Public Domain Works

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United States Congress1791
Bill of Rights
10 sections

Type through the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, one amendment at a time.

462 words2,654 characters

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J. Lesslie Hall1892
Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
73 sections

Type through J. Lesslie Hall's translation of Beowulf in practice-sized passages spanning all forty-three sections.

24348 words146,673 characters

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Homerc. 8th century BCE
The Iliad
383 sections

Type through Homer's epic in practice-sized passages spanning all twenty-four books of Samuel Butler's prose translation.

152639 words808,362 characters

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Homerc. 8th century BCE
The Odyssey
272 sections

Type through Homer's epic in practice-sized passages spanning all twenty-four books of Alexander Pope's translation.

110925 words636,813 characters

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Frederick Douglass1845
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
105 sections

Type through Frederick Douglass's memoir in practice-sized passages spanning the preface, letter, eleven chapters, and appendix material.

40348 words221,338 characters

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Jane Austen1813
Pride and Prejudice
306 sections

Type through Jane Austen's novel in practice-sized passages spanning all sixty-one chapters.

124486 words703,057 characters

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Mark Twain1884
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
277 sections

Type through Mark Twain's novel in practice-sized passages spanning all forty-two chapters.

112721 words579,828 characters

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William Shakespearec. 1595
Romeo and Juliet
66 sections

Type through Shakespeare's tragedy in practice-sized passages spanning the prologue and every act and scene.

25622 words140,102 characters

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William Shakespearec. 1606
Macbeth
51 sections

Type through Shakespeare's tragedy in practice-sized passages spanning every act and scene.

18014 words102,026 characters

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William Shakespearec. 1600
Hamlet
80 sections

Type through Shakespeare's tragedy in practice-sized passages spanning every act and scene.

31697 words175,763 characters

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley1818
Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
186 sections

Type through Mary Shelley's novel in practice-sized passages spanning all four letters and twenty-four chapters.

74919 words418,192 characters

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Bram Stoker1897
Dracula
397 sections

Type through Bram Stoker's novel in practice-sized passages spanning the preface and all twenty-seven chapters.

161073 words838,467 characters

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Thomas Hobbes1651
Leviathan
552 sections

Type through Thomas Hobbes's treatise in practice-sized passages spanning the introduction and all forty-seven chapters.

211534 words1,197,405 characters

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Nathaniel Hawthorne1850
The Scarlet Letter
225 sections

Type through Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel in practice-sized passages spanning the preface, the Custom-House introduction, and all twenty-four chapters.

83027 words481,556 characters

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F. Scott Fitzgerald1925
The Great Gatsby
106 sections

Type through all nine chapters of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, one chapter at a time.

48118 words267,789 characters

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