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Gutendex (Project Gutenberg)

70,000+ free classic books with full metadata and download links.

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{
  "count": 8,
  "next": null,
  "previous": null,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 84,
      "title": "Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft",
          "birth_year": 1797,
          "death_year": 1851
        }
      ],
      "summaries": [
        "\"Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus\" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is a Gothic novel published in 1818. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a living creature from assembled body parts in an unorthodox experiment. When the creature awakens, Victor flees in horror, abandoning his creation. The conscious being must navigat

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// Gutendex (Project Gutenberg) — no build step, no library. Just fetch.
const res = await fetch("https://gutendex.com/books/?search=frankenstein");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

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