On the internet of the 1980's everything was stored in ASCII text files. During these early days, many literary works were manually typed up and shared widely. [TEXTFILES.COM][1] is a website by Jason Scott dedicated to collecting and preserving text files from this internet of the past. This dataset is a small subset of his total collection - focussing exclusively on english literary works. Each book is stored in its own ASCII text file and all are in English. How similar are the writing styles of so-called classic authors? Can you train a model to determine if a work is fictional or not? What words or phrases are the most popular in these books? [1]: http://textfiles.com