Ozma of Oz
The 3rd Oz novel, published in 1907. While traveling to Australia, Dorothy is swept overboard and lands in Ev, a country across the desert from Oz.
Read free →Public Domain Books
Browse our collection of 271 free public domain books, sourced from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks. Each title is hosted on Laterpress and free to read.
Paradise Lost
Published in 1667, this epic poem consists of over 10,000 lines of verse. The story has two narrative arcs, one about Satan, and the other about Adam…
Read free →Pellucidar
Pellucidar, the sequel to At the Earth’s Core, was published in 1915. It continues the adventures of David Innes as he returns to the hollow interior…
Read free →Piccadilly Jim
Piccadilly Jim, by P. G. Wodehouse, was first published on February 24, 1917 by Dodd, Mead and Company in New York. It was subsequently published in…
Read free →Poirot Investigates
Published in 1924. This short story collection features eleven mysteries, all starring Hercule Poirot.
Read free →Poor Folk
In 1840s St. Petersburg the ageing copyist Makar Dievushkin is, with various degrees of subtlety, trying to woo Barbara Dobroselova, a young woman…
Read free →Pride & Prejudice
The novel follows Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters after a pair of rich bachelors take up residence in a nearby country estate.
Read free →Psmith in the City
Mike Jackson is a rising cricket star who finds his dreams of studying and playing at Cambridge upset by news of his father’s financial troubles. He…
Read free →Psmith, Journalist
Growing bored while accompanying his Cambridge chum Mike on a cricket tour of the United States, Psmith seeks adventure in New York City. He finds it…
Read free →Pygmalion
Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can teach flower girl Eliza Doolittle how to speak more eloquently, so people might believe she's a duchess, not a…
Read free →Rainbow Valley
Published in 1919, Rainbow Valley is the 5th book in the Anne of Green Gables series by publication date, 7th chronologically. Anne is now 41 years…
Read free →Resurrection
Resurrection, the last full-length novel written by Leo Tolstoy, was published in 1899 after ten years in the making. A humanitarian cause—the…
Read free →Riceyman Steps
Riceyman Steps, first published in 1923, is set in “dingy and sordid” Clerkenwell, in central London, where “existence was a dangerous and difficult…
Read free →Riders of the Purple Sage
Published in 1912, this novel is considered to have played a significant role in establishing the conventions of the Western genre. Set in southern…
Read free →Right Ho, Jeeves
Right Ho, Jeeves is the second novel to feature P. G. Wodehouse’s popular Bertie Wooster and Jeeves characters. Bertie, a member of the English upper…
Read free →Rilla of Ingleside
Published in 1921, Rilla of Ingleside is the sixth book in the Anne of Green Gables series by publication date. The novel is set during the backdrop…
Read free →Rip Van Winkle
Published in 1819, the story follows Rip Van Winkle, who falls asleep for 20 years, and wakes up to a very different world than the one he knew.
Read free →Round the Moon
This sequel to From the Earth to the Moon narrates the eventful journey to the Moon of three passengers—Impey Barbicane, president of the Gun Club,…
Read free →Satan's Diary
Satan has returned to Earth for a sightseeing visit in the form of the American billionaire Henry Wondergood. Accompanied by his faithful demon…
Read free →School Stories
School Stories is a collection of humorous short stories by P. G. Wodehouse that feature the trials, tribulations and adventures of the denizens of…
Read free →Shirley
Shirley, published in 1849, was Charlotte Brontë’s second novel after Jane Eyre. Shirley Keeldar is a remarkable female character for the time:…
Read free →Short Fiction - Leonid Andreyev
Leonid Andreyev was a Russian playwright and author of short stories and novellas, writing primarily in the first two decades of the 20th century.…
Read free →Short Fiction (P.G. Wodehouse)
P. G. Wodehouse was an incredibly prolific writer who sold short stories to publications around the world throughout his career. The settings of his…
Read free →Siddhartha
Published in 1922, the novel details the spiritual journey of self-discovery of the titular character, Siddhartha. It wasn't published in the United…
Read free →Silas Marner
In Silas Marner, author George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) introduces an embittered linen weaver who withdraws from society after a…
Read free →Some Do Not …
Some Do Not … opens at the cusp of World War I. Christopher Tietjens, a government statistician, and his friend Vincent Macmaster, an aspiring…
Read free →Something New
Something New is the first novel of what became known as the “Blandings Castle Saga” by P. G. Wodehouse and was published in the United States in…
Read free →Space Viking
Initially serialized in Analog magazine between 1962 and 1963, Space Viking takes place after the events of The Cosmic Computer. Space Viking is a…
Read free →Struggles and Triumphs
Struggles and Triumphs is the autobiography of P. T. Barnum, the celebrated American showman. Barnum has an engaging style, and his autobiography is…
Read free →Summer
Edith Wharton’s controversial novel Summer is the story of Charity Royall, an ambitious young woman trapped in a stifling small town by both her…
Read free →Tarzan and the Golden Lion
The ninth Tarzan novel. First serialized in Argosy All-Story Weekly in seven parts, beginning December 1922.
Read free →Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
The fifth Tarzan novel. First serialized in All-Story Cavalier Weekly in November and December 1916. Tarzan ventures to the land of Opar, seeking…
Read free →Tarzan of the Apes
First serialized in The All-Story starting October 1912, published as a novel in 1914. The first appearance of Tarzan, detailing his childhood being…
Read free →Tarzan the Terrible
The eight Tarzan novel. First serialized in Argosy All-Story Weekly in February and March 1921. Set two months after Tarzan the Untamed, Tarzan…
Read free →Tarzan the Untamed
The seventh Tarzan novel. Set after Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. First serialized as two separate stories - "Tarzan and the Huns" in Redbook from…
Read free →Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Said to be Thomas Hardy’s fictional masterpiece and is considered an important nineteenth century novel. It explores themes of love, sex, class and…
Read free →The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Published on October 14th, 1892, this collection features the earliest short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. Each story was first published in The…
Read free →The Age of Innocence
Upper-class New York gentleman Newland Archer is set to wed May Welland in a picture-perfect union when the bride’s cousin, Ellen Olenska, returns…
Read free →The Ambassadors
A middle-aged man named Lambert Strether is sent to Paris by his wealthy wife-to-be in order to convince her son Chad to return home to America and…
Read free →The Art of Money Getting
P. T. Barnum, the legendary entertainer and co-founder of the Barnum and Bailey Circus, was not just a successful businessman, but a philanthropist…
Read free →The Beasts of Tarzan
The third Tarzan tale, first serialized in All-Story Cavalier in 1914. Published as a novel in 1916. The story begins a year after the events of The…
Read free →The Beautiful and Damned
Anthony Patch, the grandson of a wealthy businessman, spends his youth in idle relaxation expecting to inherit his grandfather’s fortune. But when he…
Read free →The Big Four
“The American Soap King” has offered Hercule Poirot a ridiculous amount of money to investigate some dodgy business in South America. But right…
Read free →The Black Star Passes
In the year 2126, scientists Arcot and Morey chase a sky pirate—and invent the technology to travel through space. In the second story, the heroes…
Read free →The Blue Castle
In Valancy Stirling’s rural Ontario town, marriage is thought to be a young woman’s vital accomplishment. Yet Valancy, now in her late 20s, has never…
Read free →The Book of Wonder
The Book of Wonder is one of Lord Dunsany’s many collections of fantasy short stories. While many of his collections were illustrated, this…
Read free →The Brothers Karamazov
Dmitri Karamazov and his father Fyodor are at war over both Dmitri’s inheritance and the affections of the beautiful Grushenka. Into this feud arrive…
Read free →The Call of the Canyon
This 1924 novel tell the story of Glenn Kilbourne, a US Army veteran returned home, adjusting to life in the aftermath of his combat experiences in…
Read free →The Call of the Wild
Published in 1903, the novel takes place during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. The novel's major protagonist is Buck, a St. Bernard-Scotch Collie mix,…
Read free →The Cask of Amontillado
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. (Published 1846)
Read free →The Castle of Otranto
Generally regarded as the first gothic novel, Walpole was inspired to write the book after having a nightmare. When Manfred's son Conrad is crushed…
Read free →The Chessmen of Mars
The Chessmen of Mars, the fifth installment in the Martian series, introduces Tara, Princess of Helium, the headstrong daughter of John Carter, the…
Read free →The Child of the Cavern
The Child of the Cavern follows engineer James Starr as he receives a letter from an old friend and co-worker, Simon Ford, requesting that he revisit…
Read free →The Club of Queer Trades
Charles Swinburne and his friend, the private detective Rupert Grant, are startled when Major Brown recounts the things that happened to him that…
Read free →The Confessions of Arsène Lupin
The gentleman-thief Arsène Lupin returns in this set of ten short stories to confess—or perhaps boast about—his crimes to the unnamed narrator.…
Read free →The Cosmic Computer
The Cosmic Computer is a 1963 science fiction novel by H. Beam Piper. The action largely takes place on the planet Poictesme, which is full of…
Read free →The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
This is a collection of 33 fantasy and science fiction stories, written between 1894 and 1909, published as a collection in 1911. All of the stories…
Read free →The Cream of the Jest
The Cream of the Jest is a later entry in James Branch Cabell’s Dom Manuel series. The series as a whole is a fantasy series, and this entry takes a…
Read free →The Crystal Stopper
Arsène Lupin’s attempted robbery of the deputy Daubrecq has gone horribly wrong, leaving behind a murdered man and two of his accomplices in the…
Read free →The Dead Secret
The Dead Secret is Wilkie Collins’ fourth novel. Like many of Collins’ books, it features incidents and themes which were considered to be…
Read free →The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories
Released in 1911, this collection features 7 short stories and the novelette "The Country of the Blind."
Read free →The Eight Strokes of the Clock
Trying to escape from her boring life, Hortense Daniel meets the mysterious Prince Rénine (or should we say Arsène Lupin?) who enlists her help to…
Read free →The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
The first collection of Lupin stories, released in 1907. Arsène Lupin, with his characteristic wit, plots over the course of nine short stories to…
Read free →The Fall of the House of Usher
A short story by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1839. As a work of Gothic fiction, it includes themes of isolation and madness amidst physical decay.
Read free →The Gambler
In the fictional town of Roulettenberg, Germany, a Russian tutor to the children of a seemingly wealthy general is enticed to play roulette at the…
Read free →The Gods of Mars
First serialized in The All-Story from January to May, 1913. The second book in the Barsoom series, John Carter returns to Mars 10 years after the…
Read free →The Gods of Pegāna
The Gods of Pegāna, Lord Dunsany’s first published book, is a strange and wondrous creation. In it he creates the pantheon of gods who rule over the…
Read free →The Golden Bowl
In The Golden Bowl, an impoverished Italian aristocrat comes to London to marry a wealthy American, but meets an old mistress before the wedding and…
Read free →The Golden Triangle
Captain Belval, learning of a threat to his beloved nurse Little Mother Coralie, rescues her from her would-be assailants and is promptly dragged…
Read free →The Good Soldier
At the height of belle époque Europe, an American couple—the narrator John Dowell and his wife Florence–and a British couple–Leonora and the titular…
Read free →The Grand Babylon Hotel
When Theodore Racksole—one of the richest men in America, and consequently the world—sits down in London’s Grand Babylon Hotel and orders a beefsteak…
Read free →The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway is a young Midwestern man freshly arrived in New York to make his fortune. He rents a shabby apartment in Long Island next door to a…
Read free →The Happy Prince, and Other Tales
Published in 1888, this collection includes five short stories. The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted…
Read free →The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire tells the story of the Roman Empire from the time of Trajan in the third century to the fall…
Read free →The Hollow Needle
In this first full-length Arsène Lupin novel the gentleman-thief remains a shadowy figure for most of the novel, working two steps beyond the law…
Read free →The Hound of the Baskervilles
The third Sherlock Holmes novel, set before the events of the short story "The Final Problem." First serialized in The Strand Magazine from August…
Read free →The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth is Edith Wharton’s biting critique of New York’s upper classes around the end of the 19th century. The novel follows socialite…
Read free →The House of the Seven Gables
Published in 1851, Hawthorne's novel tackles themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement. The undertone of supernatural forces and witchcraft would…
Read free →The Humbugs of the World
Barnum himself was often called the “Prince of Humbugs,” but he was no cynic. In this book he sets out to make his fellow citizens a little wiser via…
Read free →The Idiot
The novel follows the entrance of the epileptic Prince Muishkin—a character Dostoevsky meant to represent a “positively good and beautiful man”—into…
Read free →The Iliad
The story of the final weeks of Troy. Translated by Samuel Butler.
Read free →The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde's play was first performed on February 14th, 1895 at St James's Theater in London. A farcical comedy satirizing the social conventions of…
Read free →The Innocence of Father Brown
Father Brown is a Catholic priest, but a slightly unusual one in that he’s also an amateur detective. Unlike his more famous literary cousin…
Read free →The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance
First serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, and released as a complete novel that same year. The book start Griffin, a scientist devoted to the…
Read free →The Iron Heel
First published in 1908, The Iron Heel is a work of dystopian science fiction, depicting class warfare in American and around the world.
Read free →The Island of Doctor Moreau
Published in 1896, this science fiction novel is the earliest example of the "uplift" trope - where a more advanced race uses their technology to…
Read free →The Jewel of Seven Stars
A horror novel published in 1903, in which a young man is drawn into an archeologist's plot to revive an ancient Egyptian mummy. The book explores…
Read free →The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book is a collection of stories first published in magazines in 1893-94. The majority of the cast are animals, each representing a…
Read free →The King of Elfland's Daughter
The people of the obscure village Erl demand to be ruled by a magic lord, so their ruler sends his son Alveric to Elfland to wed the elfin princess…
Read free →The Kingdom of God Is Within You
The Kingdom of God Is Within You is the most influential work of Christian anarchism. It might be considered the founding work of that tradition if…
Read free →The Lair of the White Worm
Bram Stoker's final novel, published in 1911, a year before his death. Based on the legend of the Lambton Worm, the novel was widely panned by the…
Read free →The Land That Time Forgot
The Land That Time Forgot opens with the discovery near Greenland of a floating thermos flask containing a manuscript by castaway Tyler Bowen, Jr.…
Read free →The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
First published in 1819, the story has earned enduring popularity due to the Headless Horseman, a Hessian soldier believed to have been decapitated…
Read free →The Lost World
First published in Strand Magazine from April-November 1912. The Lost Word tells the tale of an expedition to a region of the Amazon where dinosaurs…
Read free →The Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons, winner of the 1919 Pulitzer prize, is considered by many to be Booth Tarkington’s finest novel and an American classic.…
Read free →The Man in the Brown Suit
Published in 1924. Anne Beddingfeld sees a man die in a London Tube station, and fiends a dropped piece of paper that sets her on an adventure to…
Read free →The Man of the Forest
Published in 1920, it tells the tale of a camper in the forest who sets off to save a young woman from an man who wants to kill her, and take her…
Read free →The Man Who Was Thursday
Sometimes described as thrilling, sometimes as comic, and sometimes as metaphysical or spiritual, The Man Who Was Thursday is perhaps a little of…
Read free →The Marvelous Land of Oz
The 2nd Oz novel, published in 1904. Tip escapes from an evil witch and goes on an adventure with Scarecrow and Tin Woodman to recapture his throne.
Read free →The Mayor of Casterbridge
Like many of Hardy’s novels, The Mayor of Casterbridge is set in the fictional county of Wessex in the mid 1800s. It begins with Michael Henchard, a…
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