Optic's cabin boy. Each record includes bibliographic details, keywords, and a catalogue note on narrative voice and structure.