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Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen · 61 parts · full audio

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · 32 parts · full audio

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll · 13 parts · full audio

Hamlet

William Shakespeare · 6 parts

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle · 12 parts · full audio

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 11 parts · full audio

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte · 40 parts · full audio

Dracula

Bram Stoker · 30 parts · full audio

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens · 6 parts · full audio

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 41 parts

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare · 7 parts

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain · 43 parts

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas · 117 parts

Macbeth

William Shakespeare · 6 parts

Relativity: The Special and General Theory

Albert Einstein · 37 parts

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 21 parts · full audio

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 139 parts

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte · 34 parts

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott · 50 parts · full audio

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 10 parts

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes · 132 parts

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 97 parts

Les Miserables

Victor Hugo · 366 parts

The Art of War

Sun Tzu · 21 parts

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle · 16 parts

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain · 37 parts

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens · 46 parts

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 239 parts

The Odyssey

Homer · 25 parts

Democracy in America, Vol. 1

Alexis de Tocqueville · 43 parts

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens · 59 parts

Peter Pan

J. M. Barrie · 17 parts

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum · 25 parts

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson · 36 parts

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · 365 parts

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri · 101 parts

The Iliad

Homer · 25 parts

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius · 12 parts

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith · 51 parts

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells · 13 parts · full audio

Winnie-the-Pooh

A. A. Milne · 12 parts

The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli · 29 parts

Tao Te Ching

Laozi · 86 parts

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides · 8 parts

The Call of the Wild

Jack London · 8 parts

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling · 8 parts

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe · 20 parts

The Republic

Plato · 10 parts

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle · 14 parts

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift · 41 parts

Discourse on the Method

René Descartes · 7 parts

Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill · 5 parts

The Story of My Life

Helen Keller · 135 parts

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad · 3 parts

The Travels of Marco Polo, Vol. 1

Marco Polo · 115 parts

Opticks

Isaac Newton · 8 parts

Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson · 12 parts

Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks

Rudyard Kipling · 10 parts

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not

Florence Nightingale · 17 parts

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 26 parts

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens · 67 parts

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens · 53 parts

Middlemarch

George Eliot · 97 parts

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam · 4 parts

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan · 11 parts

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals

Immanuel Kant · 4 parts

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

David Hume · 12 parts

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass · 28 parts

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin A. Abbott · 22 parts

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Jerome K. Jerome · 20 parts

The Imitation of Christ

Thomas à Kempis · 114 parts

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams · 37 parts

Two Years Before the Mast

Richard Henry Dana Jr. · 39 parts

The Compleat Angler

Izaak Walton · 7 parts

The Elements of Style

William Strunk Jr. · 7 parts

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

Suetonius · 13 parts

Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer

Zhuangzi · 35 parts

How I Found Livingstone

Henry M. Stanley · 17 parts

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant · 71 parts

Pensées

Blaise Pascal · 14 parts

The Voyage of the Beagle

Charles Darwin · 22 parts

Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey · 5 parts

The Malay Archipelago, Vol. 1

Alfred Russel Wallace · 21 parts

The Cruise of the Snark

Jack London · 18 parts

The Book of Household Management

Isabella Beeton · 45 parts

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

Fannie Merritt Farmer · 40 parts

The Enchiridion

Epictetus · 51 parts

The Prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope · 22 parts

North of Boston

Robert Frost · 17 parts

Micrographia

Robert Hooke · 63 parts

Talks to Teachers on Psychology

William James · 19 parts

Woodcraft and Camping

George Washington Sears · 11 parts

Emma

Jane Austen · 56 parts · full audio

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen · 50 parts · full audio

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy · 68 parts

Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery · 38 parts

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett · 27 parts

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame · 12 parts

Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll · 15 parts

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm · 202 parts

The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan · 5 parts

Paradise Lost

John Milton · 12 parts

The Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane · 24 parts

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton · 12 parts

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton · 34 parts

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1 parts

The Awakening

Kate Chopin · 39 parts

My Antonia

Willa Cather · 48 parts

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois · 17 parts

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass · 14 parts

Walden

Henry David Thoreau · 18 parts

A Shropshire Lad

A. E. Housman · 64 parts

Orthodoxy

G. K. Chesterton · 10 parts

The Worst Journey in the World

Apsley Cherry-Garrard · 21 parts

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius · 80 parts

Goblin Market and Other Poems

Christina Rossetti · 137 parts

Sailing Alone Around the World

Joshua Slocum · 21 parts

Anabasis

Xenophon · 7 parts

Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar

Jules Verne · 32 parts

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

Ernest Shackleton · 21 parts

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin · 19 parts

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels · 6 parts

Common Sense

Thomas Paine · 6 parts

Ulysses

James Joyce · 18 parts

Dubliners

James Joyce · 15 parts

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf · 1 parts

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner · 4 parts

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway · 42 parts

Passing

Nella Larsen · 12 parts

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque · 13 parts

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 22 parts

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy · 12 parts

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Victor Hugo · 61 parts

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas · 69 parts

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert · 36 parts

Candide

Voltaire · 31 parts

Faust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 30 parts

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 3 parts

The Arabian Nights

Traditional (Arabian folk tales) · 35 parts

The Bhagavad Gita

Attributed to Vyasa · 19 parts

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran · 29 parts

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche · 11 parts

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott · 47 parts

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

Jules Verne · 46 parts

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne · 37 parts

King Solomon's Mines

H. Rider Haggard · 23 parts

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy · 32 parts

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde · 5 parts

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs · 29 parts

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie · 14 parts

The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins · 55 parts

Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle · 12 parts

The Analects

Confucius · 20 parts

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray · 68 parts

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 50 parts

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells · 29 parts

The Invisible Man

H. G. Wells · 29 parts

The Island of Doctor Moreau

H. G. Wells · 23 parts

The Man Who Was Thursday

G. K. Chesterton · 16 parts

The Innocence of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton · 13 parts

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe · 45 parts

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper · 34 parts

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson · 32 parts

She

H. Rider Haggard · 30 parts

Ben-Hur

Lew Wallace · 89 parts

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton · 29 parts

The Germany and the Agricola

Tacitus · 3 parts

History of the Conquest of Mexico, Vol. 1

William H. Prescott · 13 parts

The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol. 1

Bernal Díaz del Castillo · 138 parts

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark · 31 parts

The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid

Euclid · 8 parts

The Sidereal Messenger

Galileo Galilei · 4 parts

The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms

Charles Darwin · 8 parts

The Naturalist on the River Amazons

Henry Walter Bates · 15 parts

Mathematical Recreations and Essays

W. W. Rouse Ball · 16 parts

The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Francis Bacon · 60 parts

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini · 242 parts

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie · 30 parts

The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson

Robert Southey · 11 parts

The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Vol. 1

Elizabeth Gaskell · 14 parts

The Making of an American

Jacob A. Riis · 17 parts

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Isabella L. Bird · 17 parts

Through the Brazilian Wilderness

Theodore Roosevelt · 14 parts

My First Summer in the Sierra

John Muir · 11 parts

Travels in West Africa

Mary Kingsley · 26 parts

Knots, Splices and Rope Work

A. Hyatt Verrill · 8 parts

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee

L. L. Langstroth · 19 parts

The Art of Public Speaking

J. Berg Esenwein and Dale Carnegie · 36 parts

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare · 6 parts

Othello

William Shakespeare · 6 parts

Beowulf

Anonymous · 45 parts

Heidi

Johanna Spyri · 23 parts

Black Beauty

Anna Sewell · 49 parts

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett · 20 parts

Andersen's Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen · 18 parts

Aesop's Fables

Aesop · 285 parts

The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens · 58 parts

Bleak House

Charles Dickens · 68 parts

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair · 32 parts

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James · 56 parts

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James · 25 parts

The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle · 18 parts

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 22 parts

A Room with a View

E. M. Forster · 20 parts

Howards End

E. M. Forster · 44 parts

Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence · 15 parts

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald · 12 parts

Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham · 122 parts

Silas Marner

George Eliot · 23 parts

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot · 59 parts

Villette

Charlotte Bronte · 42 parts

Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy · 58 parts

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell · 52 parts

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Bronte · 54 parts

Winesburg, Ohio

Sherwood Anderson · 26 parts

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill · 8 parts

Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington · 20 parts

The Wisdom of Life

Arthur Schopenhauer · 5 parts

The Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell · 16 parts

Pragmatism

William James · 9 parts

Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne · 107 parts

The Oregon Trail

Francis Parkman · 27 parts

The Gallic Wars

Julius Caesar · 9 parts

Twenty Years at Hull-House

Jane Addams · 19 parts

The Chemical History of a Candle

Michael Faraday · 8 parts

The Life of the Spider

Jean-Henri Fabre · 16 parts

Calculus Made Easy

Silvanus P. Thompson · 27 parts

The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White · 111 parts

My Man Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse · 8 parts

The Enchanted April

Elizabeth von Arnim · 22 parts

Cranford

Elizabeth Gaskell · 16 parts

The Country of the Pointed Firs

Sarah Orne Jewett · 21 parts

Beasts and Super-Beasts

Saki · 35 parts

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

Karel Čapek · 5 parts

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins · 73 parts

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar · 424 parts

The Practice of the Presence of God

Brother Lawrence · 19 parts

The Riddle of the Sands

Erskine Childers · 30 parts

The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James · 16 parts

In His Steps

Charles M. Sheldon · 31 parts

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

Arnold Bennett · 13 parts

Self-Help

Samuel Smiles · 15 parts

The Art of Money Getting

P. T. Barnum · 21 parts

As a Man Thinketh

James Allen · 8 parts

Acres of Diamonds

Russell H. Conwell · 12 parts

Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev · 28 parts

Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol · 17 parts

The Aeneid

Virgil · 12 parts

Pere Goriot

Honore de Balzac · 2 parts

Eugene Onegin

Alexander Pushkin · 11 parts

The Story of Mankind

Hendrik Willem van Loon · 65 parts

A Short History of the World

H. G. Wells · 67 parts

Ten Days That Shook the World

John Reed · 26 parts

The History of Herodotus, Vol. 1

Herodotus · 5 parts

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1

Edward Gibbon · 19 parts

The French Revolution: A History

Thomas Carlyle · 159 parts

The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay · 85 parts

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England

Bede · 145 parts

A History of Freedom of Thought

J. B. Bury · 8 parts

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Charles Darwin · 25 parts

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Charles Darwin · 15 parts

Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

Thomas Henry Huxley · 1 parts

Science and Hypothesis

Henri Poincaré · 16 parts

Treatise on Light

Christiaan Huygens · 8 parts

An Introduction to Mathematics

Alfred North Whitehead · 19 parts

Principles of Geology

Charles Lyell · 52 parts

The Mason-Bees

Jean-Henri Fabre · 12 parts

On the Various Forces of Nature

Michael Faraday · 9 parts

Apology

Plato · 2 parts

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau · 1 parts

The Dhammapada

Traditional · 26 parts

Second Treatise of Government

John Locke · 20 parts

The Social Contract and Discourses

Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 59 parts

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft · 16 parts

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche · 82 parts

Leviathan

Thomas Hobbes · 50 parts

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin · 24 parts

The Confessions of St. Augustine

Augustine of Hippo · 13 parts

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet A. Jacobs · 44 parts

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert · 31 parts

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano · 13 parts

Autobiography

John Stuart Mill · 7 parts

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

John Muir · 8 parts

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans

Plutarch · 68 parts

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

Robert Louis Stevenson · 17 parts

Roughing It

Mark Twain · 82 parts

White Fang

Jack London · 25 parts

Scott's Last Expedition, Vol. 1

Robert Falcon Scott · 21 parts

The South Pole, Vol. 1

Roald Amundsen · 11 parts

Farthest North, Vol. 1

Fridtjof Nansen · 9 parts

Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 1

Mungo Park · 16 parts

A Journey into the Interior of the Earth

Jules Verne · 46 parts

Boy Scouts Handbook

Boy Scouts of America · 13 parts

The Elements of Drawing

John Ruskin · 7 parts

How to Speak and Write Correctly

Joseph Devlin · 16 parts

Bookbinding, and the Care of Books

Douglas Cockerell · 26 parts

The Practical Garden-Book

C. E. Hunn and L. H. Bailey · 22 parts

New Ideas for American Boys: The Jack of All Trades

Daniel Carter Beard · 26 parts

Carpentry for Boys

J. S. Zerbe · 23 parts

How to Study and Teaching How to Study

Frank M. McMurry · 12 parts

That completes the shelf: 300 classics, every one free, in full, with audio where we can find a great public domain recording.

Every book here is in the public domain. Texts from Standard Ebooks and Project Gutenberg. Recordings from LibriVox.