This page is a listing of all the texts uploaded into the poem generator Gnoetry, as of Feb 2006. The list was prepared by Christy Dena, from the various publications at Beard of Bees, for the interview with Eric Elshtain and Jon Trowbridge. There are seventy-two (72) single-author texts listed here, with other misc. ones listed second. They were all selected for input into Gnoetry by Jon Trowbridge. The list is approved by Eric Elshtain for publication here.

  • The Bible (King James Version)
  • Unknown: The Apocrypha
  • Unknown: The Life and Doctrine of Saint Catherine of Genoa
  • A. Maude Royden’s Sex and Common-Sense
  • Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles
  • Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sign of the Four
  • Booker T. Washington’s Up From Slavery
  • Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
  • Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
  • Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities
  • Charles Dickens’ Hard Times
  • Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist
  • Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year
  • Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy (Trans. by H. W. Longfellow)
  • Dante Alighieri’s Inferno
  • Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher
  • Edgar Allan Poe’s ???The Masque of the Red Death???
  • Edith Wharton???s The Custom of the Country
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
  • Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
  • Feodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground
  • Frank Herbert’s Dune
  • H. G. Wells’ The First Men In The Moon
  • Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
  • Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
  • H. G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau
  • H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine
  • Horatio Alger Jr.’s Joe The Hotel Boy
  • Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
  • Isaac Asimov’s Foundation
  • Isaac Asimov’s Foundation and Empire
  • Isaac Asimov’s Second Foundation
  • Jack London’s Call of the Wild
  • James Joyce’s Dubliners
  • Jane Austen’s Emma
  • J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
  • John Buchan’s Prester John
  • John Milton’s Paradise Lost
  • Joseph Conrad’s A Set of Six
  • Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
  • Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim
  • Joseph Conrad’s Tales of Unrest
  • Joseph Conrad’s The Mirror of the Sea
  • Joseph Conrad’s The Rescue
  • Joseph Conrad’s Tomorrow
  • Joseph Conrad’s Twixt Land and Sea
  • Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island
  • Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
  • Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn
  • Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein
  • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol’s Taras Bulba and Other Tales
  • Philip K. Dick’s The Divine Invasion
  • Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep
  • Raymond Chandler’s The High Window
  • Raymond Chandler’s The Little Sister
  • Raymond Chandler’s The Simple Art of Murder
  • Raymond Chandler’s Farewell My Lovely
  • Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island
  • Sax Rohmer’s The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
  • Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage
  • Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
  • Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising
  • Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class
  • William Gibson’s Burning Chrome
  • William Gibson’s Count Zero
  • William Gibson’s Mona Lisa Overdrive
  • William Gibson’s Neuromancer

Misc. & Various Authors & collections:

  • Misc. Rap Lyrics, Various Artists (The Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive);
  • Reuters newswire stories;
  • Complete lyrics of Bob Dylan;
  • A Sampling of Amateur Internet Erotica, Various Authors.