Welcome to Literature Web!

A most cordial welcome to Literature Web. This is your place on the Internet to read classic books free online - classical literature - absoutely to your heart's content - and enjoy. We bring together a Web of great Literature to readers and book-lovers through the Internet.

In a nutshell:

Literature Web for whom?

Authors, Titles and Genre

All of it is the classical immortal authors. So far, we cover literary works by 350+ (356 at this moment) authors, 6500+ (nearing 7000) titles narrating all-time best fiction including greatest novels (2000+), short stories, essays, poems and also non-fiction. A question that we keep facing is that what are the best books to read online. Now that the site is growing older and has been gaining popularity all through its babyhood, we see maximum readership for the following books. If you are asking "which book to read next" then here is the booklist for you.

How do we survive?

So far, we survive on advertising. Only. We still do not seek money donations unlike many others - who knows, we might have to do that later but we are constantly working hard enough to avoid that. Happily, Literature Web has grown a great extent, and a big hand and very warm word of thanks to all our readers who love books and have been recommending Literature Web to their friends, colleagues and associates. We need your recommendation, and we hope our sincere efforts will give you the heart to spread the word.

A sincere request to students and teachers: please pass on the message to your next batches if you are happy with our work, attempts and attitude.

Goes without saying, my current target is to spread awareness among teachers, students, researchers and all other classes of readers that such a website exists and that it is a great treasure that would save them all the money of buying books, all the effort and time to buy books, and at the same time keep the earth greener (create a winning situation for every single person involved without involving any money at all). In the longer run, I may love to die as the owner of Literature Web and live forever, even beyond my death, as the founder of Literature Web.

How can you contribute? No, not money - we do not accept monetary donations and hopes never to. Please contribute otherwise. How?

You are welcome to provide a list of books that you would love to see on Literature Web. Please mail to editor@literatureweb.net, and if everything permits, we shall make every attempt to bring a smile to your face.

If you have the HTML source of some legitimate classic work and wish to share it with all of us, please let us know and we shall upload it as soon as we can.

Please let us know of each and every error you found in our pages - we are humans and our efforts are as prone to mistake as any human. You, our readers, are the core assets of our huge literature library. You are our biggest reason to try to be perfect, and only you can increase our perfection.

Please let your friends and colleagues know of our attempts if you like our work as well as our attitude. Sharing on the social networks/media is a great idea, please share if you can. This would be your social contibution to our website.

If you disliked our website for some reason, again, please let us know. We recognize that dislike can help show the pillar of liking and failure can help build the pillar of success.

Thanks for all your social and intellectual (and strictly non-economic) contributions. Literature Web is of everyone, by everyone and for everyone ("of the people, by the people, for the people"). Every bit of help and feedback from you is a drop of gold for us.

Author Index

Andy Adams
Henry Adams
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Aesop
Louisa May Alcott
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Horatio Alger
Dante Alighieri
Grant Allen
Joseph A. Altsheler
Hans Christian Andersen
Sherwood Anderson
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Leonid N. Andreyev
Anonymous
F. Anstey
Victor Appleton
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Elizabeth von Arnim
T.S. Arthur
Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Saint Augustine
Jane Austen
Professor Aytoun
Irving Bacheller
Arthur Scott Bailey
Honore de Balzac
John Kendrick Bangs
John Banim
Maynard Barbour
Ralph Henry Barbour
Jane Barlow
Amelia E. Barr
Robert Barr
James M. Barrie
L. Frank Baum
Rex Ellingwood Beach
Mary Beaumont
L. Adams Beck
Arnold Bennett
Sir Walter Besant
Ambrose Bierce
William Henry Bishop
Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson
William Black
R.D. Blackmore
Algernon Blackwood
William Blake
B.M. Bower
Emily Bronte
Anne Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
John Buchan
Thomas Bulfinch
Henry Cuyler Bunner
Thornton W. Burgess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Robert Burns
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Samuel Butler
Lord George Gordon Byron
Julius Caesar
William Carleton
Thomas Carlyle
Lewis Carroll
Egerton Castle
Willa Cather
Miguel de Cervantes
Lizzie W. Champney
Geoffrey Chaucer
Anton Chekhov
Charles W. Chesnutt
George Randolph Chester
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Katherine Chopin
Agatha Christie
H. A. Cody
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wilkie Collins
Carlo Collodi
William Congreve
Richard Connell
Ralph Connor
Joseph Conrad
Grace MacGowan Cooke
James Fenimore Cooper
Marie Correlli
Hubert Crackanthorpe
Stephen Crane
F. Marion Crawford
S. R. Crockett
George William Curtis
Ella D'Arcy
Edgar B. P. Darlington
Charles Darwin
Rebecca Harding Davis
Richard Harding Davis
Daniel Defoe
Ethel M. Dell
Rene Descartes
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
John Donne
Fyodor Dostoevsky
R. K. Douglas
Frederick Douglass
Arthur Conan Doyle
John Dryden
Alexandre Dumas
Alice Dunbar
Henry Van Dyke
Georg Ebers
Maria Edgeworth
Harry Stillwell Edwards
George Egerton
George Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lina Redwood Fairfax
Jeffrey Farnol
Edna Ferber
Martha Finley
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gustave Flaubert
J.S. Fletcher
Eliza Lee Follen
Mary Hallock Foote
E.M. Forster
Anatole France
Harold Frederic
R. Austin Freeman
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Hildegard G. Frey
Robert Frost
Henry B. Fuller
Emile Gaboriau
John Galsworthy
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin
Elizabeth Gaskell
Basile Giambattista
William Schwenk Gilbert
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
George Gissing
Susan Glaspell
Elinor Glyn
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Oliver Goldsmith
Maxim Gorky
Balthasar Gracian
Kenneth Grahame
Anna Katharine Green
Eliot Gregory
Zane Grey
Arthur Griffiths
Edgar A. Guest
H. Rider Haggard
Edward Everett Hale
Thomas Hardy
Beatrice Harraden
Bret Harte
Wells Hastings
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Julian Hawthorne
A.A. Hayes
O Henry
G. A. Henty
Hermann Hesse
Thomas Hobbes
Marietta Holley
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Homer
Anthony Hope
Laura Lee Hope
E. W. Hornung
William D. Howells
Elbert Hubbard
W. H. Hudson
Thomas Hughes
Victor Hugo
Fergus Hume
Aldous Huxley
Henrik Ibsen
Washington Irving
W. W. Jacobs
Henry James
Montague Rhodes James
Jerome K. Jerome
George H. Jessop
Sarah Orne Jewett
Samuel Johnson
Annie Fellows Johnston
Richard Malcolm Johnston
James Joyce
John Fox Jr.
John Fox Jr.
Franz Kafka
John Keats
William Kemp
Omar Khayyam
Basil King
Charles Kingsley
Rudyard Kipling
Caroline M.S. Kirkland
Vladimir G. Korolenko
Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin
Peter B. Kyne
Charles Lamb
William James Lampton
J. Landers
Andrew Lang
Ring Lardner
D.H. Lawrence
Henry Lawson
Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
Stephen Leacock
Gaston Leroux
Eliza Leslie
Jonas Lie
Abraham Lincoln
Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Hugh Lofting
Jack London
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
H. P. Lovecraft
Samuel Lover
Martin Luther
George MacDonald
Harold MacGrath
Niccolo Machiavelli
Ian Maclaren
Christopher Marlowe
Karl Marx
William Somerset Maugham
Guy de Maupassant
George du Maurier
John McElroy
Herman Melville
Edna St. Vincent Millay
John Milton
Miss Mitford
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Thomas More
Christopher Morley
George Pope Morris
Arthur Morrison
H. H. Munro
Edith Nesbit
Frank Norris
Kathleen Norris
G. B. O'Halloran
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Baroness Emmuska Orczy
George Orwell
Ouida
Frank L. Packard
Thomas Nelson Page
Gilbert Parker
Randall Parrish
Frank Gee Patchin
Andrew Barton Paterson
Thomas Love Peacock
Elia W. Peattie
Margaret Pedler
Lucy Fitch Perkins
David Graham Phillips
Plato
Edgar Allan Poe
Eleanor H. Porter
Melville Davisson Post
I.N. Potapenko
Beatrix Potter
Alexander Pushkin
Howard Pyle
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Ann Radcliffe
William MacLeod Raine
G. Harvey Ralphson
Charles Reade
Myrtle Reed
Arthur J. Rees
Arthur B. Reeve
Alice Hegan Rice
Laura E. Richards
Grace S. Richmond
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Morley Roberts
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edward Payson Roe
Sax Rohmer
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Bertrand Russell
W. Clark Russell
Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov
Sir Walter Scott
William Charles Scully
S.T. Semyonov
Robert Service
Anna Sewell
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Margaret Sidney
Upton Sinclair
Adam Smith
Fyodor Sologub
Sophocles
Johanna Spyri
Henry De Vere Stacpoole
Robert Louis Stevenson
Frank Stockton
Bram Stoker
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Edward Stratemeyer
Gene Stratton-Porter
Jonathan Swift
J. M. Synge
Netta Syrett
Rabindranath Tagore
Booth Tarkington
Bayard Taylor
Lord Alfred Tennyson
William Makepeace Thackeray
Henry David Thoreau
Leo Tolstoy
Anthony Trollope
Ivan S. Turgenev
Mark Twain
Sun Tzu
Louis Joseph Vance
Jules Verne
Virgil
Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire
Edgar Wallace
Horace Walpole
Mrs. Humphry Ward
Booker T. Washington
Albert Webster
H.G. Wells
Stanley J Weyman
Edith Wharton
Stewart Edward White
Walt Whitman
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Oscar Wilde
Valentine Williams
John Strange Winter
P. G. Wodehouse
Virginia Woolf
William Wordsworth
Harold Bell Wright
Xenophon
William Butler Yeats
Charlotte M. Yonge
Israel Zangwill
Emile Zola