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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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149 of 359 books match this length.
A Farewell to Arms
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Adam Bede
An American Tragedy
Anna Karenina
Arrowsmith
Babbitt
Barchester Towers
Bleak House
Buddenbrooks
Can you forgive her?
Clarissa
A hidden gem from this shelf
Painted Veils
Studios, salons, and choices where art and life collide.
Coningsby
Cousin Betty
Crime and Punishment
Dangerous Connections
Daniel Deronda
David Copperfield
Dead Souls
Doctor Thorne
Dombey and Son
Don Quixote
Emma
Esther Waters
Exemplary Novels
Falkner
Far From the Madding Crowd
Felix Holt, the Radical
Galatea
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Germinal
Great Expectations
Growth of the Soil
He knew He was right
Howards End
Jane Eyre
Jude the Obscure
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Les Misérables
Little Dorrit
Little Women
Lord Jim
Lost Illusions
Madame Bovary
Main Street
Mansfield Park
Martin Eden
Mary Barton
Middlemarch
Moby Dick
Mother
Nana
New Grub Street
Nicholas Nickleby
Night and Day
North and South
Nostromo
Of Human Bondage
Oliver Twist
One of Ours
Our Mutual Friend
Phineas Finn
Phineas Redux
Pierre; or, The ambiguities
Point Counter Point
Pride and Prejudice
Redburn: His First Voyage
Resurrection
Romola
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress
Ruth
Sense and Sensibility
Shirley
Sister Carrie
Some Do Not...
Sons and Lovers
Swann's Way
Sybil, or the Two Nations
Sylvia's Lovers
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Adolescent
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
The Adventures of Roderick Random
The Ambassadors
The beautiful and damned
The Brothers Karamazov
The Charterhouse of Parma
The Custom of the Country
The Decameron
The Devils
The Duke's Children
The Eustace Diamonds
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
The Forsyte Saga
The Fortune of the Rougons
The Gadfly
The Gilded Age
The golden bowl
The Guermantes Way
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The House of Mirth
The House of the Dead
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Idiot
The Insulted and Humiliated
The Iron Woman
The Jungle
The Lark
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
The Magic Mountain
The Marble Faun
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mill on the Floss
The Minister's Wooing
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Wives' Tale
The Pickwick Papers
The Plumed Serpent
The Portrait of a Lady
The Prime Minister
The Quest of the Silver Fleece
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
The Rainbow
The Red and the Black
The Reign of Greed
The Return of the Native
The Social Cancer
The Song of the Lark
The Story of Gösta Berling
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Voyage Out
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
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas
Ulysses
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Vanity Fair
Victory: An Island Tale
Villette
Virgin Soil
War and Peace
Within a Budding Grove
Wives and Daughters
Women in Love
Wuthering Heights