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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