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Public Domain Books API

The world's free library, searchable. The complete Project Gutenberg catalog — 78,037 public-domain ebooks in 56 languages — with full-text search over titles, authors AND Library of Congress subjects ('pride and prejudice' → Gutenberg #1342; 'detective fiction' → 1,190 books), author and language filters (Jules Verne in French: 47 works), parsed display authors ('Austen, Jane, 1775-1817' becomes 'Jane Austen'), subjects, LoC classes and curated bookshelves. Every book ships with ready-to-use links: the Gutenberg landing page, plain-text and EPUB downloads, and a cover image — all from Gutenberg's stable cache layout (verified live). A random endpoint (optionally per language) powers book-of-the-day features, and detail responses include more works by the same author (Moby Dick → Typee, and the rest of Melville). Reading apps, e-ink devices, education platforms, language-learning tools, literary games and AI training corpora — the classics, one API call away.

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response.json

{
  "ok": true,
  "book": {
    "id": 2701,
    "title": "Moby Dick; Or, The Whale",
    "authors": "Melville, Herman, 1819-1891",
    "first_author": "Herman Melville",
    "language": "en",
    "issued": "2001-07-01",
    "subjects": "Whaling -- Fiction; Sea stories; Psychological fiction; Ship captains -- Fiction; Adventure stories; Mentally ill -- Fiction; Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Whales -- Fiction; Whaling ships -- Fiction",
    "locc": "PS",
    "bookshelves": "Best Books Ever Listings; Category: Adventure; Category: Novels; Category: Classics of Literature; Category: American Literature",
    "links": {
      "gutenberg_url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701",
      "text": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2701/pg2701.txt",
      "epub": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2701/pg2701-images.epub",
      "cover": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2701/pg2701.cover.medium.jpg"
    }
  },
  "more_by_author": [
    {
      "id": 15,
      "title": "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale",
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": 1900,
      "title": "Typee: A Romance of the South Seas",
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": 2489,
      "title": "Moby Dick; Or, The Whale",
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": 2694,
      "title": "I and My Chimney",
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": 4045,
      "title": "Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas",
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": 8118,
      "title": "Redburn. His First Voyage Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-Of-A-Gentleman in the Merchant Navy",
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": 10712,
      "title": "White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War",
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": 11231,
      "title": "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street",
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": 12384,
      "title": "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War",
      "language": "en"
    },
    {
      "id": 12841,
      "title": "John Marr and Other Poems",
      "language": "en"
    }
  ],
  "note": "Download links are constructed from Gutenberg's stable cache layout; a rare title may lack a given format."
}

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