The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
This is the second collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories. Each of the 12 tales was first published in The Strand Magazine between December 1892…
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The Mill on the Floss
Published in 1860, The Mill on the Floss was the second novel published by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans). Set in the late 1820s or…
Read free →The Moonstone
The “Moonstone” of the title is a large but flawed diamond, looted from India at the time of the Mutiny by an unscrupulous British officer. Many…
Read free →The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Hercule Poirot has retired to the English village of King’s Abbot, determined to use his little grey cells in the growing of vegetable marrows. But…
Read free →The Murder on the Links
Published in 1923. The second Hercule Poirot novel. Poirot and Arthur Hastings travel to France in response to a request for help from Paul Renauld,…
Read free →The Mysteries of Udolpho
Published in four volumes in 1794, The Mysteries of Udolpho is often held up as the archetypal gothic novel, complete with a scheming villain,…
Read free →The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Published in 1920. This is Agatha Christie's first novel, and the introduction of Hercule Poirot. When the woman who helped him establish his new…
Read free →The Mysterious Island
Published in 1875, the novel is a crossover sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, and In Search of the Castaways. Despite the fact that…
Read free →The Mysterious Rider
A tale of romance and adventure published in 1921. Columbine has agreed to marry her foster father's son, Jack. However, her heart truly belongs to…
Read free →The Mystery of the Sea
First published in 1902, The Mystery of the Sea tells the story of an Englishman who falls in love with an American heiress, set during the…
Read free →The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The Napoleon of Notting Hill, like so many Chesterton novels, deftly straddles the fence between humor and philosophy. The place is London, in the…
Read free →The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Edgar Allan Poe is famed for his unsettling short stories, but he also wrote a full-length novel, his only one: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of…
Read free →The Old Wives’ Tale
The Old Wives’ Tale, considered to be one of Bennett’s finest works, begins in the 1860s, in the industrial “Five Towns” of the English Midlands,…
Read free →The People of the Abyss
Published in 1903, this is a non-fiction book made up of London's firsthand accounts of life in the East End of London. At the time, "the Abyss,"…
Read free →The Pickwick Papers
In 1836, publisher Chapman & Hall asked Dickens to write descriptions to a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by Robert Seymour, and connect…
Read free →The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde's only novel, published in April 1891. Dorian Gray pursues a life of hedonism and debauchery, hoping to remain young and beautiful…
Read free →The Plymouth Express Affair
This short story was first published in April 1923 in The Sketch. It would later be expanded upon to become the novel "The Mystery of the Blue Train."
Read free →The Pothunters
In this, his first novel, P. G. Wodehouse offers a glimpse into the insular world of an English public school scandalized by a recent burglary of its…
Read free →The Power of Darkness
The Power of Darkness is a five-act drama that follows the downfall of the peasants Anísya and Nikíta as they succumb to a series of sordid…
Read free →The Rainbow Trail
Also known as The Desert Crucible, this 1915 novel is a sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage, set ten years after the events of that novel.
Read free →The Red Room
A short gothic horror story, written by H.G. Wells in 1894, and published in the March 1896 issue of The Idler magazine. A man ignores the warning of…
Read free →The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The third Sherlock Holmes short story collection, published in 1905. Due to popular demand for more Holmes stories, the collection undid Sherlock's…
Read free →The Return of Tarzan
The second Tarzan novel, first published in New Story Magazine from June to December 1913. The story picks up soon after the events of the first book.
Read free →The Scarlet Letter
Published in 1850, the novel is set in a Puritan colony from 1642 to 1649. The story follows Hester Prynne, who gives birth to a child out of…
Read free →The Sea-Wolf
Published in 1904, The Sea-Wolf tells the tale of Humphrey Van Weyden, a literary critic who survives a crash at sea, only to be rescued by the…
Read free →The Secret Adversary
Published in 1922. Introduces Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley, who appear in other Christie novels. The New York Times Book review…
Read free →The Secret Garden
First published in 1911, the novel follows Mary Lennox through her rough childhood in British India, and her return to England after a cholera…
Read free →The Secret of Chimneys
Published in 1925. Part murder mystery, part treasure hunt, reviewers of the time described it as a "first-class romp" and one of Christie's best…
Read free →The Secret of Sarek
While watching a film, Véronique d’Hergemont spots her childhood signature mysteriously written on the side of a hut in the background of a scene.…
Read free →The Secret Tomb
When Dorothy, ropedancer and palmist, arrives at the Château de Roborey with her circus, she’s already observed strange excavations at the grounds.…
Read free →The Sign of the Four
The second Sherlock Holmes novel, first published in February, 1890.
Read free →The Skylark of Space
The Skylark of Space is said to be the seminal space opera. Dr. Seaton accidentally discovers a source of energy which could be used to travel to…
Read free →The Son of Tarzan
The fourth Tarzan novel. First serialized in All-Story Weekly in six parts, from December 1915 to January 1916. This is the only novel in the Tarzan…
Read free →The Song of the Lark
The Song of the Lark, Willa Cather’s third novel, was written in 1915. It is said to have been inspired by the real-life soprano Olive Fremstad, a…
Read free →The Story of Doctor Dolittle
John Dolittle, MD, is a respected physician in a small English village. As he suffers financial hardship, he learns how to speak with animals, and…
Read free →The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A novella of gothic horror first published in 1886. Legal practitioner Gabriel John Utterson investigates events linking Dr. Henry Jekyll to the…
Read free →The Survivors of the Chancellor
Desiring a more romantic crossing of the Atlantic, Englishman J. R. Kazallon decides to forgo a steamship and instead sets sail on the Chancellor, a…
Read free →The Teeth of the Tiger
The fortunes of Don Luis Perenna seem set to only increase after the will of his friend, Cosmo Mornington, is read. Perenna stands to benefit by one…
Read free →The Thirty-Nine Steps
Published in 1915, The Thirty-Nine Steps is a thriller set in Britain on the eve of the First World War. The Thirty-Nine Steps was immediately…
Read free →The Time Machine
Published in 1895, The Time Machine popularized the concept of time travel. The text recounts a time traveler's journey into the far future.
Read free →The Turmoil
Bibbs is the dreamy, sensitive son of Mr. Sheridan, a cigar-chomping, larger-than-life businessman in the turn-of-the-century American Midwest.…
Read free →The Turn of the Screw
One of the most famous ghost stories in literature, The Turn of the Screw earned its place in the annals of influential English novellas not for its…
Read free →The Vampyre
Written in 1819, based on a story Lord Byron told as part of a contest between himself, Polidori, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley. An early vampire…
Read free →The Voyage Out
Miss Rachel Vinrace, aged twenty-four and previously interested only in music, is on a voyage both literal and metaphorical. An ocean cruise with her…
Read free →The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
After discovering an injured squirrel, young Tommy Stubbins is introduced to Doctor Dolittle. Enamored by the Doctor’s ability to speak with animals…
Read free →The War of the Worlds
First serialized in 1897 in Pearson's Magazine in the UK, and Cosmopolitan in the US. The War of the Words chronicles the invasion of England by…
Read free →The Way of All Flesh
The Way of All Flesh is often considered to be Samuel Butler’s masterpiece, and is frequently included in many lists of best English-language novels…
Read free →The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove is perhaps the most well-received of Henry James’s novels. First published in 1902, it follows Kate Croy and Merton Densher, an…
Read free →The Wisdom of Father Brown
Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton’s crime-solving Catholic priest, is back in this second collection of Father Brown short stories. In this collection,…
Read free →The Woman in White
The Woman in White tells the story of Walter Hartright, a young and impoverished drawing teacher who falls in love with his aristocratic pupil, Laura…
Read free →The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Published May 17, 1900. The first novel in the Oz series. Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz when she and her pet dog are swept up by a…
Read free →The Woodlanders
Grace Melbury, daughter of a rich local wood-trader, has been raised beyond her family through years of expensive education. Coming home, she finds…
Read free →This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise chronicles the coming of age of Amory Blaine, born to a wealthy midwestern family. It begins with Amory as a spoiled youth,…
Read free →Through the Looking-Glass
Published December 27th, 1871, this book is a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice enters a fantastical world by climbing through a…
Read free →Thuvia, Maid of Mars
Princess Thuvia of Ptarth and Prince Carthoris of Helium are in love. Fate, however, is against them: the princess is promised to another, the Jeddak…
Read free →Ticket No. 9672
Hulda, the daughter of an innkeeper in the Norwegian countryside, is engaged to Ole, a fisherman. When Ole fails to return, Hulda fears him dead,…
Read free →To the Last Man
Published in 1921, To the Last Man is a shortened version of the novel Tonto Basin. The story is based on actual events involving the Hashknife gang…
Read free →Topsy-Turvy
Two decades after Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, the Baltimore Gun Club returns with its sights on the North Pole’s…
Read free →Treasure Island
First serialized in Young Folks magazine between 1881-1882. Published as a novel in 1883. Many common elements of pirates in pop culture stem from…
Read free →Triplanetary
Hundreds of millions of years ago, two near-omnipotent alien races encountered each other, beginning a conflict that will shape the history of the…
Read free →Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Published in English in 1872. Many consider the depiction of Captain Nemo's underwater ship as ahead of its time, as it accurately describes many…
Read free →Twice-Told Tales
This short story collection is made up of stories which had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, thus the collections title. When…
Read free →Ukridge Stories
Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge is one of P. G. Wodehouse’s less famous characters. He first appears in Love Among the Chickens in 1906 and then…
Read free →Uncle Tom's Cabin
Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel's strong anti-slavery message helped fuel the abolitionist movement. The novel's legacy isn't free of…
Read free →Uneasy Money
Affable and honourable, Lord Dawlish is the second poorest peer in England, relying on his income as a club secretary. Claire Fenwick, his beautiful…
Read free →Villette
Charlotte Brontë’s last novel, Villette, is thought to be most closely modelled on her own experiences teaching in a pensionnat in Brussels, the…
Read free →War & Peace
The classic story of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and the toll the war takes on five aristocratic families. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude.
Read free →Warlord of Mars
The third book in the Barsoom series, it was first serialized in All-Story Magazine from December, 1913 to March, 1914. The story picks up…
Read free →What Is Art?
What Is Art? is an 1897 philosophical treatise by Leo Tolstoy that lays out his philosophy of aesthetics. Rejecting notions of aesthetics that center…
Read free →White Fang
First serialized in Outing magazine from May to October 1906. Most of the story is told from the point of view of the titular character, as White…
Read free →Winnie the Pooh
First published in 1926, Winnie the Pooh contains 10 short stories, which can each be read independently. In addition to Pooh, this book introduced…
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