The books listed here are in the public domain and can be downloaded or read online at Project Gutenberg. There are 57,000 free ebooks on the website in various formats (plain text, pdf, epub, kindle). It was founded by American writer Michael S. Hart on December 1, 1971, and is the oldest digital library.
Here are the top 10 books in no particular order that you can download and read for free.
Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel by Jane Austen written in the English language and published on 28 January 1813 by T. Egerton, Whitehall in the United Kingdom.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a fantasy fiction novel written by Lewis Carroll and published on 26 November 1865 in the United Kingdom. It is a story about a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar creatures.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an English novel by American writer Herman Melville and published in 1851. The book is a narration by sailor Ishmael of the obsessive quest of the whaling ship Pequod's Captain Ahab, for revenge on the white whale (Moby Dick) that bit off Ahab's leg on the ship's last voyage.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective novel featuring Sherlock Holmes and written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is a collection of twelve short stories and was published in the United Kingdom in the year 1892.
Dracula is a fictional horror novel written by Irish author Bram Stoker and was published in the United Kingdom in 1897. The novel tells how Dracula moved from Transylvania to England so he could spread the undead curse and also find new blood. It also narrates the battle between Dracula and a group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a novel written by Mark Twain in the year 1876 and is about a boy from St. Petersburg growing up along the Mississippi River.
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel by Charles Dickens and published in 1859. The plot is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a gothic and horror fictional novel written by English author Mary Shelley and published in the year 1818. The story is about Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a creature in a scientific experiment.
War and Peace is a historical Russian novel written by Leo Tolstoy. The novel is a history of the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society.
Emma a novel by Jane Austen was published in 1815, is about a youthful hubris and the dangers of misinterpreted romance. The story takes place in the village of Highbury and its surrounding estates and includes the relationships among the peoples in those places.
The details of the books have been referenced from Wikipedia.
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