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text string	book string	author string	chapter int64	chapter_title string	gutenberg_id int64	n_words int64	sent_sd float64	hedge_per_1k float64	aside_per_1k float64	ttr float64	tags list
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the ...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	1	Chapter I.	1,342	847	16.09	2.34	17.58	0.65	[ "bursty", "has_asides", "funnel" ]
Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley. He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it. It was then disclosed in the following manner. Observing his second daug...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	2	CHAPTER II.	1,342	797	10.73	2.5	15.02	0.645	[ "bursty", "has_asides", "funnel" ]
Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley. They attacked him in various ways, with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the skill ...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	3	CHAPTER III.	1,342	1,698	13.84	4.69	3.23	0.565	[ "bursty", "has_asides", "funnel" ]
When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious in her praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister how very much she admired him. "He is just what a young-man ought to be," said she, "sensible, good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners! so much ease, with such perfect go...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	4	CHAPTER IV.	1,342	1,059	17.11	1.88	5.64	0.685	[ "bursty", "has_asides", "funnel" ]
Within a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty. The distinction had, perhaps, been felt ...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	5	CHAPTER V.	1,342	952	17.71	5.19	15.58	0.695	[ "bursty", "has_asides", "funnel" ]
The ladies of Longbourn soon waited on those of Netherfield. The visit was returned in due form. Miss Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the good-will of Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley; and though the mother was found to be intolerable, and the younger sisters not worth speaking to, a wish of being better acquainted with t...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	6	CHAPTER VI.	1,342	2,340	22.52	2.55	8.92	0.581	[ "bursty", "has_asides", "funnel" ]
Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his. Her father had been ...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	7	CHAPTER VII.	1,342	1,990	19.9	1.5	10	0.596	[ "bursty", "has_asides", "funnel" ]
At five o'clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half-past six Elizabeth was summoned to dinner. To the civil inquiries which then poured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the much superior solicitude of Mr. Bingley, she could not make a very favourable answer. Jane was by no means bet...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	8	CHAPTER VIII.	1,342	1,925	20.31	6.71	14.98	0.591	[ "bursty", "has_asides", "funnel" ]
Elizabeth passed the chief of the night in her sister's room, and in the morning had the pleasure of being able to send a tolerable answer to the inquiries which she very early received from Mr. Bingley by a housemaid, and some time afterwards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his sisters. In spite of this amen...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	9	CHAPTER IX.	1,342	1,727	13.04	4.03	10.93	0.607	[ "bursty", "has_asides", "funnel" ]
The day passed much as the day before had done. Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley had spent some hours of the morning with the invalid, who continued, though slowly, to mend; and, in the evening, Elizabeth joined their party in the drawing-room. The loo table, however, did not appear. Mr. Darcy was writing, and Miss Bingley,...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	10	CHAPTER X.	1,342	2,206	21.61	4.5	12.83	0.594	[ "bursty", "has_asides", "funnel" ]
When the ladies removed after dinner Elizabeth ran up to her sister, and seeing her well guarded from cold, attended her into the drawing-room, where she was welcomed by her two friends with many professions of pleasure; and Elizabeth had never seen them so agreeable as they were during the hour which passed before the...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	11	CHAPTER XI.	1,342	1,595	18.25	3.74	11.83	0.635	[ "bursty", "has_asides", "funnel" ]
In consequence of an agreement between the sisters, Elizabeth wrote the next morning to her mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent for them in the course of the day. But Mrs. Bennet, who had calculated on her daughters remaining at Netherfield till the following Tuesday, which would exactly finish Jane's week, ...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	12	CHAPTER XII.	1,342	673	15.22	2.96	0	0.768	[ "bursty", "funnel" ]
"I hope, my dear," said Mr. Bennet to his wife, as they were at breakfast the next morning, "that you have ordered a good dinner to-day, because I have reason to expect an addition to our family party." "Who do you mean, my dear? I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call ...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	13	CHAPTER XIII	1,342	1,690	24.64	3.52	8.21	0.637	[ "bursty", "has_asides", "funnel" ]
During dinner, Mr. Bennet scarcely spoke at all; but when the servants were withdrawn, he thought it time to have some conversation with his guest, and therefore started a subject in which he expected him to shine, by observing that he seemed very fortunate in his patroness. Lady Catherine de Bourgh's attention to his ...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	14	CHAPTER XIV	1,342	1,115	17.06	0.89	6.24	0.715	[ "bursty", "has_asides", "funnel", "committed" ]
Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms without...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	15	CHAPTER XV.	1,342	1,688	18.07	2.35	2.64	0.647	[ "bursty" ]
As no objection was made to the young people's engagement with their aunt, and all Mr. Collins's scruples of leaving Mr. and Mrs. Bennet for a single evening during his visit were most steadily resisted, the coach conveyed him and his five cousins at a suitable hour to Meryton; and the girls had the pleasure of hearing...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	16	CHAPTER XVI.	1,342	3,360	20	3.25	7.97	0.537	[ "bursty", "has_asides", "funnel" ]
Elizabeth related to Jane, the next day, what had passed between Mr. Wickham and herself. Jane listened with astonishment and concern: she knew not how to believe that Mr. Darcy could be so unworthy of Mr. Bingley's regard; and yet it was not in her nature to question the veracity of a young man of such amiable appeara...	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	17	CHAPTER XVII.	1,342	1,274	18.12	1.56	3.12	0.693	[ "bursty", "has_asides", "funnel" ]
Till Elizabeth entered the drawing-room at Netherfield, and looked in vain for Mr. Wickham among the cluster of red coats there assembled, a doubt of his being present had never occurred to her. The certainty of meeting him had not been checked by any of those recollections that might not unreasonably have alarmed her....	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	18	CHAPTER XVIII.	1,342	5,167	19.35	3.28	6.26	0.464	[ "bursty", "has_asides" ]

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Fundgrube

German: "treasure trove." 884 clean novel chapters (2,533,296 words) from 25 US-public-domain works, harvested from Project Gutenberg and gated entirely by deterministic quality filters — no LLM touched the text or the admission decisions.

Built as the human-written chosen/seed side for preference datasets (e.g. gutenberg2-dpo-style chapter DPO, or single-axis voice-degradation DPO where a model only ever writes the rejected side). Useful anywhere you want passage-scale, provenance-tracked public-domain prose.

How it was built

Harvested with buchbinder (Schneewolf Labs): search Gutendex → license-gate on Gutenberg's own copyright=false flag (US public domain) → strip PG boilerplate, de-hyphenate, unwrap → segment into chapters on heading structure → admit through deterministic gates:

front/back-matter removal (labels + content heuristics)
500–8,000 word band (overlong chapters split at scene breaks)
fragment detection (mid-sentence starts/ends), copyright-boilerplate phrasing, publisher ad/watermark scrubbing, caption and running-header removal
prose-shape checks: sentence-end ratio ≥ 0.55, digit density ≤ 2%, alpha ratio ≥ 70%, stopword-based English check, type-token-ratio floor, word-length-profile ceiling
near-duplicate rejection (8-gram shingles) plus edition-level dedup

Fields

field	meaning
`text`	the chapter, paragraphs separated by `\n\n`
`book`, `author`	as recorded by Project Gutenberg (`Last, First`)
`chapter`	1-based index among admitted chapters of the work
`chapter_title`	source heading (e.g. `CHAPTER IX.`)
`gutenberg_id`	PG etext number — full provenance
`n_words`	word count
`sent_sd`	sentence-length standard deviation (burstiness)
`hedge_per_1k`	hedge-lexicon hits per 1k words
`aside_per_1k`	parentheticals / dash-interjections per 1k words
`ttr`	content-word type-token ratio
`tags`	axis affinities: `bursty` (sent_sd ≥ 6), `has_asides` (≥ 3/1k), `funnel` (thesis-position ≥ 0.25), `committed` (hedges ≤ 1/1k)

Works

title	author	PG #	chapters
Moby Dick; Or, The Whale	Melville, Herman	2701	117
The Brothers Karamazov	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor	28054	94
Middlemarch	Eliot, George	145	86
Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	1342	61
Life on the Mississippi	Twain, Mark	245	57
Sense and Sensibility	Austen, Jane	21839	50
A Tale of Two Cities	Dickens, Charles	98	45
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Twain, Mark	76	43
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade	Melville, Herman	21816	40
Two on a Tower	Hardy, Thomas	3146	40
A pair of blue eyes	Hardy, Thomas	224	39
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete	Twain, Mark	74	34
The Mystery of Edwin Drood	Dickens, Charles	564	23
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Wilde, Oscar	174	20
Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog)	Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)	308	19
Desperate Remedies	Hardy, Thomas	3044	16
The Age of Innocence	Wharton, Edith	541	16
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare	Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)	1695	15
Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)	Dickens, Charles	47530	15
The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow	Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)	849	14
Crime and Punishment	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor	2554	11
White nights, and other stories	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor	36034	10
Ethan Frome	Wharton, Edith	4517	10
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale	Conrad, Joseph	974	7
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People	Wilde, Oscar	844	2

Limitations

US public domain. Gutenberg's copyright flag asserts US status; other jurisdictions (life+70 etc.) may differ for some authors — check locally before redistribution outside the US.
Fiction-heavy: burstiness and asides are well covered; hedge-free committed prose is scarce (fiction hedges through narrators).
Translations (Dostoyevsky) are the PD-era English translations.
Metric thresholds are heuristic starting points, not calibrated truth.

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