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British Literature: Public-Domain Books

215 popular free books on the “British Literature” shelf.

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 120,764 words A Room with a View E. M. Forster · 63,308 words Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare · 21,008 words The Secret of Chimneys Agatha Christie · 73,609 words The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Ward Radcliffe · 290,837 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 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 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen · 112,722 words The Monk: A Romance M. G. Lewis · 133,377 words Middlemarch George Eliot · 301,393 words A Honeymoon in Space George Chetwynd Griffith · 61,748 words The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough · 115,783 words The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson · 20,448 words The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens · 91,717 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 King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Thomas, Sir Malory · 84,946 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 Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson · 92,206 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 The Pirate Andrew Lang Edition Walter Scott · 192,320 words A pair of blue eyes Thomas Hardy · 129,300 words That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day Richard Dehan · 189,391 words Only a girl's love Charles Garvice · 141,541 words Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor R. D. Blackmore · 250,651 words Love and Freindship [sic] Jane Austen · 29,046 words One of the Six Hundred: A Novel James Grant · 162,095 words Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith · 166,619 words Linnet: A Romance Grant Allen · 137,860 words Sonnets from the Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Passionate Elopement Compton MacKenzie · 107,704 words Doctor Cupid: A Novel Rhoda Broughton · 117,617 words The Romance of Tristan and Iseult Joseph Bédier · 20,140 words As You Like It William Shakespeare · 18,278 words Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times G. P. R. , 1801?-1860 James · 156,599 words Cynthia's Chauffeur Louis Tracy · 81,653 words The Silent Barrier Louis Tracy · 80,551 words Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship 34,060 words The innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton · 76,975 words The Boy with Wings Berta Ruck · 88,607 words One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex Alfred Ollivant · 85,313 words The Gay Adventure: A Romance Richard Bird · 75,454 words Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852 Various · 20,741 words The murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie · 68,884 words The Turn of the Screw Henry James · 36,213 words The wisdom of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton · 65,212 words Henrietta Temple: A Love Story Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli · 142,165 words The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle · 112,096 words Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange John Oliver Hobbes · 98,847 words The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie · 52,740 words De Profundis Oscar Wilde · 16,123 words The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle · 99,704 words The Sign of the Four Arthur Conan Doyle · 36,545 words The Woman in White Wilkie Collins · 227,634 words The Crack of Doom Robert Cromie · 41,874 words Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 67,585 words The Moonstone Wilkie Collins · 180,733 words A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare · 13,158 words Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated Arthur Conan Doyle · 97,929 words The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle · 95,892 words The secret of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton · 59,935 words The Murder on the Links Agatha Christie · 64,645 words Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 141,249 words Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 6), A-H Frederic Boase · 753,988 words Poirot Investigates Agatha Christie · 49,605 words The case-book of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle · 74,686 words The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie · 73,025 words The Valley of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle · 52,115 words Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World Jonathan Swift · 46,146 words His last bow Arthur Conan Doyle · 53,539 words The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale Joseph Conrad · 90,815 words The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan · 37,412 words The Man in the Brown Suit Agatha Christie · 69,961 words The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English 117,015 words Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story H. G. Wells · 96,475 words Lady Audley's Secret M. E. Braddon · 140,770 words The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson · 44,718 words The Great God Pan Arthur Machen · 20,496 words Tales of Terror and Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle · 70,732 words The Seven Dials mystery Agatha Christie · 62,041 words Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 180,719 words The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 George W. M. Reynolds · 437,163 words The Big Four Agatha Christie · 53,514 words The mystery of the Blue Train Agatha Christie · 65,567 words Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel Dorothy L. Sayers · 59,773 words The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers · 106,054 words The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 20 Robert Louis Stevenson · 124,789 words Mr. Standfast John Buchan · 113,042 words The Red House Mystery A. A. Milne · 59,835 words The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Algernon Blackwood · 60,111 words Ghost Stories of an Antiquary M. R. James · 43,305 words Unnatural death Dorothy L. Sayers · 79,621 words A Little English Gallery Louise Imogen Guiney · 49,264 words The Passionate Friends H. G. Wells · 98,482 words The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, February 1904, No. 159. Various · 59,512 words The Air Pirate Guy Thorne · 58,577 words Pen-portraits of literary women 77,450 words The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu Sax Rohmer · 68,243 words The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love William Le Queux · 84,129 words The Zeppelin's Passenger E. Phillips Oppenheim · 63,196 words The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories Rudyard Kipling · 43,606 words The Grand Babylon Hôtel Arnold Bennett · 68,016 words The Hand in the Dark Arthur J. Rees · 103,391 words A Case in Camera Oliver Onions · 73,596 words Love's Labour's Lost William Shakespeare · 18,371 words The Hunter's Lodge Case Agatha Christie The Plymouth Express Affair Agatha Christie Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight An Alliterative Romance-Poem (c. 1360 A.D.) 37,047 words The Missing Will Agatha Christie Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson · 59,364 words I. Bēowulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: a fragment. 158,065 words The Man Upstairs and Other Stories P. G. Wodehouse · 96,761 words Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy · 139,585 words Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy · 92,056 words The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith · 153,441 words Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus Geoffrey, 1343?-1400 Chaucer · 219,196 words Set in Silver C. N. Williamson · 113,818 words The Enchanted April Elizabeth Von Arnim · 73,486 words Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë · 107,951 words She who sleeps Sax Rohmer · 65,903 words Peter Pan J. M. Barrie · 40,898 words Cranford Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · 63,138 words The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete T. Smollett · 160,536 words The Expedition of Humphry Clinker T. Smollett · 140,243 words History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding · 329,263 words The Adventures of Roderick Random T. Smollett · 178,630 words Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World Jonathan Swift · 94,970 words The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance Harry Johnston · 137,807 words The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling · 47,731 words Helen Vardon's confession R. Austin Freeman · 124,272 words The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel, 1661?-1731 Defoe · 103,316 words The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 6 Gilbert Parker · 19,414 words Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson · 70,711 words The Railway Children E. Nesbit · 57,786 words Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem 43,893 words The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain · 69,277 words The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle · 69,363 words The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett · 73,306 words David Copperfield Charles Dickens · 335,143 words Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 Thomas, Sir Malory · 147,605 words Ulysses James Joyce · 260,035 words The Lovers Assistant; Or, New Art of Love Henry Fielding · 16,414 words The Mystery of a Turkish Bath Rita · 29,525 words Paradise Lost John Milton · 74,522 words The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Don Juan George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron · 124,278 words Songs of Innocence and of Experience William Blake · 5,567 words Northanger Abbey Jane Austen · 72,071 words A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens · 126,403 words Hamlet William Shakespeare · 31,766 words Black Beauty Anna Sewell · 48,413 words The Ballad of the White Horse G. K. Chesterton · 20,553 words The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems Geoffrey, 1343?-1400 Chaucer · 287,325 words Childe Harold's Pilgrimage George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron · 38,999 words Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray · 290,196 words The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde · 71,695 words The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens · 299,040 words Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens · 324,665 words Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I Edmund, 1552?-1599 Spenser · 81,749 words The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman Laurence Sterne · 180,622 words Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf · 57,921 words Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients Francis Bacon · 114,594 words The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 Henry James · 115,889 words The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford · 55,541 words Utopia Thomas, Saint More · 40,710 words Shakespeare's Sonnets William Shakespeare · 13,567 words An Old Man's Love Anthony Trollope · 67,139 words The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole · 37,083 words Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles G James Boswell · 205,014 words Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey · 37,504 words The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan Daisy Ashford · 13,657 words English Eccentrics and Eccentricities John Timbs · 177,869 words The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron · 185,718 words The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott · 319,263 words The Girl on the Boat P. G. Wodehouse · 67,624 words My Friend the Chauffeur C. N. Williamson · 106,672 words The Raft Coningsby Dawson · 137,662 words The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9] William Shakespeare · 148,222 words The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope · 237,096 words Addie's Husband; or, Through clouds to sunshine Mrs., 1813?-1883 Gordon Smythies · 81,499 words The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and William Makepeace Thackeray · 165,342 words Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Tre Geoffrey, 1343?-1400 Chaucer · 228,667 words A Love Story William Harvey Christie · 84,583 words The Rustle of Silk Cosmo, 1872?-1942 Hamilton · 91,529 words A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day Charles Reade · 128,794 words From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty A Henry A. Beers · 96,825 words The Vision of Desire Margaret Pedler · 102,130 words The First of the English: A Novel Archibald Clavering Gunter · 90,715 words Jane Seton; or, The King's Advocate: A Scottish Historical Romance James Grant · 158,567 words The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth Century Georgette Heyer · 86,517 words The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 Alexander Pope · 199,168 words Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce · 73,151 words Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 149,779 words Faithful Margaret: A Novel J. M., Mrs. Simpson · 102,297 words Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Charlotte M. Yonge · 101,745 words The dream detective Sax Rohmer · 64,787 words The Cardinal's snuff-box Henry Harland · 52,575 words The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton Gilbert Frankau · 153,664 words Tales of terror Dick Donovan · 108,728 words The Black Abbot Edgar Wallace · 85,015 words Irene Iddesleigh Amanda McKittrick Ros · 34,256 words Only a clod M. E. Braddon · 159,186 words The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story S. R. Crockett · 86,114 words Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 24 53,951 words