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Classic Novels

83 public-domain classics, full and unabridged.

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley · 1818

Jane Austen · 1815

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850

Charlotte Brontë · 1847

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë · 1847

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens · 1859

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell · 1854

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy · 1886

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy · 1891

A Room with a View

E. M. Forster · 1908

James Joyce · 1914

Virginia Woolf · 1925

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton · 1920

The Professor's House

Willa Cather · 1925

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner · 1929

Leo Tolstoy · 1877

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866

Gustave Flaubert (tr. Eleanor Marx-Aveling) · 1856

Henrik Ibsen · 1879

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde · 1895

William Shakespeare · 1606

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887

The Sign of the Four

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892 · 12 stories

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893 · 12 stories

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1905 · 13 stories

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1912

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens · 1843

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare · 1597

William Shakespeare · 1611

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare · 1600

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare · 1600

William Shakespeare · 1599

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens · 1861

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen · 1813

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1912

The Return of Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1913

The Beasts of Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1914

The Son of Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1914

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne · 1873

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain · 1876

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain · 1884

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells · 1898

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe · 1719

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift · 1726

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll · 1865

Homer (tr. Samuel Butler) · c. 8th c. BCE

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Herman Melville · 1851

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Lew Wallace · 1880

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper · 1826

Alfonsina Storni · 1919

Nuestra América

José Martí · 1891

Romance de la pérdida de Alhama

Anónimo · Medieval romancero

El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra

Tirso de Molina · c. 1630

Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes

Anónimo · 1554

Don Quijote de la Mancha

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1605

Obras selectas (incl. "Hombres necios")

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz · complete works

Obras (incl. Soneto XXIII)

Garcilaso de la Vega · complete works

Poesías completas (incl. "He andado muchos caminos")

Antonio Machado · complete works

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · 1871

Rubén Darío · 1904

El Conde Lucanor — Ejemplo XXXV

Don Juan Manuel · c. 1335

Prendimiento de Antoñito el Camborio

Federico García Lorca · 1928

Horacio Quiroga · 1928

Faust — Der Tragödie erster Teil

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808

Faust — Der Tragödie zweiter Teil

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1832

Die Leiden des jungen Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774

Friedrich Schiller · 1804

Deutsche Märchen (Brüder Grimm)

Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm · 1812

Buch der Lieder

Heinrich Heine · 1827

Der Tod in Venedig

Thomas Mann · 1912

Death in Venice (tr. Kenneth Burke, 1924)

Œuvres complètes, Tome 3 (incl. Le Tartuffe)

Candide, ou l'optimisme

Voltaire · 1759

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo · 1831

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Alexandre Dumas et Auguste Maquet · 1844

Contes du jour et de la nuit

Guy de Maupassant · 1885

ਹੀਰ ਵਾਰਿਸ ਸ਼ਾਹ (Heer)

Waris Shah · c. 1766

دیوان غالب — غزلیات (partial)

Mirza Ghalib · 1841

Francisco de Quevedo · 1613

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