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ForgeMesh Library – Didactic Fiction Shelf
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ForgeMesh Library – Didactic Fiction Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Returns a ranked list of up to 15 curated public-domain didactic fiction books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Didactic fiction — 15 public-domain books including The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Brothers Karamazov, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.
Output
A ranked list of up to 15 (or requested limit) public-domain didactic fiction books, including titles such as The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Brothers Karamazov, and Uncle Tom's Cabin, along with drill-down routes that can be used for full-text retrieval of each work.
Example use cases
Curriculum reading list builder
“I'm building a philosophy and ethics curriculum and need a list of classic didactic fiction — things like The Brothers Karamazov or Uncle Tom's Cabin. Can you pull the full curated shelf of morally instructive public-domain novels, up to 15 books?”
Book club selection from classic didactics
“Our book club wants to read something with a moral or philosophical edge this month. Can you browse the ForgeMesh didactic fiction shelf and show me what's available — I'd like to see all the titles they have?”
Research into 19th-century moral fiction
“I'm researching how 19th-century authors used fiction to teach moral lessons. Can you get me the full list of didactic fiction from ForgeMesh's public-domain library so I can see which canonical works are indexed there?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/didactic-fictionWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-ranked list of public-domain didactic fiction titles with links for full-text access, without any authentication or API key. Prefer this over a general web search when you want a reliable, stable shelf of moral/philosophical classics like Tolstoy or Wilde, and when you need drill-down routes for follow-up full-text retrieval from the same provider.
Side effects
- limit parameter exceeds max of 50 — server may reject or clamp
- payment failure via x402 protocol — call returns 402 if USDC payment not processed
- service unavailable — corpus temporarily offline
- invalid limit type (non-integer) causes schema validation error
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Max books to return (default 20, max 50) |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"books": [
{
"year": null,
"title": "The Picture of Dorian Gray",
"author": "Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900",
"book_id": 174,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 16363
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Didactic fiction",
"coverage": {
"target": 860,
"indexed": 860
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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