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A free, independent reading room. 72 prepared editions and 12,000 source edition records, with texts sourced from Project Gutenberg. Full texts are currently available in the U.S.

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• The Time Machine — H. G. Wells
• Dracula — Bram Stoker
• Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë
• A Room with a View — E. M. Forster
• The Mysterious Affair at Styles — Agatha Christie
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass
• The Yellow Wallpaper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
• Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands — Mary Seacole
• The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Black Beauty — Anna Sewell
• The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories — Kate Chopin
• Peter Pan — J. M. Barrie
• Flatland — Edwin A. Abbott
• The Light Princess — George MacDonald
• Frankenstein — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl — Harriet Jacobs
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum
• Persuasion — Jane Austen
• Ethan Frome — Edith Wharton
• The Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling
• The Lost World — Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Invisible Man — H. G. Wells
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain
• Little Women — Louisa May Alcott
• The Railway Children — E. Nesbit
• The Souls of Black Folk — W. E. B. Du Bois
• The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
• Five Children and It — E. Nesbit
• The Call of the Wild — Jack London
• The Island of Doctor Moreau — H. G. Wells
• Up from Slavery — Booker T. Washington
• Anne of Green Gables — L. M. Montgomery
• Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë
• Emma — Jane Austen
• Gulliver’s Travels — Jonathan Swift
• Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen
• Mansfield Park — Jane Austen
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson
• Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen
• A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
• The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
• A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens
• Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens
• The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court — Mark Twain
• Kidnapped — Robert Louis Stevenson
• Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
• White Fang — Jack London
• The Sea-Wolf — Jack London
• Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea — Jules Verne
• The First Men in the Moon — H. G. Wells
• The Sign of the Four — Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen Crane
• A Study in Scarlet — Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll
• The Castle of Otranto — Horace Walpole
• The Turn of the Screw — Henry James
• The War of the Worlds — H. G. Wells
• The Princess and the Goblin — George MacDonald
• The Story of the Treasure Seekers — E. Nesbit
• Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Secret Adversary — Agatha Christie
• The House of Mirth — Edith Wharton
• Walden — Henry David Thoreau
• The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Twelve Years a Slave — Solomon Northup