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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.
Masters of literary fiction
The authors who built the genre — all their books free in the library.
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148 of 359 books match this length.
A Child of the Jago
A Hero of Our Time
A High Wind in Jamaica
A Man from the North
A Passage to India
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
Agnes Grey
Alice Adams
An Outcast of the Islands
A hidden gem from this shelf
Painted Veils
Studios, salons, and choices where art and life collide.
Anna of the Five Towns
Antic Hay
As I Lay Dying
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
Burning Daylight
Candide
Childhood
Children of the Bush
Cranford
Crome Yellow
Cup of Gold
Death comes for the archbishop
Demian
Dubliners
Eugene Onegin
Eugenie Grandet
Fanny Hill
Father Goriot
Fathers and sons
Hadji Murad
Hard Times
Headlong Hall
His Family
Hunger
Jacob's Room
Kim
Look Back on Happiness
Love Among the Chickens
Manon Lescaut
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
Mathilda
Men Without Women
Moll Flanders
Mortal Coils
Mosquitoes
Mothwise
Mrs. Dalloway
My Antonia
National Avenue
Niels Lyhne
No More Parades
Northanger Abbey
Notes from Underground
O Pioneers!
Oblomov
On the Eve
Orlando: A Biography
Painted Veils
Pan
Persuasion
Piccadilly Jim
Pierre et Jean
Poor Folk
Prince Otto
Right Ho, Jeeves
Royal Highness
Rudin
Sentimental Education
Sentimental Education II
Shallow Soil
Show Boat
Siddhartha
Silas Marner
Smoke
So Big
Soldiers' Pay
Steppenwolf
Summer
The Able McLaughlins
The Age of Innocence
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
The Blithedale Romance
The Blue Castle
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Castle
The confidence-man:his masquerade
The Cossacks
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
The Diary of a Nobody
The Double
The Duel
The Enchanted April
The Eternal Husband
The Gambler
The Glimpses of the Moon
The Good Soldier
The Great Gatsby
The History of Mr Polly
The House of the Seven Gables
The Inimitable Jeeves
The Kreutzer Sonata
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 Magnificent Ambersons
The Mantle, and Other Stories
The Marrow of Tradition
The Master of Ballantrae
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Princess of Cleves
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Professor
The professor's house
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Room
The Scarlet Letter
The Secret Agent
The Shadow Line: A Confession
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Sound and the Fury
The Sun Also Rises
The Tale of Genji
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
The Trial
The Turmoil
The Warden
The Watsons
This Side of Paradise
To the Lighthouse
Torrent of Spring
Twilight Sleep
Uncle's Dream
Under the Greenwood Tree
Wanderers
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Winesburg, Ohio
Youth
Zuleika Dobson