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A dataset containing the lines from three books by the sociologist W.E.B. DuBois, acquired from Project Gutenberg:

  • The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

  • Darkwater (1920)

  • The Conservation of Races (1897)

Format

A data frame with 12,757 rows and 5 variables.

Source

gutenbergr

Variables

  • gutenberg_id. ID for the work on Project Gutenberg

  • text. Line from a book

  • title. Full title of the book

  • short_title. Shortened title for the book

  • pub_year. Year the book was originally published