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Beyond the Public Domain

A separate bookstore of specific retail modern translations, annotated editions, and illustrated ebook editions of public-domain texts.

Modern translations and editorial matter may be copyrighted even when the original text is public domain. Some historical illustrations are themselves public domain; copyright status belongs to the individual material and edition.

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Modern Translations

These specific modern English translations are copyrighted: their full texts are not in the public domain. Older public-domain English translations exist for some of the same works, but they are different from the editions listed here.

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Annotated Classics

Carefully curated editions featuring extensive editorial notes, contextual essays, and scholarly annotations of public-domain originals.

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  • The Annotated Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen

    Editor/Annotator: David M. Shapard · Edition: Revised and Expanded ebook edition

  • The Annotated Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen

    Editor/Annotator: David M. Shapard · Edition: Ebook edition

  • The Annotated Persuasion — Jane Austen

    Editor/Annotator: David M. Shapard · Edition: Ebook edition

  • The Annotated Mansfield Park — Jane Austen

    Editor/Annotator: David M. Shapard · Edition: Ebook edition

  • The Annotated Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen

    Editor/Annotator: David M. Shapard · Edition: Ebook edition

  • The New Annotated Frankenstein — Mary Shelley

    Editor/Annotator: Leslie S. Klinger · Edition: Ebook edition

  • Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds — Mary Shelley

    Editor/Annotator: David H. Guston, Ed Finn & Jason Scott Robert · Edition: Ebook edition

  • The Annotated Little Women — Louisa May Alcott

    Editor/Annotator: John Matteson · Edition: Ebook edition

  • The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Adventures and Memoirs — Arthur Conan Doyle

    Editor/Annotator: Leslie S. Klinger · Edition: Ebook edition

  • The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Return, His Last Bow and The Case-Book — Arthur Conan Doyle

    Editor/Annotator: Leslie S. Klinger · Edition: Ebook edition

  • The Annotated Peter Pan — J. M. Barrie

    Editor/Annotator: Maria Tatar · Edition: Centennial ebook edition

  • The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft — H. P. Lovecraft

    Editor/Annotator: Leslie S. Klinger · Edition: Ebook edition

  • The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham — H. P. Lovecraft

    Editor/Annotator: Leslie S. Klinger · Edition: Ebook edition

Illustrated Classics

Specific retail illustrated ebook editions of public-domain texts, with illustrator credits and edition details recorded individually; historical illustrations may themselves be public domain.

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  • Moby-Dick — Herman Melville

    Illustrator: Rockwell Kent · Edition: Illustrated ebook edition

  • Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson

    Illustrator: N. C. Wyeth · Edition: Illustrated ebook edition

  • Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe

    Illustrator: N. C. Wyeth · Edition: Illustrated ebook edition

  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll

    Illustrator: Arthur Rackham · Edition: Illustrated ebook edition

  • Gulliver's Travels — Jonathan Swift

    Illustrator: Arthur Rackham · Edition: Illustrated ebook edition

  • Aesop's Fables Illustrated — Aesop

    Illustrator: Arthur Rackham & Walter Crane · Edition: Illustrated ebook edition

  • Grimm's Fairy Tales — Brothers Grimm

    Illustrator: Arthur Rackham · Edition: Illustrated ebook edition

  • The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame

    Illustrator: Arthur Rackham · Edition: Illustrated ebook edition

  • A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens

    Illustrator: Arthur Rackham · Edition: Illustrated ebook edition

  • Tales of Mystery and Imagination — Edgar Allan Poe

    Illustrator: Harry Clarke · Edition: Illustrated ebook edition

  • Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales — Hans Christian Andersen

    Illustrator: Kay Nielsen · Edition: Illustrated ebook edition

  • Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories — Brothers Grimm

    Illustrator: Kay Nielsen · Edition: Illustrated ebook edition

  • Stories from the Arabian Nights — Laurence Housman

    Illustrator: Edmund Dulac · Edition: Illustrated ebook edition

  • The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French — Arthur Quiller-Couch

    Illustrator: Edmund Dulac · Edition: Illustrated ebook edition

  • The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales — Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora A. Smith

    Illustrator: Maxfield Parrish · Edition: Illustrated ebook edition

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