Fiction
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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War and Peace, a novel by Leo Tolstoy, is considered one of the world’s greatest works of fiction. Tolstoy himself, somewhat enigmatically, said of War and Peace that it was “not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less an historical chronicle”. This is a free ebook.
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Pride and Prejudice was first published in 1813, and is Jane Austen’s second novel. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, moral rightness, education and marriage in her aristocratic society of early 19th century England.
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Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is commonly recognized as one of the Great American Novels. The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an entertaining, educational, and very interesting read.
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Emma, by Jane Austen, is a comic novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively ‘comedy of manners’ among her characters. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, “I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like.” In the very first sentence she introduces the title character as “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich.” Emma, however, is also rather spoiled; she greatly overestimates …
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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.
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Ulysses is a novel by Irish author James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review in 1918-1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in 1922, in Paris. One of the most important works of Modernist literature, it has been called “a demonstration and summation of the entire movement”. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. This is a free ebook.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine in 1891 and 1892. This is a free ebook.
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Through The Looking-Glass is the sequel to Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland (Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland). Although it makes no reference to the events in the earlier book, the themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland. This book opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night, and features many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on. If you enjoyed Alice In Wonderland, then you’ll love this.
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If you’ve just seen Tim Burton’s take on Alice in Wonderland, then you’ll really enjoy Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland). This ebook is free.
