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The Public Domain Core Collection consists of over 50 public domain titles.
This book is a practical guide to adapting or creating open textbooks using the Pressbooks platform. It is continually evolving as new information, practices and processes are developed. The primary audience for this book is community members at Ryerson University, Ontario who are interested in creating Open Educational Resources; however,...→
Ryerson University
This book was created at Toronto Metropolitan University for use in Pressbooks training sessions. If you are a TMU faculty member who would like to create your own book, please contact pressbooks@torontomu.ca→
Toronto Metropolitan University
A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)—full title A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, Of the most Remarkable Occurrences, As well Publick as Private, which happened in London During the last Great Visitation In 1665—is a book by English writer and journalist Daniel Defoe. The novel is an...→
Daniel Defoe
Written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729, A Modest Proposal—full title A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick—is a satirical essay which mocks the heartless attitudes towards the...→
Dr. Jonathan Swift
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Sally Wilson
Gertrude Stein
Jennifer Lapum; Oona St-Amant; Charlene Ronquillo; Michelle Hughes;
Bram Stoker
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley. The novel follows Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who, using unorthodox scientific experiments, creates a sapient creature. At just 18 years old Shelley began writing the novel which was later published anonymously in London in...→
Mary Shelley