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Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
198,164 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
Melville, Herman
164,301 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 46 (College)The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original
Homer
120,932 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 52 (Graduate)The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan
119,794 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 38 (High School)The Mysteries of Udolpho
Radcliffe, Ann Ward
119,554 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 59 (Graduate)Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William
116,214 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 36 (High School)A Room with a View
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
115,764 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 38 (High School)Carmen
Mérimée, Prosper
111,826 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 41 (College)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
104,902 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 37 (High School)The Blue Castle: a novel
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
104,422 Gutenberg downloadsen2022Difficulty 46 (College)Dracula
Stoker, Bram
103,941 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 44 (College)The Green Mummy
Hume, Fergus
101,171 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 44 (College)The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
97,689 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 39 (High School)The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William
96,639 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 56 (Graduate)Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
Brontë, Charlotte
95,505 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 50 (College)The King in Yellow
Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
93,459 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 47 (College)Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
93,352 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 43 (College)Middlemarch
Eliot, George
85,772 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
85,198 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 41 (College)The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dickens, Charles
82,040 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 39 (High School)Under the Red Dragon: A Novel
Grant, James
81,959 Gutenberg downloadsen2017Difficulty 53 (Graduate)The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
Leblanc, Maurice
81,952 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 45 (College)The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
81,534 Gutenberg downloadsen1992Difficulty 39 (High School)The Monk: A Romance
Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory)
81,058 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 50 (College)My Life — Volume 1
Wagner, Richard
80,827 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Eloisa : $b or, A series of original letters
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
78,866 Gutenberg downloadsen2025Difficulty 52 (Graduate)Four Arthurian Romances
Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century
78,781 Gutenberg downloadsen1997Difficulty 63 (Academic)Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
75,988 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 50 (College)The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle, Arthur Conan
75,965 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 42 (College)A farewell to arms
Hemingway, Ernest
75,011 Gutenberg downloadsen2025Difficulty 30 (Middle School)Manon Lescaut
Prévost, abbé
74,997 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 50 (College)The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Sidney, Philip
74,707 Gutenberg downloadsen2023Difficulty 73 (Expert)That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day
Dehan, Richard
74,360 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
Poe, Edgar Allan
73,908 Gutenberg downloadsen2000Difficulty 49 (College)Cameron of Lochiel
Aubert de Gaspé, Philippe
71,985 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 51 (Graduate)Only a girl's love
Garvice, Charles
71,644 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 56 (Graduate)One of the Six Hundred: A Novel
Grant, James
71,134 Gutenberg downloadsen2017Difficulty 53 (Graduate)The Blue Lagoon: A Romance
Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
69,981 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 39 (High School)Catriona
Stevenson, Robert Louis
68,186 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 34 (High School)Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Alcott, Louisa May
66,570 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 41 (College)A Study in Scarlet
Doyle, Arthur Conan
65,902 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 44 (College)The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre & Maquet, Auguste
65,180 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 35 (High School)The Lady of the Lake
Scott, Walter
59,893 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 53 (Graduate)Twenty years after
Dumas, Alexandre & Maquet, Auguste
59,758 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 51 (Graduate)I am a woman
Bannon, Ann
59,452 Gutenberg downloadsen2025Difficulty 33 (High School)Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude
Bidwell, Austin
58,777 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Thuvia, maid of Mars
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
58,543 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 44 (College)Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Douglass, Frederick
58,389 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 58 (Graduate)The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2
Stevenson, Burton Egbert
58,375 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 41 (College)Love and Freindship [sic]
Austen, Jane
57,391 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 54 (Graduate)Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
56,986 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Sonnets from the Portuguese
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
56,670 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 39 (High School)As You Like It
Shakespeare, William
56,401 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 35 (High School)A pair of blue eyes
Hardy, Thomas
56,246 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 46 (College)Undine
La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de
55,611 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 52 (Graduate)Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)
Dumas, Alexandre
55,470 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 49 (College)Complete Short Works of George Meredith
Meredith, George
55,314 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 42 (College)The Red Lily — Complete
France, Anatole
54,890 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 43 (College)Erotica Romana
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
54,003 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 42 (College)Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
52,946 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 48 (College)The Misplaced Battleship
Harrison, Harry
51,104 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 37 (High School)Around the World in Eighty Days
Verne, Jules
50,697 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 48 (College)Life on the Mississippi
Twain, Mark
50,425 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 48 (College)The Secret of Chimneys
Christie, Agatha
50,307 Gutenberg downloadsen2021Difficulty 36 (High School)Roméo et Juliette Tragédie
Shakespeare, William
49,717 Gutenberg downloadsfr2006The Yeoman Adventurer
Gough, George W.
47,766 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 35 (High School)The Confessions of St. Augustine
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
47,665 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 42 (College)Dracula
Stoker, Bram
47,062 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 42 (College)Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
Day, Holman
45,574 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 39 (High School)Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William
44,259 Gutenberg downloadsen1997Difficulty 38 (High School)Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Dickens, Charles
42,032 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 43 (College)The Sex Life of the Gods
Knerr, M. E. (Michael E.)
41,358 Gutenberg downloadsen2012Difficulty 35 (High School)The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Bédier, Joseph
40,620 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 41 (College)The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance.
Rymer, James Malcolm & Prest, Thomas Peckett
40,572 Gutenberg downloadsen2019Difficulty 40 (High School)Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
39,281 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 46 (College)Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Colonna, Francesco
39,081 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 62 (Academic)Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
Leroux, Gaston
38,259 Gutenberg downloadsfr2020The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)
Unknown
35,983 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 62 (Academic)Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Franklin, Benjamin
35,736 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 56 (Graduate)The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
Wollstonecraft, Mary
35,514 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 55 (Graduate)Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
33,256 Gutenberg downloadsen2013Difficulty 40 (High School)The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen A Linked Index of all PG Editions of Jane Austen
Austen, Jane
32,900 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 60 (Graduate)Moods
Alcott, Louisa May
32,055 Gutenberg downloadsen2009Difficulty 40 (High School)Cynthia's Chauffeur
Tracy, Louis
31,257 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 42 (College)The Silent Barrier
Tracy, Louis
31,194 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 41 (College)King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Malory, Thomas, Sir
30,963 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 52 (Graduate)Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q
Boase, Frederic
30,836 Gutenberg downloadsen2023Difficulty 47 (College)The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes
Henry VIII, King of England
30,817 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 55 (Graduate)Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts: Novelle
Eichendorff, Joseph, Freiherr von
30,220 Gutenberg downloadsde2011The Pirate Andrew Lang Edition
Scott, Walter
29,584 Gutenberg downloadsen2013Difficulty 55 (Graduate)What Will People Say? A Novel
Hughes, Rupert
29,269 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 45 (College)On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau
Hillern, Wilhelmine von
28,704 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 54 (Graduate)A Honeymoon in Space
Griffith, George Chetwynd
28,678 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 44 (College)The Passionate Elopement
MacKenzie, Compton
28,652 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 49 (College)Doctor Cupid: A Novel
Broughton, Rhoda
28,507 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 44 (College)The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty
Dumas, Alexandre
27,581 Gutenberg downloadsen2013Difficulty 38 (High School)The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California
Aimard, Gustave
25,316 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 58 (Graduate)The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
Malet, Lucas
24,311 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times
James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
23,918 Gutenberg downloadsen2015Difficulty 50 (College)Linnet: A Romance
Allen, Grant
23,697 Gutenberg downloadsen2015Difficulty 48 (College)