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93 Works
The City of God, Volume I
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
146,974 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 61 (Academic)Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
143,136 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 53 (Graduate)Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
Melville, Herman
120,926 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 46 (College)Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
105,100 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
79,364 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 43 (College)Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William
78,483 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 36 (High School)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
69,528 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 37 (High School)The origin and development of the moral ideas
Westermarck, Edward
67,785 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 61 (Academic)A Room with a View
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
66,554 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 38 (High School)The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
64,481 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 39 (High School)The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William
62,194 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 56 (Graduate)The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre & Maquet, Auguste
61,598 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 35 (High School)The King in Yellow
Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
60,397 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 47 (College)Middlemarch
Eliot, George
57,638 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
57,325 Gutenberg downloadsen2021Difficulty 43 (College)Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
Brontë, Charlotte
52,955 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Blue Castle: a novel
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
52,497 Gutenberg downloadsen2022Difficulty 46 (College)Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
United States. Warren Commission
50,078 Gutenberg downloadsen2018Difficulty 71 (Expert)Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Alcott, Louisa May
49,414 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 41 (College)My Life — Volume 1
Wagner, Richard
47,648 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 58 (Graduate)The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
Wilde, Oscar
47,345 Gutenberg downloadsen1997Difficulty 35 (High School)Dracula
Stoker, Bram
46,892 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 44 (College)Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark
45,697 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 36 (High School)Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily
45,290 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 47 (College)The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
45,055 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 37 (High School)Twenty years after
Dumas, Alexandre & Maquet, Auguste
44,813 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Enchanted April
Von Arnim, Elizabeth
44,126 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 44 (College)The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan
43,408 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 38 (High School)A Doll's House : a play
Ibsen, Henrik
41,941 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 30 (Middle School)The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete
Smollett, T. (Tobias)
41,046 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 62 (Academic)A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles
40,758 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 47 (College)The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Smollett, T. (Tobias)
40,423 Gutenberg downloadsen2000Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Cranford
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
40,412 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 50 (College)History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Fielding, Henry
39,771 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Adventures of Roderick Random
Smollett, T. (Tobias)
39,077 Gutenberg downloadsen2003Difficulty 79 (Expert)The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
39,032 Gutenberg downloadsen2009Difficulty 48 (College)A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick
Swift, Jonathan
33,482 Gutenberg downloadsen1997Difficulty 71 (Expert)The Confessions of St. Augustine
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
33,461 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 42 (College)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
Twain, Mark
32,152 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 41 (College)Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
31,428 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 50 (College)Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
30,418 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles
29,740 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 39 (High School)Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
Unknown
28,485 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 49 (College)Grimms' Fairy Tales
Grimm, Jacob & Grimm, Wilhelm
28,393 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 35 (High School)The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
28,370 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 60 (Graduate)Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
Thoreau, Henry David
28,067 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Prince
Machiavelli, Niccolò
27,723 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 63 (Academic)Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Louis
27,670 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 37 (High School)Leviathan
Hobbes, Thomas
27,496 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Metamorphosis
Kafka, Franz
27,136 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 42 (College)The Yellow Wallpaper
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
26,813 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 33 (High School)Life on the Mississippi
Twain, Mark
26,361 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 48 (College)Ulysses
Joyce, James
25,657 Gutenberg downloadsen2003Difficulty 33 (High School)Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
25,112 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 48 (College)The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle, Arthur Conan
24,983 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 42 (College)A Study in Scarlet
Doyle, Arthur Conan
24,945 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 44 (College)Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Franklin, Benjamin
24,809 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 56 (Graduate)Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
24,698 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 41 (College)The divine comedy
Dante Alighieri
24,509 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 43 (College)War and Peace
Tolstoy, Leo, graf
24,313 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 51 (Graduate)Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Douglass, Frederick
23,947 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 58 (Graduate)White nights, and other stories
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
23,874 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 36 (High School)Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
Swift, Jonathan
23,832 Gutenberg downloadsen1997Difficulty 55 (Graduate)The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original
Homer
23,430 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 52 (Graduate)Beyond Good and Evil
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
23,414 Gutenberg downloadsen2003Difficulty 66 (Academic)The Mysteries of Udolpho
Radcliffe, Ann Ward
23,358 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 59 (Graduate)警世通言
Feng, Menglong
22,496 Gutenberg downloadszh2008The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
22,214 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 34 (High School)The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
Poe, Edgar Allan
21,845 Gutenberg downloadsen2000Difficulty 49 (College)The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
Malet, Lucas
21,771 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Peter Pan : $b [Peter and Wendy]
Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
21,650 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 35 (High School)Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 4), I-Q
Boase, Frederic
21,644 Gutenberg downloadsen2023Difficulty 47 (College)The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself
Equiano, Olaudah
21,317 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 48 (College)Carmen
Mérimée, Prosper
21,207 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 41 (College)Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes
Sophocles
20,775 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 44 (College)The Secret of Chimneys
Christie, Agatha
20,321 Gutenberg downloadsen2021Difficulty 36 (High School)The Lady of the Lake
Scott, Walter
20,207 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 53 (Graduate)The Green Mummy
Hume, Fergus
19,515 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 44 (College)The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
Leblanc, Maurice
19,098 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 45 (College)The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)
Unknown
16,781 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 62 (Academic)The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
Forster, John
15,049 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 67 (Academic)Die Traumdeutung
Freud, Sigmund
14,241 Gutenberg downloadsde2012The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks
Vatsyayana
13,597 Gutenberg downloadsen2009Difficulty 51 (Graduate)Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler : $b Roman
Jacques, Norbert
13,563 Gutenberg downloadsde2015I. Beowulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: a fragment.
Unknown
13,538 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 59 (Graduate)The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
Wollstonecraft, Mary
13,170 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 55 (Graduate)Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude
Bidwell, Austin
12,094 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 58 (Graduate)The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End
James, Henry
7,144 Gutenberg downloadsen2013Difficulty 40 (High School)The 2006 CIA World Factbook
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
3,176 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 79 (Expert)Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 3 (of 3)
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
3,149 Gutenberg downloadsen2018Difficulty 55 (Graduate)Charles Bradlaugh: a Record of His Life and Work, Volume 1 (of 2) With an Account of his Parliamentary Struggle, Politics and Teachings. Seventh Edition
Bonner, Hypatia Bradlaugh & Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
3,089 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 66 (Academic)The 2003 CIA World Factbook
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
2,199 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 87 (Specialist)The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
Gillespie, George
927 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 63 (Academic)