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Books Available Online

Books that are out-of-copyright, meaning their copyright protection has expired, are available online at Classic Reader, Bibliomania, and Bartleby.com

Below are links for specific titles.

* Signifies title is on the Common Core Literature reading list.

 

1984 by George Orwell

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir A. Conan Doyle
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The American Language by H.L. Mencken *

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Antigone by Sophocles

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

Beowulf by Anonymous

Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville *

The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Candide by Voltaire
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer *

The Cask of the Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe *

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky *

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen  *

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes *

The Dubliners by James Joyce

An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

The Fallacy of Successby G.K. Chesterton

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev *

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
The Gift of the Magi O. Henry *

The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald *

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Henry V by William Shakespeare

Home by Anton Chekhov *

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The Hunchback of Notre Dome by Victor Hugo

The Iliad by Homer

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde*

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott

Jane Eyre by Jane Austen *

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The Last of the Mohikans by James Fenimore Cooper

Leaves of Grass by Walt Witman

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

 

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Metamorphosis by Kafka *

Metamorphosos by Ovid

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
The Mill of the Floss by George Eliot

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The Nose by Nikolai Goglol *

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Odyssey by Homer *

Oedipus the King by Sophocles *

Othello by William Shakespeare

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen *

Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Robinsón Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe

The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne *

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Society and Solitude by Ralph Waldo Emerson *

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Tartuffe by Jean-Baptiste Moliere *

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitgerald

Tess of the d’Urderville by Thomas Hardy

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The Tragedy of Faust by Johann von Goethe

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by Shakespeare *

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of MacBeth by William Shakespeare *

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Utopia by Sir Thomas More

Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

Walden Henry David Thoreau *

The White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett *

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte