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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.
All literary fiction books
62 of 359 books match this length.
A Country Doctor
A Gentle Spirit
A Haunted House
A Hunger Artist
A Little Hero
A Lost Lady
A Modern Lover
A Political Romance
A Simple Soul
Amy Foster
An honest thief
Bartleby, The Scrivener
A hidden gem from this shelf
Painted Veils
Studios, salons, and choices where art and life collide.
Billy Budd, Sailor
Boyhood
Brother Jacob
Bunner Sisters
Death in Venice
Ethan Frome
Family Happiness
First Love
Heart of Darkness
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
In Our Time
Lady Susan
Love and Freindship
Master and Man
May Day
Monday or Tuesday
Mumu
My Mortal Enemy
Nightmare Abbey
Odour of Chrysanthemums
Oroonoko
Sanctuary
Sanditon
Spirits Rebellious
Sun
The Abysmal Brute
The Bet
The Broken Wings
The crocodile
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Devil
The Fox
The Heir Of Mondolfo
The Ice Palace
The Invisible Girl
The Judgment
The Landlady
The Metamorphosis
The Overman
The Rocking-Horse Winner
The Secret Sharer
The Torrents of Spring
The Touchstone
The Virgin and the Gipsy
Typhoon
Victoria
Ward No. 6
Winter Dreams
Youth
Zadig