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91 Books foundWelcome to the EGUVO Public Domain Literature Library
This catalogue presents 91 public-domain works in philosophy, ethics, and related fields, curated for readers who value historical depth and editorial clarity. Each record is designed to help you decide quickly whether a text suits your interest, without requiring prior knowledge of the work.
Browsing the catalogue
You can browse the entire collection at /ebooks or explore by category. Two main categories organise the works: Ethics and Logic. Within each, books are listed alphabetically by title. Use the category links to narrow your search.
Understanding book records
Every book record includes the title, author(s), translator(s), editor(s), publisher (always Project Gutenberg for these editions), keywords, a target-reader note, and a catalogue note. The catalogue note is a brief editorial description that highlights the work’s style, argument, or historical context. Keywords help identify themes such as “Stoics” or “Bioethics.”
Source attribution and provenance
All books in this catalogue are sourced from Project Gutenberg, a trusted repository of public-domain texts. Bibliographic consultant Charles Melville oversaw the selection and editorial notes. Each work’s original publication date and translation history are indicated in the author and translator fields. No books have been added outside this verified corpus.
Categories as navigation aids
The categories are not definitive literary judgments but practical groupings. “Philosophy and Human Questions” gathers works on ethics, morality, and human nature across cultures and periods. “Ethics, Logic & Ideas” Catalogue maintenance uses source records and bibliographic context. A single work may touch on multiple fields, but each is placed where most readers will find it naturally.
Three practical reading paths
Path 1: Ancient foundations. Start with Xenophon’s The Symposium for Socratic dialogue, then Epictetus’s The Enchiridion for Stoic practice, and finally Confucius’s The Sayings of Confucius for Eastern ethical thought.
Path 2: Modern ethical debates. Begin with John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women, move to Schopenhauer’s The Basis of Morality, and finish with Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals.
Path 3: Logic and method. Try George Jacob Holyoake’s A Logic of Facts for accessible reasoning, then Francis Bacon’s Novum organum for inductive method, and finally Kant’s Critique of Judgement for advanced theory.
Bibliographic dates and catalogue measurements
The catalogue distinguishes the Project Gutenberg digital release from a work’s original or first publication. Project Gutenberg is identified as the digital source for the edition available here; its release year is therefore shown as Gutenberg Release Year, not as the work’s original publication year.
When an explicit first-publication or issue date can be supported directly by the title or issue information, it may be shown separately as First Publication Year. When that date cannot be confirmed, the catalogue displays Not confirmed rather than guessing a year.
Where the source text can be measured reliably, the catalogue may provide word count and estimated reading time. These measurements describe reading scope and are not quality rankings.
The current catalogue contains 4 active subject categories: Ethics, Logic, Metaphysics, and Political Philosophy. Categories are browsing aids and may overlap where a work reasonably fits more than one subject.
