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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