This page lists the public domain works published at the Monadnock Valley Press, in reverse chronological order. Note that we tend to publish relatively short works (essays, novellas, plays, dialogues, speeches, poems), which are easier to read online than long novels and treatises.
2013-05-29: Five poems by Shelley: The Cloud, Ode to Liberty, Music, When Soft Voices Die, Ozymandias, and To a Skylark
2013-04-28: In Memoriam A. H. H. by Alfred Tennyson
2013-04-28: Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau
2013-04-28: Thoreau by Charles Ives
2013-04-27: Below the Battle and H.L. Mencken by Randolph Bourne
2013-03-09: Seven poems by Alfred Tennyson: Break, Break, Break, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Crossing the Bar, Ring Out, Wild Bells, Tears, Idle Tears, Tithonus, and Ulysses
2013-03-08: The Dodging of Pressures by Randolph Bourne
2013-02-26: In celebration of Victor Hugo's birthday, published four poems in his honor: To Victor Hugo by Alfred Tennyson and To Victor Hugo (1866), To Victor Hugo (1876), and Victor Hugo in 1877 by Algernon Charles Swinburne
2013-01-04: The Necessity of Atheism by Percy Bysshe Shelley
2013-01-03: The Masque of Anarchy and Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
2013-01-03: A Free Man's Worship by Bertrand Russell
2012-12-07: For the Feast of Giordano Bruno, Philosopher and Martyr and The Monument of Giordano Bruno by Algernon Charles Swinburne, along with Lucretius and Two Voices by Alfred Tennyson
2012-11-25: The Maxims of François de La Rochefoucauld
2012-10-09: The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián
2012-09-30: Alexander the Oracle-Monger and Hermotimus or The Rival Philosophers by Lucian
2012-07-25: The Craftsman by Rudyard Kipling
2012-07-12: A Walk to Wachusett by Henry David Thoreau
2012-07-10: Of the Sense of Propriety by Adam Smith
2012-07-05: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass
2012-06-22: The Enchiridion of Epictetus
2012-05-27: A Summary View of the Rights of British America by Thomas Jefferson
2012-04-15: Three poems in Sapphic meter: Come, Let Us Sound With Melody by Thomas Campion, Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity by William Cowper, and Sapphics by Algernon Charles Swinburne
2012-04-13: The Lighthouse Keeper by Henryk Sienkiewicz
2012-03-19: John Brown by Frederick Douglass
2012-03-18: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass
2012-02-13: Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln by Frederick Douglass
2012-02-07: Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather
2012-02-07: Lady Susan by Jane Austen
2012-01-09: The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
2011-12-21: The Concord Hymn by Emerson
2011-12-21: Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
2011-12-21: Three essays by George Santayana: English Liberty in America, The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy, and Lucretius
2011-10-07: The Junto by Benjamin Franklin
2011-10-02: The Bohemian Girl by Willa Cather
2011-09-16: The Letter to Menoeceus by Epicurus
2011-09-04: Two essays by Frédéric Bastiat: The Broken Window and The Candlemakers' Petition
2011-09-04: The Opinion against the Constitutionality of a National Bank by Thomas Jefferson
2011-09-03: Two letters by Thomas Jefferson, to Isaac McPherson (on patents and copyrights) and to William Short (on Epicurus)
2011-09-03: Fourteen poems by Emily Dickinson
2011-08-29: Review of Thoreau's Walden by George Eliot
2011-08-27: Letters on the English by Voltaire
2011-08-21: On the Chief Good and Evil by Cicero
2011-08-07: Translations of four poems by Sappho
2011-07-31: Of Friendship by Francis Bacon and the Second Treatise on Government by John Locke
2011-07-04: What Is an American by J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur, Information to Those Who Would Remove to America by Benjamin Franklin, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry, and On Being an American by H.L. Mencken
2011-05-14: Selected Fragments by Epicurus
2011-04-23: A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
2011-02-09: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
2011-01-24: On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings and What Makes a Life Significant by William James
2011-01-23: If— by Rudyard Kipling, and What Life Means to Me by Jack London
2011-01-20: the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
2011-01-01: Vatican Sayings by Epicurus
2010-11-28: Self-Made Men by Frederick Douglass
2010-11-22: Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
2010-11-21: Historia Calamitatum by Peter Abélard
2010-11-20: Eric Hermannson's Soul by Willa Cather
2010-11-14: Thirteen odes by Horace
2010-11-03: Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
2010-10-31: Preface to Cromwell by Victor Hugo
2010-10-24: On Friendship by Cicero
2010-10-23: Four works by Mark Twain: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, What Is Man?, and Eve's Diary; plus two Twain-influenced works by H.L. Mencken: Twain's Americanism and The American Credo
2010-10-22: The Fair Singer by Andrew Marvell
2010-09-30: Walking by Henry David Thoreau
2010-01-02: The original (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
2009-12-30: The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns by Benjamin Constant
2009-12-30: The Right to Ignore the State by Herbert Spencer
2009-12-30: Common Sense by Thomas Paine
2009-12-26: Of Friendship by Michel de Montaigne, along with the Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by his friend Étienne de La Boétie
2009-12-08: The Jefferson Bible, collected by Thomas Jefferson
2009-11-29: The Sonnets of Shakespeare
2009-11-01: The original version of The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
2009-03-19: Three early poetry collections by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval
2009-03-17: On the Origin of Money by Carl Menger
2009-03-17: Areopagitica by John Milton
2009-03-16: Three essays by Randolph Bourne: The Excitement of Friendship, The War and the Intellectuals, and War is the Health of the State
2009-01-01: Principal Doctrines by Epicurus
2008-06-15: No Treason by Lysander Spooner
2008-06-07: Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman
2008-06-06: The Gray Champion by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2008-06-01: Three more essays by Henry David Thoreau: Life Without Principle, A Plea for Captain John Brown, and Slavery in Massachusetts
2008-05-18: Three poetry collections by Edna St. Vincent Millay: Renascence and Other Poems, A Few Figs from Thistles, and Second April
2008-01-20: The remainder of Essays: First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect, and Art
2008-01-19: History, Monadnoc, and Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson; The Definition of Love, A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body, The Garden, Music's Empire, On a Drop of Dew, To His Coy Mistress, and Young Love by Andrew Marvell
2008-01-18: Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau and The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche
2008-01-01: Site launched with publication of Anthem by Ayn Rand