Our Classic Literature collection is a curated shelf of the world’s most enduring books — the works of fiction, philosophy, and poetry that have spoken to readers across cultures and centuries. It spans ancient and modern masters alike, from Homer and Marcus Aurelius to Tolstoy, Dumas, and Goethe.
This is literature that has stood the test of time. Every title is a free public-domain EPUB download, cleanly formatted and ready for your e-reader, tablet, or phone.
- Moby Dick; Or, The WhaleHerman Melville
- Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
- Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare
- Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky
- Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll
- The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas
- Frankenstein; or, the Modern PrometheusMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot
- The Complete Works of William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare
- Jane Eyre: An AutobiographyCharlotte Bronte
- Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and AmyLouisa May Alcott
- DraculaBram Stoker
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson
- The Mysteries of UdolphoAnn Ward Radcliffe
- MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
- The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Confessions of St. AugustineAugustine
- The Expedition of Humphry ClinkerT. Smollett
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, CompleteMark Twain
- Sense and SensibilityJane Austen
- History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingHenry Fielding
- Four Arthurian RomancesChretien de Troyes
- The Monk: A RomanceM. G. Lewis
- The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)Unknown
- The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway
- Manon Lescautabbe Prevost
- EloisaJean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Mystery of Edwin DroodCharles Dickens
- Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronte
- The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane AustenJane Austen
- The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle
- Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)Charles Dickens
- Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain
- The OdysseyHomer
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round TableThomas Malory
- Around the World in Eighty DaysJules Verne
- The Countess of Pembroke's ArcadiaPhilip Sidney
- Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson
- The Sorrows of Young WertherJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
- War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy
- Romeo et Juliette / TragedieWilliam Shakespeare
- A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens
- A Journey to the Centre of the EarthJules Verne
- The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde
- A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare
- Peter PanJ. M. Barrie
- Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome IAlexandre Dumas
- Les Trois MousquetairesAlexandre Dumas
- The Merry Adventures of Robin HoodHoward Pyle
- UlyssesJames Joyce
- El crimen y el castigoFyodor Dostoyevsky
- Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the WorldJonathan Swift
- Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and NoneFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic PoemUnknown
- L'ile mysterieuseJules Verne
- Voyage au Centre de la TerreJules Verne
- The Lives and Opinions of Eminent PhilosophersDiogenes Laertius
- Love's Labour's LostWilliam Shakespeare
- The IliadHomer
- ApologyPlato
- David CopperfieldCharles Dickens
- MetamorphosisFranz Kafka
- Les MiserablesVictor Hugo
- The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas
- The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VIIOvid
- The Life and Adventures of Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe
- The Call of the WildJack London
- Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and TroilusGeoffrey Chaucer
- The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtMark Twain
- PhaedoPlato
- Oedipus King of ThebesSophocles
- Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery
- The Prince and the PauperMark Twain
- Don JuanGeorge Gordon Byron
- Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens
- Plutarch's MoralsPlutarch
- Le cas etrange du docteur Jekyll; Un logement pour la nuitRobert Louis Stevenson
- The EnchiridionEpictetus
- The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett
- A Modest ProposalJonathan Swift
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the WorldJules Verne
- SymposiumPlato
- The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, CompleteMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1Thomas Malory
- A Doll's House: a playHenrik Ibsen
- Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy
- Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe
- Northanger AbbeyJane Austen
- PhaedrusPlato
- The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and PessimismFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- Childe Harold's PilgrimageGeorge Gordon Byron