Free Classic Fiction: Free EPUB Editions

This page is the index to every classic novel, story collection, play and epic on editions.ink: all 172 titles, grouped by shelf, each linked to a page with the full text as a free EPUB, AZW3 and KEPUB download.

Start with: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë or Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Each page carries chapter summaries, a word count, reading time and the free EPUB, AZW3 and KEPUB downloads.

The catalog runs from the sixteenth century to 1930, roughly where United States copyright begins to bite. It is a reading catalog rather than a completeness contest: every entry has been checked against its printed source, given a word count and a chapter guide, and tested for broken download links.

172 free editions · ~18,857,000 words in total · 750 BC–1929 · EPUB, AZW3 and KEPUB

• Victorian Novels (30)
• Modern Classics (18)
• Detective & Mystery (22)
• Science Fiction (8)
• Gothic & Horror (22)
• Adventure & Sea (24)
• Children's Classics (14)
• Philosophy (27)
• Poetry & Epics (8)
• Drama (4)

Victorian Novels (30)

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Modern Classics (18)

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Detective & Mystery (22)

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Science Fiction (8)

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Gothic & Horror (22)

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Adventure & Sea (24)

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Children’s Classics (14)

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Philosophy (27)

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Poetry & Epics (8)

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Drama (4)

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Start here if you are new

If you have not read a nineteenth-century novel since school, begin with a short one: The Yellow Wallpaper takes under an hour, The Gift of the Magi under twenty minutes, and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge less than that. The short classic novels page lists every title under 60,000 words, and the word count table orders the whole catalog by length.

Frequently asked questions

Are all of these books free to download?

Yes. Every title is in the public domain in the United States, and the EPUB, AZW3 and KEPUB files are hosted on editions.ink itself: no account, no email, no paywall.

Why do some famous classics seem to be missing?

Anything first published after 1930 is still under copyright in the United States or is not yet reliably public domain, so it is not here. The catalog is also curated: a title is added only when a clean, proofread text exists.

How were the shelves chosen?

By the way people actually browse: genre first (detective, science fiction, gothic, adventure, children’s, philosophy, poetry), then the catch-alls: nineteenth-century novels and the short modern novel. Books appear on one shelf so the counts add up to the total.

Do the pages include summaries and spoilers?

Each book page opens with a spoiler-light overview, then a chapter guide that does reveal plot. The guides are collapsed in an accordion, so you can read the history and the first-page preview without seeing the ending.

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Every title on the site

All 172 free editions, newest first.

Title	Author	Year	Words
Bleak House	Charles Dickens	1853	351,226
The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas	1844	226,061
The House of the Seven Gables	Nathaniel Hawthorne	1851	104,846
A Princess of Mars	Edgar Rice Burroughs	1912	67,255
Common Sense	Thomas Paine	1776	22,127
The Nicomachean Ethics	Aristotle	-340	116,452
Black Beauty	Anna Sewell	1877	63,007
The Trial	Franz Kafka	1925	86,874
The Thirty-Nine Steps	John Buchan	1915	44,023
Candide	Voltaire	1759	38,738
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court	Mark Twain	1889	121,033
The Idiot	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1869	244,604
Hamlet	William Shakespeare	1600	35,005
The Problems of Philosophy	Bertrand Russell	1912	45,900
Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens	1838	161,010
Myths and Legends of China	E. T. C. Werner	1922	135,969
The Secret Adversary	Agatha Christie	1922	78,347
The Castle of Otranto	Horace Walpole	1764	39,627
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth	Jules Verne	1864	88,854
The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	1908	61,472
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome	E. M. Berens	1880	109,063
The Mysterious Affair at Styles	Agatha Christie	1920	59,580
Northanger Abbey	Jane Austen	1817	80,264
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea	Jules Verne	1870	104,016
Winnie-the-Pooh	A. A. Milne	1926	21,382
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano	Olaudah Equiano	1789	85,638
Through the Looking-Glass	Lewis Carroll	1871	29,797
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker	Tobias Smollett	1771	148,888
The Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	1320	111,673
Dubliners	James Joyce	1914	70,592
The Adventures of Roderick Random	Tobias Smollett	1748	193,646
The Enchiridion	Epictetus	125	14,119
The Confessions of St. Augustine	Augustine of Hippo	400	111,892
Ulysses	James Joyce	1922	261,433
White Nights	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1848	118,526
Kidnapped	Robert Louis Stevenson	1886	85,398
Carmilla	Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu	1872	28,083
The Art of War	Sun Tzu	-500	54,841
Pygmalion	George Bernard Shaw	1913	36,598
Leviathan	Thomas Hobbes	1651	213,209
The Voyage of the Beagle	Charles Darwin	1839	185,000
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling	Henry Fielding	1749	338,946
Grimms’ Fairy Tales	Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm	1812	100,000
Beowulf	Anonymous	1000	24,921
The Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith	1776	378,427
The Republic	Plato	-375	212,446
The King in Yellow	Robert W. Chambers	1895	70,485
Cranford	Elizabeth Gaskell	1853	70,574
Walden	Henry David Thoreau	1854	106,298
Notes from the Underground	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1864	44,161
The Island of Doctor Moreau	H. G. Wells	1896	46,593
The Prophet	Kahlil Gibran	1923	12,447
Siddhartha	Hermann Hesse	1922	42,192
Sister Carrie	Theodore Dreiser	1900	156,358
The Jungle	Upton Sinclair	1906	149,277
The House of Mirth	Edith Wharton	1905	129,036
White Fang	Jack London	1906	75,212
Ethan Frome	Edith Wharton	1911	34,619
The Awakening	Kate Chopin	1899	67,080
The Happy Prince and Other Tales	Oscar Wilde	1888	16,085
Bartleby, the Scrivener	Herman Melville	1853	14,522
The Gift of the Magi	O. Henry	1905	2,130
The Monkey’s Paw	W. W. Jacobs	1902	4,033
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	Ambrose Bierce	1890	3,765
The Fall of the House of Usher	Edgar Allan Poe	1839	6,909
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	Washington Irving	1820	12,267
A Modest Proposal	Jonathan Swift	1729	3,467
The Yellow Wallpaper	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	1892	6,052
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	L. Frank Baum	1900	39,409
Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka	1915	21,982
The Innocence of Father Brown	G. K. Chesterton	1911	78,220
The Valley of Fear	Arthur Conan Doyle	1915	57,665
The Wisdom of Father Brown	G. K. Chesterton	1914	71,782
The Mystery of the Yellow Room	Gaston Leroux	1907	73,826
The Phantom of the Opera	Gaston Leroux	1910	84,181
The Mystery of the Blue Train	Agatha Christie	1928	70,132
The Seven Dials Mystery	Agatha Christie	1929	65,307
The Big Four	Agatha Christie	1927	55,601
The Man in the Brown Suit	Agatha Christie	1924	75,510
The Murder on the Links	Agatha Christie	1923	64,793
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd	Agatha Christie	1926	70,248
The Iliad	Homer	-750	155,801
Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	1605	423,624
The Enchanted April	Elizabeth von Arnim	1922	78,345
The House of the Arrow	A. E. W. Mason	1924	95,605
The Turn of the Screw	Henry James	1898	41,876
The Monk	M. G. Lewis	1796	136,866
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle	1894	94,259
The Return of Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle	1905	112,155
Twenty Years After	Alexandre Dumas	1845	242,155
Spoon River Anthology	Edgar Lee Masters	1916	39,000
The Importance of Being Earnest	Oscar Wilde	1895	21,349
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	Frederick Douglass	1845	41,029
Two Treatises of Government	John Locke	1689	104,000
The Souls of Black Folk	W. E. B. Du Bois	1903	68,747
On the Origin of Species	Charles Darwin	1859	199,893
On Liberty	John Stuart Mill	1859	52,099
Thus Spake Zarathustra	Friedrich Nietzsche	1883	89,892
Beyond Good and Evil	Friedrich Nietzsche	1886	62,067
The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1880	348,612
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.	Washington Irving	1819	122,086
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin Franklin	1791	64,699
Household Tales	Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm	1812	283,190
Peter and Wendy	J. M. Barrie	1911	46,357
A Doll’s House	Henrik Ibsen	1879	25,857
Anne of Green Gables	L. M. Montgomery	1908	102,267
War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	1869	561,860
Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	180	75,000
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar	Maurice Leblanc	1907	53,974
The Man Who Was Thursday	G. K. Chesterton	1908	57,901
The Blue Castle	L. M. Montgomery	1926	68,744
The Mysteries of Udolpho	Ann Radcliffe	1794	290,136
The Secret of Chimneys	Agatha Christie	1925	72,945
Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare	1597	25,000
A Room with a View	E. M. Forster	1908	65,493
Les Misérables	Victor Hugo	1862	550,797
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame	Victor Hugo	1831	183,523
Tess of the d’Urbervilles	Thomas Hardy	1891	148,850
Germinal	Émile Zola	1885	177,416
Bel-Ami	Guy de Maupassant	1885	107,605
Father Goriot	Honoré de Balzac	1835	88,000
Fathers and Children	Ivan Turgenev	1862	70,888
Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	1878	349,406
Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky	1866	204,176
The Odyssey	Homer	-700	125,000
The Prince	Niccolo Machiavelli	1532	35,000
The Invisible Man	H. G. Wells	1897	48,000
The War of the Worlds	H. G. Wells	1898	60,000
Emma	Jane Austen	1815	160,000
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	1850	358,000
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle	1892	105,000
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	1884	109,000
Around the World in Eighty Days	Jules Verne	1873	65,000
The Scarlet Pimpernel	Baroness Orczy	1905	88,000
The Mayor of Casterbridge	Thomas Hardy	1886	138,000
The Jungle Book	Rudyard Kipling	1894	52,000
The Sign of the Four	Arthur Conan Doyle	1890	44,000
The Secret Garden	Frances Hodgson Burnett	1910	80,500
Persuasion	Jane Austen	1817	83,000
The Red Badge of Courage	Stephen Crane	1895	48,000
Silas Marner	George Eliot	1861	72,000
The Age of Innocence	Edith Wharton	1920	102,000
Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	1857	118,000
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	1843	28,500
Sense and Sensibility	Jane Austen	1811	119,000
The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	1844	464,000
Little Women	Louisa May Alcott	1868	188,000
Gulliver’s Travels	Jonathan Swift	1727	106,000
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	1899	38,000
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	1876	70,000
The Time Machine	H. G. Wells	1895	32,000
The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	1850	64,000
The Call of the Wild	Jack London	1903	32,000
Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson	1883	67,000
Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	1719	121,000
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Arthur Conan Doyle	1902	59,000
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	1859	135,000
Middlemarch	George Eliot	1871	318,048
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	1861	183,000
The Moonstone	Wilkie Collins	1868	196,000
The Woman in White	Wilkie Collins	1860	245,000
Moby-Dick	Herman Melville	1851	206,000
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	1865	27,000
A Study in Scarlet	Arthur Conan Doyle	1887	43,367
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	1847	185,000
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	1890	78,000
Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	1847	115,000
Dracula	Bram Stoker	1897	160,000
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	1886	25,500
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	1818	75,000
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1925	47,094
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	1813	122,000

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