Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel’s influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical, film and television interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This is a free ebook.
The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie, it is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. This is a free ebook.
Les Misérables follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a twenty-year period in the early 19th century, starting in 1815, the year of Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo. Les Misérables is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. This is a free ebook.
Gulliver’s Travels became tremendously popular as soon as it was published, and had since never been out of print. The book presents itself as a simple traveller’s narrative with the disingenuous title Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, its authorship assigned only to “Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, then a captain of several ships”. This is a free ebook.
The Boy Scouts Handbook has been used by generations of American youths, and includes copious information on such topics as woodcrafting, camping, sailing, as well as notes on developing self-reliance and good citizenship. This ebook is free.
Considered a classic of English literature, Wuthering Heights tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them. This is a free ebook.