# Book texts: sources and rights

Written by `_tooling/texts_fetch.py`; do not edit by hand. Every text below is in the public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (the author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA (published before 1931, or stated as public domain in the USA by Project Gutenberg). Texts come only from Project Gutenberg and Wikisource.

Project Gutenberg: the texts are used without the Project Gutenberg trademark, so its header, footer and licence are removed, as the PG trademark terms require. Wikisource: the texts are public domain; Wikisource’s own editorial layer is CC BY-SA 4.0, and is credited here with a link to the page used.

| Book | Author | Source | Edition, translator | Retrieved | Rights basis | Chapters | Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `pride` Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | [Project Gutenberg #1342](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342) | George Allen, London, 1894 (illustrated by Hugh Thomson); the text of the 1813 novel | 2026-10-28 | Jane Austen died 1817; first published 1813. Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 61 | 121,547 |
| `prophet` The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran | [Project Gutenberg #58585](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58585) | Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1923 (first edition) | 2026-10-28 | Kahlil Gibran died 1931; first published 1923 (US copyright expired 1 January 2019). Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 28 | 12,282 |
| `gatsby` The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | [Project Gutenberg #64317](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64317) | Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1925 | 2026-10-28 | F. Scott Fitzgerald died 1940; first published 1925 (US copyright expired 1 January 2021). Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 9 | 48,193 |
| `dalloway` Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | [Project Gutenberg #71865](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71865) | Harcourt, Brace & World, New York (text of the 1925 first US edition) | 2026-10-28 | Virginia Woolf died 1941; first published 1925 (US copyright expired 1 January 2021). Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 9 | 63,389 |
| `moby` Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | [Project Gutenberg #2701](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701) | Harper & Brothers, New York, 1851 (Project Gutenberg text) | 2026-10-28 | Herman Melville died 1891; first published 1851. Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 136 | 207,787 |
| `two-cities` A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | [Project Gutenberg #98](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/98) | Chapman and Hall, London, 1859 | 2026-10-28 | Charles Dickens died 1870; first published 1859. Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 45 | 135,458 |
| `alice` Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | [Project Gutenberg #11](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11) | Macmillan, London, 1865 (the “Millennium Fulcrum Edition 3.0” text) | 2026-10-28 | Lewis Carroll died 1898; first published 1865. Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 12 | 26,336 |
| `dorian` The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | [Project Gutenberg #174](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/174) | Ward, Lock and Co., London, 1891 (the 20-chapter book edition, with Wilde’s preface) | 2026-10-28 | Oscar Wilde died 1900; first published 1890–91. Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 21 | 78,884 |
| `frankenstein` Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | [Project Gutenberg #41445](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445) | Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, London, 1818 (first edition, three volumes) | 2026-10-28 | Mary Shelley died 1851; first published 1818. Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 27 | 71,852 |
| `anna` Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | [Project Gutenberg #1399](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1399) | Translated by Constance Garnett (William Heinemann, London, 1901) | 2026-10-28 | Leo Tolstoy died 1910; Constance Garnett (translator) died 1946; the translation was published 1901. Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 239 | 349,258 |
| `meditations` Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | [Project Gutenberg #15877](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15877) | The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, translated by George Long (1862; revised edition) | 2026-10-28 | Marcus Aurelius died AD 180; George Long (translator) died 1879; the translation was published 1862. Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 12 | 46,023 |
| `art-of-war` The Art of War | Sun Tzu | [Project Gutenberg #132](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/132) | Translated by Lionel Giles (Luzac & Co., London, 1910) | 2026-10-28 | Sun Tzu wrote c. 500 BC; Lionel Giles (translator) died 1958; the translation was published 1910. Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 13 | 10,649 |
| `leaves` Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | [Wikisource Leaves of Grass (1855)](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass_%281855%29) | The first edition, Brooklyn, New York, 1855 (proofread scans on Wikisource) | 2026-10-28 | Walt Whitman died 1892; first published 1855. Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 13 | 40,577 |
| `broken-wings` الأجنحة المتكسرة | جبران خليل جبران | [Wikisource الأجنحة المتكسرة](https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%AD%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A9) | Kahlil Gibran, al-Ajniha al-Mutakassira (Mirʾat al-Gharb, New York, 1912) | 2026-10-28 | Kahlil Gibran died 1931; first published 1912. Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 11 | 16,002 |
| `kalila` كليلة ودمنة | عبد الله بن المقفع | [Wikisource كليلة ودمنة](https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A9) | Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ’s Arabic version (8th century); the typed Wikisource text, in nineteen chapters (أبواب) | 2026-10-28 | Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ died c. 759. Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 19 | 45,154 |
| `hayy` حي بن يقظان | ابن طفيل | [Wikisource حي بن يقظان](https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%86) | Ibn Ṭufayl, Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān (12th century); the Wikisource transcription | 2026-10-28 | Ibn Ṭufayl died 1185. Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 8 | 18,301 |
| `bukhala` البخلاء | الجاحظ | [Wikisource البخلاء](https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%AE%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A1) | Al-Jāḥiẓ, Kitāb al-Bukhalāʾ (9th century); the Wikisource transcription | 2026-10-28 | Al-Jāḥiẓ died 868/869. Public domain in Egypt and Saudi Arabia (author’s life + 50 years) and in the USA. | 12 | 48,776 |

## Changes made, per book

- **`pride`** (edition check: Pride and Prejudice · Jane Austen). Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed (required by the PG trademark terms when the trademark is not used); front matter, contents and illustrations dropped; hard line breaks unwrapped; “--” made into dashes, italics kept, straight quotes made typographic; split into chapters.
- **`prophet`** (edition check: The Prophet · Kahlil Gibran). Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed (required by the PG trademark terms when the trademark is not used); front matter, contents and illustrations dropped; hard line breaks unwrapped; “--” made into dashes, italics kept, straight quotes made typographic; split into chapters.
- **`gatsby`** (edition check: The Great Gatsby · F. Scott Fitzgerald). Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed (required by the PG trademark terms when the trademark is not used); front matter, contents and illustrations dropped; hard line breaks unwrapped; “--” made into dashes, italics kept, straight quotes made typographic; split into chapters.
- **`dalloway`** (edition check: Mrs. Dalloway · Virginia Woolf). Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed (required by the PG trademark terms when the trademark is not used); front matter, contents and illustrations dropped; hard line breaks unwrapped; “--” made into dashes, italics kept, straight quotes made typographic; split into chapters. Woolf’s novel has no chapters; it is divided at the edition’s section breaks, and long sections are cut at paragraph breaks.
- **`moby`** (edition check: Moby Dick; Or, The Whale · Herman Melville). Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed (required by the PG trademark terms when the trademark is not used); front matter, contents and illustrations dropped; hard line breaks unwrapped; “--” made into dashes, italics kept, straight quotes made typographic; split into chapters. The opening “Etymology” and “Extracts” are left out; the reader starts at Chapter 1.
- **`two-cities`** (edition check: A Tale of Two Cities · Charles Dickens). Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed (required by the PG trademark terms when the trademark is not used); front matter, contents and illustrations dropped; hard line breaks unwrapped; “--” made into dashes, italics kept, straight quotes made typographic; split into chapters.
- **`alice`** (edition check: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · Lewis Carroll). Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed (required by the PG trademark terms when the trademark is not used); front matter, contents and illustrations dropped; hard line breaks unwrapped; “--” made into dashes, italics kept, straight quotes made typographic; split into chapters.
- **`dorian`** (edition check: The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde). Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed (required by the PG trademark terms when the trademark is not used); front matter, contents and illustrations dropped; hard line breaks unwrapped; “--” made into dashes, italics kept, straight quotes made typographic; split into chapters.
- **`frankenstein`** (edition check: Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley). Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed (required by the PG trademark terms when the trademark is not used); front matter, contents and illustrations dropped; hard line breaks unwrapped; “--” made into dashes, italics kept, straight quotes made typographic; split into chapters. The 1818 first edition: four letters, then three volumes with their own chapter numbers. The anonymous preface is left out.
- **`anna`** (edition check: Anna Karenina · graf Leo Tolstoy · tr. Constance Garnett). Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed (required by the PG trademark terms when the trademark is not used); front matter, contents and illustrations dropped; hard line breaks unwrapped; “--” made into dashes, italics kept, straight quotes made typographic; split into chapters.
- **`meditations`** (edition check: Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus · Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius · tr. George Long). Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed (required by the PG trademark terms when the trademark is not used); front matter, contents and illustrations dropped; hard line breaks unwrapped; “--” made into dashes, italics kept, straight quotes made typographic; split into chapters. Long’s biographical sketch, essay, footnotes and indexes are left out; the twelve books of the Thoughts are kept.
- **`art-of-war`** (edition check: The Art of War · active 6th century B.C. Sunzi · tr. Lionel Giles). Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed (required by the PG trademark terms when the trademark is not used); front matter, contents and illustrations dropped; hard line breaks unwrapped; “--” made into dashes, italics kept, straight quotes made typographic; split into chapters. Only Giles’s translation is kept; his commentary and that of the Chinese commentators (in square brackets) is left out.
- **`leaves`** (edition check: Leaves of Grass (1855)). Wikisource headers, navigation and page numbers removed; line breaks of the verse kept; straight quotes made typographic; split into the preface and the twelve poems. The 1855 poems have no titles: each is named by its first line, as on Wikisource.
- **`broken-wings`** (edition check: الأجنحة المتكسرة). Wikisource headers, navigation, page numbers and references removed; whitespace normalised (Arabic diacritics kept); very long paragraphs divided at sentence ends; split into chapters.
- **`kalila`** (edition check: كليلة ودمنة). Wikisource headers, navigation, page numbers and references removed; whitespace normalised (Arabic diacritics kept); very long paragraphs divided at sentence ends; split into chapters. The plan named the page “كليلة ودمنة (الأميرية، 1937)”, but that transcription is unproofread OCR with page numbers and footnotes run into the text, so the cleaner typed page “كليلة ودمنة” on the same site is used instead.
- **`hayy`** (edition check: حي بن يقظان). Wikisource headers, navigation, page numbers and references removed; whitespace normalised (Arabic diacritics kept); very long paragraphs divided at sentence ends; split into chapters. Wikisource gives the story and the closing address without the opening letter; the text has no divisions, so it is cut into eight parts at paragraph breaks.
- **`bukhala`** (edition check: البخلاء). Wikisource headers, navigation, page numbers and references removed; whitespace normalised (Arabic diacritics kept); very long paragraphs divided at sentence ends; split into chapters. Split at the Wikisource section headings (the page marks only some of the sections listed in its contents); long sections are cut at paragraph breaks; editors’ note numbers removed.

## Glosses

The `gloss.js` files (where present) are short factual notes written for Maktoob, not taken from any source text.

## Not fetched

- `muqaddimah`, `nights`, `shawqiyyat`, `nazarat`: too large or not cleanly structured on the allowed sources; they show “Coming soon”.
- `al-ayyam`: not fetched (open point 13); it stays sample-only.