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Literary fiction — 359 PDFs & ePubs
359 classic literary fiction books · free in PDF & EPUB
Literary fiction is where style, character, and theme outrank plot — the novels the other novels answer to. Tolstoy's Russia, Kafka's offices, Flaubert's provinces: the whole shelf is public domain, free in PDF and EPUB, and readable online without an account.
Testing the water? The Metamorphosis and The Death of Ivan Ilych each take an evening and leave a permanent mark. Ready for a monument, Crime and Punishment and Anna Karenina are the shelf's most downloaded novels for a reason — and Don Quixote has been funny for four hundred years.
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The Metamorphosis
One ordinary morning, one impossible change, and the whole modern condition in seventy pages.
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A Child of the Jago
A Country Doctor
A Farewell to Arms
A Gentle Spirit
A Haunted House
A Hero of Our Time
A High Wind in Jamaica
A Hunger Artist
A Little Hero
A Lost Lady
A Man from the North
A Modern Lover
A hidden gem from this shelf
The Marble Faun
Artists in Rome face innocence, guilt, and the stories beauty tempts us to tell.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
A Passage to India
A Political Romance
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Room with a View
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
A set of six
A Simple Soul
Adam Bede
Agnes Grey
Alice Adams
Amy Foster
An American Tragedy
An honest thief
An Outcast of the Islands
Anna Karenina
Anna of the Five Towns
Antic Hay
Arrowsmith
As I Lay Dying
Babbitt
Barchester Towers
Bartleby, The Scrivener
Billy Budd, Sailor
Bleak House
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
Born Again
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-Comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, Part II
Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life
Boyhood
Brother Jacob
Buddenbrooks
Bunner Sisters
Burning Daylight
Can you forgive her?
Candide
Childhood
Children of the Bush
Clarissa
Coningsby
Cousin Betty
Cranford
Crime and Punishment
Crome Yellow
Cup of Gold
Dangerous Connections
Daniel Deronda
David Copperfield
Dead Souls
Death comes for the archbishop
Death in Venice
Demian
Doctor Thorne
Dombey and Son
Don Quixote
Dubliners
Emma
Esther Waters
Ethan Frome
Eugene Onegin
Eugenie Grandet
Exemplary Novels
Falkner
Family Happiness
Fanny Hill
Far From the Madding Crowd
Father Goriot
Fathers and sons
Felix Holt, the Radical
First Love
Galatea
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Germinal
Great Expectations
Growth of the Soil
Hadji Murad
Hard Times
He knew He was right
Headlong Hall
Heart of Darkness
His Family
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Howards End
Hunger
In Our Time
Jacob's Room
Jane Eyre
Jude the Obscure
Kim
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Susan
Les Misérables
Little Dorrit
Little Women
Look Back on Happiness
Lord Jim
Lost Illusions
Love Among the Chickens
Love and Freindship
Madame Bovary
Main Street
Manon Lescaut
Mansfield Park
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
Martin Eden
Mary Barton
Master and Man
Mathilda
May Day
Men Without Women
Middlemarch
Moby Dick
Moll Flanders
Monday or Tuesday
Mortal Coils
Mosquitoes
Mother
Mothwise
Mrs. Dalloway
Mumu
My Antonia
My Mortal Enemy
Nana
National Avenue
New Grub Street
Nicholas Nickleby
Niels Lyhne
Night and Day
Nightmare Abbey
No More Parades
North and South
Northanger Abbey
Nostromo
Notes from Underground
O Pioneers!
Oblomov
Odour of Chrysanthemums
Of Human Bondage
Oliver Twist
On the Eve
One of Ours
Orlando: A Biography
Oroonoko
Our Mutual Friend
Painted Veils
Pan
Persuasion
Phineas Finn
Phineas Redux
Piccadilly Jim
Pierre et Jean
Pierre; or, The ambiguities
Point Counter Point
Poor Folk
Pride and Prejudice
Prince Otto
Redburn: His First Voyage
Resurrection
Right Ho, Jeeves
Romola
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
Royal Highness
Rudin
Ruth
Sanctuary
Sanditon
Sense and Sensibility
Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education II
Shallow Soil
Shirley
Show Boat
Siddhartha
Silas Marner
Sister Carrie
Smoke
So Big
Soldiers' Pay
Some Do Not...
Sons and Lovers
Spirits Rebellious
Steppenwolf
Summer
Sun
Swann's Way
Sybil, or the Two Nations
Sylvia's Lovers
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Able McLaughlins
The Abysmal Brute
The Adolescent
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
The Adventures of Roderick Random
The Age of Innocence
The Ambassadors
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
The beautiful and damned
The Bet
The Blithedale Romance
The Blue Castle
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Broken Wings
The Brothers Karamazov
The Castle
The Charterhouse of Parma
The confidence-man:his masquerade
The Cossacks
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
The crocodile
The Custom of the Country
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Decameron
The Devil
The Devils
The Diary of a Nobody
The Double
The Duel
The Duke's Children
The Enchanted April
The Eternal Husband
The Eustace Diamonds
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
The Forsyte Saga
The Fortune of the Rougons
The Fox
The Gadfly
The Gambler
The Gilded Age
The Glimpses of the Moon
The golden bowl
The Good Soldier
The Great Gatsby
The Guermantes Way
The Heir Of Mondolfo
The History of Mr Polly
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The House of Mirth
The House of the Dead
The House of the Seven Gables
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Ice Palace
The Idiot
The Inimitable Jeeves
The Insulted and Humiliated
The Invisible Girl
The Iron Woman
The Judgment
The Jungle
The Kreutzer Sonata
The Landlady
The Lark
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
The Little Lady of the Big House
The Little Nugget
The Little White Bird
The Longest Journey
The Luck of Barry Lyndon
The Magic Mountain
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Mantle, and Other Stories
The Marble Faun
The Marrow of Tradition
The Master of Ballantrae
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Metamorphosis
The Mill on the Floss
The Minister's Wooing
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Wives' Tale
The Overman
The Pickwick Papers
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Plumed Serpent
The Portrait of a Lady
The Prime Minister
The Princess of Cleves
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Professor
The professor's house
The Quest of the Silver Fleece
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
The Rainbow
The Red and the Black
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Room
The Reign of Greed
The Return of the Native
The Rocking-Horse Winner
The Scarlet Letter
The Secret Agent
The Secret Sharer
The Shadow Line: A Confession
The Social Cancer
The Song of the Lark
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sound and the Fury
The Story of Gösta Berling
The Sun Also Rises
The Tale of Genji
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Torrents of Spring
The Touchstone
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
The Trial
The Turmoil
The Virgin and the Gipsy
The Voyage Out
The Warden
The Watsons
The Way of All Flesh
The Way We Live Now
The Well of Loneliness
The Wings of the Dove
The Woman in White
The woodlanders
This Side of Paradise
To the Lighthouse
Torrent of Spring
Twilight Sleep
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas
Typhoon
Ulysses
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle's Dream
Under the Greenwood Tree
Vanity Fair
Victoria
Victory: An Island Tale
Villette
Virgin Soil
Wanderers
War and Peace
Ward No. 6
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Winesburg, Ohio
Winter Dreams
Within a Budding Grove
Wives and Daughters
Women in Love
Wuthering Heights
Youth
Youth
Zadig
Zuleika Dobson