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Classics of Literature: Public-Domain Books

135 popular free books on the “Classics of Literature” shelf.

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 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare · 21,008 words Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 191,667 words The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Ward Radcliffe · 290,837 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 Dracula Bram Stoker · 143,055 words Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen · 112,722 words Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius · 63,752 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 Manon Lescaut abbé Prévost · 58,940 words A farewell to arms Ernest Hemingway · 81,725 words The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson · 20,448 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 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 Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle · 58,624 words Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne · 61,258 words A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne · 83,726 words The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 37,028 words Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 67,585 words A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare · 13,158 words The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle · 95,892 words The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete Mark Twain · 64,921 words Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World Jonathan Swift · 46,146 words Love's Labour's Lost William Shakespeare · 18,371 words Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight An Alliterative Romance-Poem (c. 1360 A.D.) 37,047 words Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson · 59,364 words Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain · 96,009 words The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers Diogenes Laertius · 190,787 words I. Bēowulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: a fragment. 158,065 words Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus Geoffrey, 1343?-1400 Chaucer · 219,196 words The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald · 43,844 words The Iliad Homer · 184,274 words Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë · 107,951 words Peter Pan J. M. Barrie · 40,898 words The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 329,862 words The Expedition of Humphry Clinker T. Smollett · 140,243 words History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding · 329,263 words Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World Jonathan Swift · 94,970 words Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne · 100,711 words The three musketeers Alexandre Dumas · 221,587 words The call of the wild Jack London · 26,983 words The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel, 1661?-1731 Defoe · 103,316 words Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem 43,893 words Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World Jules Verne · 144,404 words Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory No Sophocles · 18,852 words The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII Ovid · 127,794 words The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain · 69,277 words The Enchiridion Epictetus · 8,812 words The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett · 73,306 words David Copperfield Charles Dickens · 335,143 words Plutarch's Morals Plutarch · 157,488 words A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain · 105,753 words Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 Thomas, Sir Malory · 147,605 words Ulysses James Joyce · 260,035 words Symposium Plato · 30,479 words The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 200,393 words Paradise Lost John Milton · 74,522 words The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Phaedrus Plato · 36,258 words The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 632,012 words The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · 52,796 words The Aeneid Virgil · 118,921 words Don Juan George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron · 124,278 words Apology Plato · 14,842 words The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of T Edgar Allan Poe · 476,033 words Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe · 174,830 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 Andersen's Fairy Tales H. C. Andersen · 47,736 words Black Beauty Anna Sewell · 48,413 words Phaedo Plato · 39,919 words Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell Dante Alighieri · 35,263 words The Republic of Plato Plato · 233,431 words Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius · 72,605 words The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno Dante Alighieri · 113,641 words Three hundred Aesop’s fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend Aesop · 39,176 words The Adventures of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi · 38,023 words The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Enterta 253,457 words The Consolation of Philosophy Boethius · 39,722 words Notre-Dame de Paris Victor Hugo · 203,492 words The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based o Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius · 35,740 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 Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod · 88,864 words The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin · 58,190 words Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens · 324,665 words Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I Edmund, 1552?-1599 Spenser · 81,749 words On the Nature of Things Titus, 95? BCE-50? BCE Lucretius Carus · 76,857 words Lysistrata Aristophanes · 14,650 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 A Doll's House : a play Henrik Ibsen · 20,952 words The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 Henry James · 115,889 words The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War Stephen Crane · 41,919 words Gargantua and Pantagruel François, 1490?-1553? Rabelais · 310,791 words The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio · 290,869 words Metamorphosis Franz Kafka · 16,890 words Utopia Thomas, Saint More · 40,710 words War and Peace Leo, graf Tolstoy · 561,328 words Shakespeare's Sonnets William Shakespeare · 13,567 words Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On Marcus Tullius Cicero · 176,422 words The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole · 37,083 words The Satyricon — Complete Petronius Arbiter · 94,598 words Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles G James Boswell · 205,014 words Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Robert Burns · 143,738 words From the Earth to the moon; and, round the moon Jules Verne · 91,797 words In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts Desiderius Erasmus · 40,479 words The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6) the Elder, 24?-79 Pliny · 232,782 words The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron · 185,718 words The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius Literally translated int Juvenal · 257,771 words Five Weeks in a Balloon Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishm Jules Verne · 90,925 words The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9] William Shakespeare · 148,222 words Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Tre Geoffrey, 1343?-1400 Chaucer · 228,667 words From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty A Henry A. Beers · 96,825 words The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 Alexander Pope · 199,168 words