# library.forgemesh.io – England Social Life & Customs 19th Century Fiction Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io – England Social Life & Customs 19th Century 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 252 public-domain fiction books about English social life and customs in the 19th century, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/england-social-life-and-customs-19th-century-fiction
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-england-social-life-customs-19th-century-fiction-5f5b73ab
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_O8vuM8bs2htgdDPLNaABT

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability library-forgemesh-io-england-social-life-customs-19th-century-fiction-5f5b73ab -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the curated shelf of public-domain fiction about English social life and customs in the 19th century — give me up to 30 books including titles and links to read them?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need a curated, ranked list of public-domain fiction set in 19th century England with a social life and customs theme. It is preferable over general full-text search when you want to browse the breadth of the collection rather than query specific passages, and over generic book APIs when you need verified public-domain status and immediate full-text access routes.

## Known failure modes

- limit exceeds 50 — request capped or rejected
- payment of $0.003 USDC not processed — 402 response blocks access
- no books match internal filters — empty list returned
- drill-down routes unavailable for specific titles — partial results

## How this service works

Curated shelf: England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction — 252 public-domain books including Sense and Sensibility, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey. 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 252 public-domain fiction books (default 20, max 50 per call) covering the theme of England social life and customs in the 19th century, including book titles like Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey, along with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval of each title.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": null,
    "title": "Sense and Sensibility",
    "author": "Austen, Jane",
    "book_id": 21839,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 73937
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

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