My Life
My Life by Richard Wagner is a public-domain fiction work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. It is catal… Read free →
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. Smollett is a public-domain fiction work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloa… Read free →
Cranford
Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a public-domain fiction work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles… Read free →
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding is a public-domain fiction work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-down… Read free →
Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain is a public-domain fiction work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles.… Read free →
The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster is a public-domain fiction work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenbe… Read free →
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre is a public-domain fiction work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downl… Read free →
Rizal's own story of his life
Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal is a public-domain fiction work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded t… Read free →
Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë by A. Mary F. Robinson is a public-domain fiction work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-downloaded titles. I… Read free →
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius is a public-domain fiction work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-d… Read free →
White nights, and other stories
White nights, and other stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a public-domain fiction work, free to read online in full. One of Project Gutenberg's most-do… Read free →
A Little English Gallery
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Oliver Twist
An orphan boy navigates the criminal underworld of Victorian London, encountering Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and the brutal Bill Sikes. Read free →
A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who show him the error of his miserly ways. Read free →
The Scarlet Letter
Set in Puritan Massachusetts, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet 'A' for adultery while keeping her lover's identity secret. Read free →
David Copperfield
Dickens' most autobiographical novel follows young David from a troubled childhood to literary success. The author's own favorite among his works. Read free →
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The anti-slavery novel that helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War. Follows the lives of enslaved people in the American South. Read free →
Bleak House
A sweeping satire of the British legal system centered on an interminable court case. One of Dickens' most complex and accomplished novels. Read free →
A Tale of Two Cities
Set during the French Revolution, a story of love, sacrifice, and resurrection. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Read free →
Great Expectations
The coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who dreams of becoming a gentleman. One of Dickens' finest novels. Read free →
Les Miserables
The epic story of ex-convict Jean Valjean's quest for redemption in 19th-century France, pursued by the relentless Inspector Javert. Read free →
Crime and Punishment
A psychological novel exploring the mental anguish of a young man who commits murder and his path to redemption. Read free →
Little Women
The story of the four March sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy — as they grow from childhood to adulthood. Read free →
War and Peace
Tolstoy's masterwork chronicles Russian society during the Napoleonic era through the stories of five aristocratic families. Read free →
The Brothers Karamazov
A profound philosophical novel about faith, doubt, and morality, centered on three brothers and their father's murder. Read free →
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A young man sells his soul for eternal youth while his portrait ages and shows the corruption of his sins. Read free →
The Yellow Wallpaper
A woman's descent into madness while confined to a room with yellow wallpaper. A landmark of feminist literature. Read free →
The Red Badge of Courage
A young Union soldier confronts fear, flight, and courage during a brutal Civil War battle. Read free →
Heart of Darkness
A journey up the Congo River to find the enigmatic Kurtz, exploring colonialism and the darkness within humanity. Read free →
The Awakening
A young woman's struggle for personal freedom in the stifling society of 1890s New Orleans. A pioneering work of feminist literature. Read free →
The Jungle
An immigrant family's struggle in the Chicago meatpacking industry exposes corruption and inhumane working conditions. The book that changed food safe… Read free →
Ethan Frome
A bleak New England farmer trapped in a loveless marriage falls for his wife's cousin, in Wharton's spare tragedy of thwarted longing. Read free →
Dubliners
Fifteen short stories depicting middle-class life in Dublin at the turn of the 20th century. A masterpiece of modernist literature. Read free →
The Metamorphosis
Gregor Samsa wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect. A masterpiece of existential literature. Read free →
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen Dedalus grows from a sensitive child into an aspiring artist, rejecting the constraints of family, religion, and nation. Read free →
My Man Jeeves
The first collection of stories featuring the inimitable valet Jeeves and his hapless employer Bertie Wooster. Comic genius at its finest. Read free →
This Side of Paradise
Fitzgerald's debut follows Princeton dreamer Amory Blaine through love and disillusion at the dawn of the Jazz Age. Read free →
Ulysses
A single day in Dublin follows Leopold Bloom through the city in this landmark of modernist literature. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels … Read free →
The Great Gatsby
The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his pursuit of the American Dream in the Roaring Twenties. Read free →
The Trial
Josef K. is arrested and prosecuted by a mysterious authority for an unspecified crime. Kafka's nightmarish masterpiece of bureaucratic absurdity. Read free →
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