Can you name the top public domain books on Library Thing?

created by johnlk

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In the United States, all works published in 1922 or before are in the public domain.
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Author	Book
Jane Austen
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Homer
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jane Austen
Leo Tolstoy
Mary Shelley
Mark Twain
Jane Austen
Homer
William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
Louisa May Alcott
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oscar Wilde
Charles Dickens
Herman Melville
Bram Stoker
William Shakespeare
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jane Austen
Hermann Hesse
Gustave Flaubert
Leo Tolstoy
Miguel de Cervantes
James Joyce
Niccolo Machiavelli
Frances Hodgson Burnett
James Joyce
Geoffrey Chaucer
Lewis Carroll
Alexandre Dumas
Dante Alighieri
Jane Austen
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
William Shakespeare
Robert Louis Stevenson
Virgil
James Joyce
Voltaire

Author	Book
Joseph Conrad
Jonathan Swift
Plato
Victor Hugo
Jane Austen
Thomas Hardy
Charles Dickens
Sun Tzu
Daniel Defoe
Lewis Carroll
Kenneth Grahame
Alexandre Dumas
Charles Dickens
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Augustine
Lao Tzu
George Eliot
William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
Dante Alighieri
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
William Makepeace Thackeray
John Bunyan
William Shakespeare
Walt Whitman
William Shakespeare
Anonymous (Anglo-Saxon)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Sophocles
H. G. Wells
L. Frank Baum
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Edith Wharton
Willa Cather
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Upton Sinclair
Kate Chopin
Charles Dickens
Edgar Allan Poe
H. G. Wells
Charles Darwin

Author	Book
Jules Verne
Ovid
Stephen Crane
Friedrich Nietzsche
William Shakespeare
Henry David Thoreau
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Frances Hodgson Burnett
J. M. Barrie
Jack London
Victor Hugo
Sir Thomas More
Henry James
Thomas Hardy
Wilkie Collins
Jules Verne
E. M. Forster
John Milton
Franz Kafka
Marcel Proust
Herodotus
Sir Walter Scott
James Fenimore Cooper
Anna Sewell
Charles Dickens
D. H. Lawrence
William Shakespeare
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Thomas Hardy
George Eliot
Gaston Leroux
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mark Twain
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Aeschylus
William Shakespeare
Edith Wharton
Jules Verne
Anonymous (Sanskrit)
E. M. Forster
Edith Wharton
Friedrich Nietzsche

Author	Book
Wilkie Collins
Edwin A. Abbott
George Eliot
Joseph Conrad
Clement Clarke Moore
Oscar Wilde
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
William Shakespeare
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Giovanni Boccaccio
Aristotle
Thomas Hardy
Johanna Spyri
Ivan Turgenev
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stendhal
Henry Fielding
William Shakespeare
Thomas Hardy
W. Somerset Maugham
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Charlotte Brontë
Nikolai Gogol
Laurence Sterne
Marcus Aurelius
Robert Louis Stevenson
Hermann Hesse
Plato
William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
Aesop
Anonymous (Akkadian)
Rudyard Kipling
H. G. Wells
D. H. Lawrence
Charles Baudelaire
Thucydides
Benjamin Franklin
Anonymous (Middle English)
Daniel Defoe

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Contributed: December 13th, 2009
Category: Literature
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Tags: Book Quizzes, Novel Quizzes, author, top, thing, domain, library, public, librarything, Editor Pick

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	johnlk:	Dec 13th, 2009 at 23:56 GMT	4 points
	This list proved to be a pretty solid list of "Classic" works of literature, so I thought it would be an interesting quiz. As I say in the note, this is of works published in 1922 or before. Authors that spanned the time period include Joyce, Kafka, Lawrence, Forster, and Fitzgerald, so some of their most famous works may not be on here as being too late.

	AlexRandom:	Dec 14th, 2009 at 02:33 GMT	0 points
	Very interesting and fun quiz, but it is impossible to complete in 20 minutes. I think 25 or even 30 would be more realistic. Otherwise, maybe cut it to the first 100 books only and give 15 minutes.

	johnlk:	Dec 14th, 2009 at 03:46 GMT	1 point
	I would give more time, but 20 is the maximum. It's certainly physically possible to type in all the answers in 20 minutes - I just went through and did it in less than 10, but I'm a fast typer and obviously knew the answers already. Maybe it would help if I didn't force you to guess the answers in order? Would that make it easier?

	Tyrael:	Dec 14th, 2009 at 04:12 GMT	5 points
	I do not see the imperative of having to answer them individually and in order. I think it would be much easier if that restriction were removed. Very good and comprehensive quiz!

	Mr_Snagsby:	Dec 14th, 2009 at 04:36 GMT	3 points
	Good quiz. I think it would be much more possible to finish if we didn't have to answer in order.

	debaser_1985:	Dec 14th, 2009 at 09:27 GMT	1 point
	Yeah agree that it'd be better if the answers didn't have to be entered in order. Otherwise things like the Shakespeare and Dickens become v tricky; you can guess the most popular ones but when it gets which is the 7th or 8th most owned Shakespeare book it's rather random! Also, could maybe do with something like the year (or at least century) for the anonymous ones.

	johnlk:	Dec 14th, 2009 at 13:44 GMT	2 points
	Okay, will change it. I'll give the language for the anonymous ones.

	imclala:	Jan 14th, 2010 at 17:58 GMT	3 points
	Wow, great quiz. I'm proud I got so many, including nearly all of the Shakespeare ones. There are some I'm mad at myself for missing. I got Metamorphosis, but missed Metamorphoses. Wishbone helped me out with quite a few of these. I need to read more.

	penguinflying:	Jan 25th, 2011 at 08:06 GMT	1 point
	Could you maybe accept something like "The Trial and Death of Socrates"? That's how I had it (in book form).

	HappyClamski:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 02:37 GMT	4 points
	This is a good quiz. My only recommendation is to do something with the "Complete"s (i.e. Shakespeare, Poe, and Sherlock.) I spent a while guessing more and more obscure Shakespeare plays before I gave up. And I tried to guess wording for the Poe one (after I tried House of Usher.) Maybe make it light up if you get one of the included stories/plays?

	dollymix:	Jan 28th, 2011 at 22:29 GMT	2 points
	Another possibility for the collections would be an asterisk that indicates it as such. Alternatively, just remove them from the quiz and specify that they're not included in the notes. Also, could you accept just "Peloponnesian War"? I spent forever trying to figure out the spelling before giving up. Anyway, great quiz, good mix of well-remembered and less-remembered stuff.

	ICole1987:	Mar 18th, 2011 at 04:18 GMT	1 point
	Excellent quiz, although I'm afraid my stack of "to read" books is now much taller than my house ;)

	Pit_trout:	Apr 29th, 2011 at 21:36 GMT	1 point
	With the “Complete”s, maybe accept more alternate wordings? eg “complete shakespeare” as well as “complete works of shakespeare”, and so on.

Can you name the top public domain books on Library Thing?

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