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TEXT is a dataset directory which contains some texts.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Related Data and Programs:

CHAIN_LETTERS, a dataset directory which contains several examples of chain letters.

GERMAN, a dataset directory which contains some short German texts;

NGRAMS, a dataset directory which contains information about the observed frequency of "ngrams" (particular sequences of n letters) in English text.

WORDS, a dataset directory which contains lists of words;

Datasets:

• before_the_law.txt, the text of "Before the Law" by Franz Kafka.
• carnival.txt, the text of "The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut", by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens);
• declaration_of_independence.txt, the text of the Declaration of Independence.
• desiderata.txt, the text of "Desiderata", by Max Ehrmann.
• genesis.txt, the text of the first five chapters of the Book of Genesis, in the King James version.
• gettysburg_address.txt, the text of "The Gettysburg Address", by Abraham Lincoln;
• hamlet.txt, the text of the "To be or not to be" soliloquy from "Hamlet", by William Shakespeare;
• lorem_ipsum.txt, the "Lorem Ipsum" block of text used as printer's dummy text for hundreds of years. The text was extracted from a work by Cicero, but chopped up somewhat. In particular, the opening phrase "Lorem ipsum" is actually pulled from Cicero's phrase "Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet,...";
• major_general.txt, the text of the Major-General's song from Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance".
• panjandrum.txt, the text of "The Great Panjandrum", a nonsense paragraph given as a test to an actor who claimed he could memorize and then recite any text after a single reading.
• robinson_crusoe.txt, the text of "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe;
• sonnets.txt, the text of the sonnets of William Shakespeare;
• the_raven.txt, the text of "The Raven", a poem by Edgar Allan Poe;

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