metadata

dataset_info:
  config_name: corpus
  features:
    - name: passage
      dtype: string
    - name: id
      dtype: int64
    - name: author
      dtype: string
    - name: title
      dtype: string
    - name: gutenberg_source_id
      dtype: int64
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 2633492
      num_examples: 1251
  download_size: 1578596
  dataset_size: 2633492
configs:
  - config_name: corpus
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: corpus/train-*
license: mit
task_categories:
  - question-answering
language:
  - en
tags:
  - ebook
  - project_gutenberg
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K

Gutenberg selected ebooks dataset

This dataset is a collection of passages from ebooks handpicked from the Gutenberg Project.

These writings are:

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Pride and Prejudice
Romeo and Juliet
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Odyssey
Winnie-the-Pooh

Source

The texts of the passages were derived from a larger Gutenberg-based set: sedthh/gutenberg_english, which was sourced directly from the project's site.

Metadata

Each passage contains four metadata fields:

key	description
id	Passage unique identifier as int
title	Title of the book as string
author	Author's identity as string
gutenberg_source_id	Text# unique book identifier on Project Gutenberg as int

Copyrights

A note from the source dataset, applicable to this data as well:

Some of the books are copyrighted! The crawler ignored all books with an english copyright header by utilizing a regex expression, but make sure to check out the metadata for each book manually to ensure they are okay to use in your country! More information on copyright: https://www.gutenberg.org/help/copyright.html and https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/permission.html
Project Gutenberg has the following requests when using books without metadata: Books obtianed from the Project Gutenberg site should have the following legal note next to them: "This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost" no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook."