This collection features free e-books, mostly classics, that you can read on your iPad/iPhone (purchase), Kindle (purchase), Nook (purchase) or other devices. It includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. To learn how to load books to your Kindle using the links below, please watch this video. This other video explains how to upload epub files to a Nook.
- Aeschylus – Prometheus Bound
- Aesop – Aesop’s Fables
- Andersen, Hans Christian – Andersen’s Fairy Tales
- Anonymous – Beowulf
- Anonymous – The Arabian Nights
- Aristophanes – The Clouds
- Arnold, Matthew – Culture and Anarchy
- Aristotle – Politics
- Asimov, Isaac – “Youth”
- Aurelius, Marcus – Meditations
- Austen, Jane – Emma
- Austen, Jane – Love and Friendship
- Austen, Jane – Mansfield Park
- Austen, Jane – Northanger Abbey
- Austen, Jane – Persuasion
- Austen, Jane – Pride & Prejudice
- Austen, Jane – Sense & Sensibility
- Balzac, Honoré de – Le Père Goriot
- Baudelaire, Charles – Les Fleurs du Mal (in French)
- Baudelaire, Charles – Les Fleurs du Mal (in English)
- Baudelaire, Charles – The Generous Gambler
- Baum, L. Frank – The Wizard of Oz
- Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot
- Blake, William – Selected Poems
- Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
- Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights
- Buchan, John – The Thirty Nine Steps
- Burke, Edmund – Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Burke, Edmund – On the Sublime and Beautiful
Learn how to load ebook (.mobi) files to your Kindle with this video:
- Carroll, Lewis – Alice in Wonderland
- Carver, Raymond – “Cathedral”
- Cervantes – Don Quixote
- iPad/iPhone (Vol 1 – Vol 2) – Kindle + Other Formats – Read Online
- Chandler, Raymond – “The Simple Art of Murder”
- Chaucer – Canterbury Tales
- Chekhov, Anton – Plays
- Chekhov, Anton – The Kiss
- Chekhov, Anton – The Lady with the Dog
- Chekhov, Anton – Uncle Vanya
- Chopin, Kate – The Awakening
- Christie, Agatha – The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Christie, Agatha – The Secret Adversary
- Coelho, Paulo – The Way of the Bow
- Coelho, Paulo – Warrior of the Light
- Coelho, Paulo – Assorted Texts (in different languages)
- Coleridge, Samuel – Ancient Mariner and Select Poems
- Conrad, Joseph – Lord Jim
- Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness
Learn how to load ebook epub files to your Nook with this video:
- Conrad, Joseph – The Secret Agent
- Conrad, Joseph – Victory
- Crane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage
- Dante – The Divine Comedy
- Darwin, Charles – On the Origin of Species
- Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
- Descartes, Rene – Discourse on the Method
- Dewey, John – Democracy & Education
- Dick, Philip K – “Beyond the Door”
- Dick, Philip K -”Beyond Lies the Wub”
- Dick, Philip K – “Mr. Spaceship”
- Dick, Philip K – “Piper in the Woods”
- Dick, Philip K– “Second Variety”
- Dick, Philip K – “The Crystal Crypt”
- Dick, Philip K – “The Defenders”
- Dick, Philip K – “The Eyes Have It”
- Dick, Philip K – “The Gun”
- Dick, Philip K – “The Skull”
- Dick, Philip K – “The Variable Man”
- Dickens, Charles – A Christmas Carol
- Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities
- Dickens, Charles – Bleak House
- Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield
- Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations
- Dickens, Charles – Hard Times
- Dickens, Charles – Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist
- Dickens, Charles – Our Mutual Friend
- Dickinson, Emily – Poems
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor – A Raw Youth (Translated by Constance Garnett)
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Brothers Karamazov
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Idiot
- Douglass, Frederick – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Doyle, Arthur Conan – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Dreiser, Theodore – An American Tragedy
- Dreiser, Theodore – Sister Carrie
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Count of Monte Cristo
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Man in the Iron Mask
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
- Charles, Eliot – The Harvard Classics (51 Volumes)
- Eliot, George – Daniel Deronda
- Eliot, George – Middlemarch
- Eliot, George – Silas Marner
- Eliot, TS – Poems (Including “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”)
- Eliot, TS – The Waste Land
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo – Essays
- Erasmus – The Praise of Folly
- Euripides – Medea
- Faulkner, William – The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Collected Stories
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Flappers and Philosophers
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Tales of the Jazz Age
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Tender is the Night
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Beautiful and Damned
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – This Side of Paradise
- Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary
- Flaubert, Gustave – Salammbo
- Forster, E.M. – A Room with a View
- Forster, E.M. – Howards End
- Forster, E.M. – The Machine Stops
- Foucault, Michel – Die Ordnung des Diskurses
- Franklin, Benjamin – Autobiography
- Freud, Sigmund – Dream Psychology
- Freud, Sigmund – Leonardo da Vinci
- Freud, Sigmund – Interpretation of Dreams
- Freud, Sigmund – Moses And Monotheism
- Frost, Robert – A Boy’s Life
- Gaiman, Neil – “A Study in Emerald”
- Gaiman, Neil – “Bitter Grounds”
- Gaiman, Neil – “Cinnamon”
- Gaiman, Neil – “I Cthulhu”
- Gaiman, Neil – “The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds”
- Gaiman, Neil – “The Day the Saucers Came”
- Gaiman, Neil – The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains
- Gibbon, Edward – The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
- Goethe – Faust
- Gogol, Nikolai – The Dead Souls
- Gogol, Nikolai – The Nose
- Grimm Brothers – Grimm’s Fairy Tales
- Hardy, Thomas – Collected Stories
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The House of the Seven Gables
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter
- Hegel, GWF – The Phenomenology of the Spirit
- Hemingway, Ernest – The First Forty Nine Stories
- Hemingway, Ernest – The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- Hayek, Friedrich – The Use of Knowledge in Society
- Herodotus, The History of Herodotus V. 1 (Macaulay translation)
- Herodotus, The History of Herodotus V. 2 (Macaulay translation)
- Hesse, Hermann – Siddhartha
- Hobbes, Thomas – Leviathan
- Homer – The Iliad
- Homer – The Odyssey
- Hughes, Langston and Hurston, Zora Neale – The Mule Bone
- Hugo, Victor – Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Hugo, Victor – Les Miserables
- Hume, David – A Treatise of Human Nature
- Hume, David – Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Hume, David – Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
- Hurston, Zora Neale – Poker
- Hurston, Zora Neale – Three Plays (Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing)
- Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
- Ibsen, Henrik – A Doll’s House
- Ibsen, Henrik – An Enemy of the People
- Ibsen, Henrik – Hedda Gabler
- Ibsen, Henrik – Peer Gynt
- Irving, Washington – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- James, Henry – The Ambassadors
- James, Henry – The Wings of the Dove
- iPad/iPhone Vol 1. and Vol. 2 – Read Online – Kindle + Other Formats
- James, Henry – Turn of the Screw
- James, William – Pragmatism
- James, William – Varieties of Religious Experience
- Joyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Joyce, James – Chamber Music
- Joyce, James – Dubliners
- Joyce, James – Finnegans Wake
- Joyce, James – Ulysses
- Kafka, Franz – “A Hunger Artist”
- Kafka, Franz – “In the Penal Colony”
- Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis
- Kafka, Franz – The Trial
- Kant, Immanuel – Critique of Judgement
- Kant, Immanuel – Critique of Practical Reason
- Kant, Immanuel – Critique of Pure Reason
- Kant, Immanuel – Perpetual Peace
- Kant, Immanuel – What is Enlightenment?
- Keynes, John Maynard – Economic Consequences of the Peace
- Keats, John – The Poems of John Keats
- iPad/iPhone – Kindle + Other Formats
- Keynes, John Maynard – The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- Kipling, Rudyard – Just So Stories for Little Children
- Kipling, Rudyard – Kim
- Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Book
- Lawrence, D.H –Lady Chatterley’s Lover
- iPad/iPhone – Kindle + Other Formats
- Lawrence, D.H. – Sons and Lovers
- Lawrence, D.H. – Women in Love
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude – Tristes tropiques
- Lewis, Sinclair – Babbitt
- Locke, John – Two Treatises of Government
- London, Jack – The Call of the Wild
- London, Jack – White Fang
- Lovecraft, HP – Collected Stories
- Lovecraft, HP – Supernatural Horror in Literature
- Lovecraft, HP – Free Complete, Works of H.P. Lovecraft
- Lucretius – On the Nature of the Things
- Machiavelli, Niccolò – The Prince
- Madison, Hamilton & Jay – The Federalist Papers –
- Marx and Engels – The Communist Manifesto
- Marx, Karl – The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
- Mitchell, Margaret – Gone with the Wind
- Melville, Herman – Billy Budd
- iPad/iPhone – Text – ZIP
- Melville, Herman – Moby Dick
- Mill, John Stuart – On Liberty
- Mill, John Stuart– On Liberty
- Mill, John Stuart – Utilitarianism
- Milton, John – Paradise Lost
- Milton, John – The Poetical World
- Mitchell, Margaret – Gone With the Wind
- Molière – Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
- Molière – Tartuffe
- Montesquieu – The Persian Letters
- Montesquieu – The Spirit of the Laws
- More, Thomas – Utopia
- Nabokov, Vladimir – “Cloud, Castle, Lake”
- Nabokov, Vladimir – “The Aurelian”
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – Beyond Good and Evil
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – Homer and Classical Philology
- Nietzsche, Freidrich – Human, All Too Human
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – The Anti Christ
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – The Case Against Wagner
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – The Gay Science
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – Thus Spake Zarathustra
- O’Neill, Eugene – Anna Christie
- O’Neill, Eugene – Beyond the Horizon
- O’Neill, Eugene – The Hairy Ape
- O’Neill, Eugene – The Iceman Cometh
- Orwell, George – 1984
- Orwell, George – Animal Farm
- Orwell, George – Collected Essays
- Orwell, George – Down and Out in Paris and London
- Orwell, George – Homage to Catalonia
- Orwell, George – Politics and the English Language
- Paine, Thomas – Common Sense
- Paine, Thomas – Rights of Man
- Plato – The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito of Plato
- Plato – The Republic
- Plutarch – Lives
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Complete Poetical Works
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven
- Pound, Ezra – Pavannes and Divisions
- Proust, Marcel – Swann’s Way
- Proust, Marcel – Within a Budding Grove
- Proust, Marcel – The Guermantes Way
- Proust, Marcel – Cities on the Plain
- Proust, Marcel – The Captive
- Proust, Marcel – The Sweet Cheat Gone
- Proust, Marcel – Time Regained
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques – The Confessions
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques – The Social Contract & Discourses
- Russell, Bertrand – Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
- Russell, Bertrand – Political Ideals
- Russell, Bertrand – The Problems of Philosophy
- Russell, Bertrand – Western Philosophy
- Sartre, Jean-Paul – Existentialism Is a Humanism
- Scott, Sir Walter – Ivanhoe
- Seneca– On Benefits
- Shackleton, Ernest – South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition
- Shakespeare, William – The Complete Works
- Shakespeare, William – A Midsummer’s Night Dream
- Shakespeare, William – Hamlet
- Shakespeare, William – Julius Caesar
- Shakespeare, William – Macbeth
- Shakespeare, William – Othello
- Shakespeare, William – Romeo & Juliet
- Shakespeare, William – The Merchant of Venice
- Shakespeare, William – The Taming of the Shrew
- Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein
- Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle
- Smith, Adam – The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- Smith, Adam – The Wealth of Nations
- Sophocles – Antigone
- Sophocles – Oedipus the King
- Sophocles – Oedipus Rex
- Sophocles – Oedipus Trilogy –
- Spenser, Edmund – The Faerie Queene
- Stein, Gertrude – Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein
- Stein, Gertrude – Tender Buttons
- Stein, Gertrude – Three Lives : stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha and the Gentle Lena
- Stein, Gertrude – The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- Stendhal – The Red and the Black
- French: Kindle + Other Formats
- English: Read Online
- Stevenson, Robert Louis – Olalla
- Stevenson, Robert Louis – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island
- Stoker, Bram – Dracula
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Suetonius – The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
- Sun Tzu – The Art of War
- Swift, Jonathan – A Tale of the Tub
- Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
- Thoreau, Henry David – Walden
- Tocqueville, Alexis de – Democracy in America Vol 1.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de – Democracy in America Vol 2.
- Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy, Leo – The Pathways of Life (aka Wise Thoughts for Every Day)
- Tolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
- Tolstoy, Leo – What Men Live by and Other Tales
- Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich – Fathers and Children
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Twain, Mark – The $30,000 Bequest
- Vatsyayana – The Kama Sutra
- Veblen, Thorstein – The Theory of the Leisure Class
- iPad/iPhone – Kindle + Other Formats – Read Online
- Verne, Jules – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Verne, Jules – Around the World in 80 Days –
- Verne, Jules – A Journey into the Center of the Earth
- Voltaire – Candide
- Virgil – The Aeneid
- Vonnegut, Kurt – 2 B R O 2 B
- Vonnegut, Kurt – The Big Trip Up Yonder
- Wallace, David Foster – “9/11: The View From the Midwest”
- Wallace, David Foster – “All That”
- Wallace, David Foster – “An Interval”
- Wallace, David Foster – “Asset”
- Wallace, David Foster – “Backbone”
- Wallace, David Foster – “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men”
- Wallace, David Foster – “Consider the Lobster”
- Wallace, David Foster – “David Lynch Keeps His Head”
- Wallace, David Foster – “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction”
- Wallace, David Foster – “Everything is Green”
- Wallace, David Foster – “Federer as Religious Experience”
- Wallace, David Foster – “Good People”
- Wallace, David Foster – “Host”
- Wallace, David Foster– “Incarnations of Burned Children”
- Wallace, David Foster – Little Expressionless Animals
- Wallace, David Foster – “Several Birds”
- Wallace, David Foster – “Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of aluxury cruise”
- Wallace, David Foster – “Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes: A Midwestern Boyhood”
- Wallace, David Foster – “The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys And The Shrub”
- Wallace, David Foster – “The String Theory”
- Wallace, David Foster – “Ticket to the Fair”
- Wallace, David Foster – “Wiggle Room”
- Weber, Max– The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Wells, H.G. – The Invisible Man
- Wells, H.G. – The Time Machine
- Wells, H.G. – The War of the Worlds
- Wharton, Edith – The Age of Innocence
- Whitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass
- Wilde, Oscar – Picture of Dorian Gray
- Wilde, Oscar – The Importance of Being Earnest
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Woolf, Virgina – A Room of One’s Own
- Woolf, Virginia – Mrs Dalloway
- Woolf, Virginia – To the Lighthouse
- Woolf, Virginia – The Voyage Out
- Wordsworth, William – Lyrical Ballads, with other poems
- Yeats, William Butler – Collected Poems
- Zola, Émile – Germinal
- Zola, Émile – Therese Raquin
Assorted Texts
- Assortment of Classic Books for Kids – Read Online
- 65 Modern Art Books by the Guggenheim – Read Online
- Baldwin, Frederick – Dear Monsieur Picasso – PDF
- Boon, Marcus – In Praise of Copying – PDF
- Chomsky, Noam and Edward Herman – Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact and Propaganda – Read Online
- Chomsky, Noam – Deterring Democracy – Read Online
- Chomsky, Noam – Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture, Boston: South End Press, 1993. – Read Online
- Chomsky, Noam – Year 501: The Conquest Continues – Read Online
- Chomsky, Noam – Secrets, Lies and Democracy – Read Online
- Brand, Stewart – The Whole Earth Catalog – Read Online
- Doctorow, Cory – I, Robot – Kindle + Other Formats
- Doctorow, Cory – With a Little Help – Kindle + Other Formats
- Kamenetz, Anya – The Edupunks’ Guide to a DIY Credential – Kindle + Other Formats
- Lessig, Lawrence – The Future of Ideas – PDF
- Lethem, Jonathan – The Empty Room – Read Online
- Rucker, Rudy – The Ware Tetralogy – D0wnload
- Scroggy, David – The Blade Runner Sketchbook: The Art of Syd Mead and Ridley Scott – Read Online
- The Beatles – Yellow Submarine – iPad