This is a dataset about classic readings in English, some cases other language translated to English.

Dickens, Plato, Shakespeare, you name it.

Content

• The data is in a SQLite database file.

• You can refer to this open kernel to explore the data

Tables

books

• book_id: Primary Key

• bookname: Text, Name of the book, or sometimes the name of a combination of books

• author_id: Foreign Key, index table authors

• cate_1: Text, category description, eg. English Literature, Translated Works

authors

• index: Primary Key

• author: Text, name of the author

• born: Integer, birth year, 10000 means missing value

• death: Integer, decease year, 10000 means missing value

book_files

A mapping between books and chapters

text_files

Chapters, but also contain the content of the books

• index: Primary Key

• fmt: Text, value could be txt or html

• text: Text, book contents