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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
Herman Melville · 204,220 words
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 120,764 words
The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the
Homer · 117,338 words
A Room with a View
E. M. Forster · 63,308 words
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare · 21,008 words
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 191,667 words
The Secret of Chimneys
Agatha Christie · 73,609 words
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Ward Radcliffe · 290,837 words
Carmen
Prosper Mérimée · 18,911 words
The Blue Castle: a novel
L. M. Montgomery · 63,984 words
The Green Mummy
Fergus Hume · 81,302 words
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · 98,824 words
The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
Mary Wollstonecraft · 28,429 words
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
Charlotte Brontë · 172,195 words
My Life — Volume 1
Richard Wagner · 207,836 words
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 22,132 words
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare · 908,104 words
The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance.
James Malcolm, 1814?-1884 Rymer · 405,668 words
Dracula
Bram Stoker · 143,055 words
The Lady of the Lake
Walter Scott · 77,293 words
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
G. K. Chesterton · 56,430 words
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
Maurice Leblanc · 49,976 words
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen · 112,722 words
Meditations
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius · 63,752 words
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude
Austin Bidwell · 130,616 words
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)
165,494 words
The Monk: A Romance
M. G. Lewis · 133,377 words
Four Arthurian Romances
de Troyes, active 12th century Chrétien · 165,833 words
Middlemarch
George Eliot · 301,393 words
Eloisa
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 297,725 words
Thuvia, maid of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs · 46,337 words
A Honeymoon in Space
George Chetwynd Griffith · 61,748 words
The Yeoman Adventurer
George W. Gough · 115,783 words
Manon Lescaut
abbé Prévost · 58,940 words
A farewell to arms
Ernest Hemingway · 81,725 words
The Misplaced Battleship
Harry Harrison · 7,228 words
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · 20,448 words
Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q
Frederic Boase · 789,400 words
The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers · 66,071 words
Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Louisa May Alcott · 180,515 words
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens · 91,717 words
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 451,521 words
The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen A Linked Index of all PG Edi
Jane Austen · 742,242 words
Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Charles Dickens · 47,318 words
The Confessions of St. Augustine
of Hippo, Saint Augustine · 98,078 words
Twenty years after
Alexandre Dumas · 235,417 words
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain · 138,452 words
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Thomas, Sir Malory · 84,946 words
The Sex Life of the Gods
M. E. Knerr · 27,171 words
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Philip Sidney · 331,937 words
The Blue Lagoon: A Romance
H. De Vere Stacpoole · 62,109 words
Under the Red Dragon: A Novel
James Grant · 144,006 words
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
Holman Day · 136,275 words
Catriona
Robert Louis Stevenson · 92,206 words
I am a woman
Ann Bannon · 69,244 words
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle · 37,788 words
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
Lucas Malet · 263,322 words
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle · 58,624 words
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass · 34,616 words
Erotica Romana
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 7,129 words
Sources & data
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