The 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.
Download this entire collection
All 131 books as EPUB · 47 MB ZIP
- A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s CourtMark Twain
- A Doll's House: a playHenrik Ibsen
- A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway
- A Journey to the Centre of the EarthJules Verne
- A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare
- A Modest ProposalJonathan Swift
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce
- A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens
- Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain
- Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll
- Alice’s Adventures Under GroundLewis Carroll
- An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh EpicMorris Jastrow & Albert T. Clay
- Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy
- Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery
- ApologyPlato
- Around the World in Eighty DaysJules Verne
- Ars Amatoria; or, The Art of LoveOvid
- Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic PoemUnknown
- Bleak HouseCharles Dickens
- CarmillaJ. Sheridan Le Fanu
- Childe Harold's PilgrimageGeorge Gordon Byron
- Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky
- David CopperfieldCharles Dickens
- Dombey and SonCharles Dickens
- Don JuanGeorge Gordon Byron
- DraculaBram Stoker
- El crimen y el castigoFyodor Dostoyevsky
- EloisaJean-Jacques Rousseau
- EvangelineHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Father GoriotHonoré de Balzac
- Four Arthurian RomancesChretien de Troyes
- Frankenstein; or, the Modern PrometheusMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens
- Gulliver’s Travels into Remote NationsJonathan Swift
- Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad
- History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingHenry Fielding
- Jane Eyre: An AutobiographyCharlotte Bronte
- KimRudyard Kipling
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round TableThomas Malory
- L’île mystérieuseJules Verne
- Le cas étrange du docteur JekyllRobert Louis Stevenson
- Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome IAlexandre Dumas
- Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1Thomas Malory
- Les MisérablesVictor Hugo
- Les Trois MousquetairesAlexandre Dumas
- Little WomenLouisa May Alcott
- Lord JimJoseph Conrad
- Love's Labour's LostWilliam Shakespeare
- Lyrical Ballads (1798)Wordsworth & Coleridge
- Manon Lescautabbe Prevost
- MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
- MetamorphosisFranz Kafka
- MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot
- Moby Dick; Or, The WhaleHerman Melville
- Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf
- New AtlantisFrancis Bacon
- Northanger AbbeyJane Austen
- Oedipus King of ThebesSophocles
- Oliver TwistCharles Dickens
- Peter PanJ. M. Barrie
- PhaedoPlato
- PhaedrusPlato
- PhantastesGeorge MacDonald
- Plutarch's MoralsPlutarch
- Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
- Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare
- Roméo et JulietteWilliam Shakespeare
- Sense and SensibilityJane Austen
- Sophocles: The Seven PlaysSophocles
- SymposiumPlato
- Tess of the d’UrbervillesThomas Hardy
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, CompleteMark Twain
- The Agamemnon of AeschylusAeschylus
- The ArgonauticaApollonius Rhodius
- The Birth of TragedyFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Call of the WildJack London
- The Castle of OtrantoHorace Walpole
- The Complete Poetical Works of LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Complete Works of William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare
- The Confessions of St. AugustineAugustine
- The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas
- The Countess of Pembroke's ArcadiaPhilip Sidney
- The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri
- The EnchiridionEpictetus
- The Expedition of Humphry ClinkerT. Smollett
- The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
- The History of Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle
- The House of the Seven GablesNathaniel Hawthorne
- The IliadHomer
- The Iliads of HomerGeorge Chapman (translator)
- The Life and Adventures of Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe
- The Little Clay CartSudraka
- The Lives and Opinions of Eminent PhilosophersDiogenes Laertius
- The MabinogionLady Charlotte Guest (translator)
- The Merry Adventures of Robin HoodHoward Pyle
- The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VIIOvid
- The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XVOvid
- The Monk: A RomanceM. G. Lewis
- The Mysteries of UdolphoAnn Ward Radcliffe
- The Mystery of Edwin DroodCharles Dickens
- The NibelungenliedAnonymous
- The OdysseyHomer
- The Odysseys of HomerGeorge Chapman (translator)
- The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde
- The Prince and the PauperMark Twain
- The Rape of the Lock, and Other PoemsAlexander Pope
- The Return of the NativeThomas Hardy
- The Rime of the Ancient MarinerSamuel Taylor Coleridge
- The SatyriconPetronius
- The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett
- The Sorrows of Young WertherJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner
- The Story of the VolsungsEiríkr Magnússon & William Morris (translators)
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson
- The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway
- The Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 1Unknown
- The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas
- The Waste LandT. S. Eliot
- Thus Spake ZarathustraFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson
- Troilus and CriseydeGeoffrey Chaucer
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasJules Verne
- UlyssesJames Joyce
- Uncle Tom’s CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe
- Vanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
- Voyage au Centre de la TerreJules Verne
- War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy
- Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronte