<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (May 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group . Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher . </P> <P> Reprint series of public domain fiction (and sometimes nonfiction) books appeared as early as the 18th century, with the series Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill (founded by British publisher John Bell in 1777). Later British reprint series were to include the Routledge's Railway Library (George Routledge, 1848--99), the Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press, 1901 -), the Everyman's Library (J.M. Dent, 1906 -), the Penguin Classics (Penguin Books, 1945 -) and the Penguin English Library (1963 -). </P> <P> Reprint series were also published in the United States, including the Modern Library (Boni & Liveright, 1917 -), in Germany, including the Universal - Bibliothek (Reclam, 1867 -), and in most other countries of the world . </P>

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