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FREEThe Origin of Species for Young Readers
Darwin's Big Idea: A Young Reader's Guide to Evolution. A clear, student-friendly adaptation that explains species, variation, natural selection, fossils, islands, and the tree of life.
FREEOn the Origin of Species
Darwin's landmark work explaining evolution by natural selection, presented here from the sixth London edition with its main chapters and glossary.
FREEAndersen's Fairy Tales
A beloved collection of eighteen timeless fairy tales by the master Danish storyteller, including The Emperor's New Clothes, The Snow Queen, The Little Match Girl, The Red Shoes, and fifteen more enchanting stories that have captivated readers around the world for nearly two centuries.
FREEThe Story of Doctor Dolittle
The enchanting tale of Doctor John Dolittle of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, a kind physician who discovers he can talk to animals and embarks on an extraordinary voyage to Africa to save the monkeys from a terrible plague.
FREEBowser the Hound
Bowser the Hound is lured deep into the wilderness by the cunning Old Man Coyote and becomes hopelessly lost. Follow this loyal hound's thrilling adventure as he struggles to find his way home, with unlikely help from Blacky the Crow.
FREEMother Goose in Prose
L. Frank Baum's delightful debut book retells twenty-two beloved Mother Goose nursery rhymes as charming prose stories — from Sing a Song o' Sixpence to Humpty Dumpty — illustrated by the legendary Maxfield Parrish.
FREETum Tum, the Jolly Elephant
Tum Tum is the jolliest elephant in the circus! Follow his adventures from the jungles of India, where he is caught by hunters, to his exciting life performing in an American circus—full of friendship, bravery, and fun.
FREEDot and the Kangaroo
A charming Australian classic in which little Dot, lost in the bush, befriends a kind Kangaroo who carries her through the wilderness, introducing her to the wonders and plight of native animals.
FREEPeter and Wendy
The most famous adventure of Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow up, and the Darling children in Neverland.
FREEMy Father's Dragon
A classic children's novel about a young boy named Elmer Elevator who runs away to Wild Island to rescue a baby dragon.
FREEThe Queen of the Pirate Isle
A charming children's tale about a group of children who pretend to be pirates, discovering a real 'treasure' in a hidden gold mine.
FREETom Jones
The spirited, good-natured foundling Tom Jones pursues love and adventure through 18th-century England in this comic epic.
FREEBarchester Towers
Power struggles in a cathedral city: a new bishop's wife and his scheming chaplain plot to dominate the diocese in Trollope's comic masterpiece.
FREEThérèse Raquin
A bored, passionless woman and her lover murder her husband — then are slowly destroyed by guilt and mutual hatred.
FREEThe Last of the Mohicans
Hawkeye and his Mohican companions guide two sisters through the wilderness during the French and Indian War.
FREEJourney to the Center of the Earth
A German professor leads his nephew and a guide down a volcanic crater into a vast subterranean world of prehistoric life.
FREECandide
Young Candide is expelled from paradise and endures disaster after disaster, while his optimist tutor insists this is the best of all possible worlds.
FREEGerminal
A young miner joins a community of coal workers and organises a doomed strike against the crushing mine owners.
FREEThe Warden
A gentle warden of an almshouse faces a reform campaign that questions whether his comfortable position is truly justified.
FREEThe Scarlet Letter
Hester Prynne bears a scarlet A for adultery in Puritan Boston while her secret lover suffers in silence.
FREEIvanhoe
A disinherited knight returns to Richard I's England, jousting in tournaments and battling alongside Robin Hood to reclaim his honour.
FREEThe Prisoner of Zenda
An Englishman impersonates a kidnapped king to save a fictional European monarchy in this classic adventure romance.
FREEThree Men in a Boat
Three hypochondriac friends and a dog take a boating holiday up the Thames — one of the funniest books in the English language.
FREEShe
Two English adventurers discover a hidden African kingdom ruled by the immortal queen Ayesha — 'She-who-must-be-obeyed'.
FREEKing Solomon's Mines
Hunter Allan Quatermain leads an expedition across uncharted Africa in search of the legendary diamond mines of King Solomon.
FREEThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Superstitious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane is terrorised by the Headless Horseman in Irving's quintessential American ghost story.
FREEThe Sea-Wolf
A San Francisco literary critic is rescued by the brutal, philosophical sealing schooner captain Wolf Larsen.
FREEWhite Fang
A wild wolf-dog born in the Yukon wilderness is gradually tamed by human kindness — the companion novel to The Call of the Wild.
FREEThe Call of the Wild
Buck, a domesticated dog, is stolen and thrust into the brutal Klondike Gold Rush, where he must answer the call of his wild ancestors.
FREEThe Mysterious Island
Five American prisoners escape by balloon and are stranded on a remote Pacific island, using science and ingenuity to survive.
FREEAround the World in Eighty Days
The meticulous Phileas Fogg bets he can circumnavigate the globe in exactly eighty days — and sets off immediately.
FREETwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Professor Aronnax is captured by the mysterious Captain Nemo and taken aboard the Nautilus on an extraordinary underwater voyage.
FREEKim
An orphan boy in British India becomes a spy for the Great Game between Britain and Russia — Kipling's richest, most complex novel.
FREEThe Jungle Book
Mowgli the man-cub is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, befriending Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther.
FREEUncle Tom's Cabin
The novel that helped ignite the American Civil War — a powerful depiction of the brutal realities of slavery.
FREERobinson Crusoe
Shipwrecked on a tropical island for 28 years, Robinson Crusoe must use his ingenuity to survive alone — then discovers a human footprint in the sand.
FREEGulliver's Travels
Ship's surgeon Gulliver visits Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and other fantastical lands — Swift's savage satire of politics and human nature.
FREEDon Quixote
A country gentleman, convinced he is a knight, sets out with Sancho Panza on comic adventures that blur romance, reality, and imagination.
FREEThe Sorrows of Young Werther
Told through letters, a sensitive young artist's unrequited passion spirals into despair — the defining Romantic tragedy.
FREEPère Goriot
Old Goriot sacrifices everything for daughters who take his money and abandon him — Balzac's tragedy of paternal love and Parisian ambition.
FREEMadame Bovary
Emma Bovary, bored by provincial life and a dull husband, seeks escape through romantic fantasies and disastrous love affairs.
FREENotre-Dame de Paris
The tragic tale of Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, and his doomed love for the dancer Esmeralda.
FREELes Misérables
Ex-convict Jean Valjean seeks redemption against the relentless pursuit of Inspector Javert in Hugo's monumental portrait of French society.
FREEThe Three Musketeers
Young d'Artagnan joins the legendary Musketeers — Athos, Porthos and Aramis — in swashbuckling adventures to protect the French crown.
FREEThe Count of Monte Cristo
Wrongly imprisoned Edmond Dantès escapes and uses a vast hidden fortune to exact elaborate revenge on those who betrayed him.
FREEVanity Fair
The scheming Becky Sharp claws her way up from poverty through Georgian society while her selfless friend Amelia suffers.
FREEThe Brothers Karamazov
The murder of a despised father implicates three very different brothers — Dostoevsky's final and greatest novel.
FREECrime and Punishment
A young student murders a pawnbroker convinced he is above moral law, then is consumed by guilt and psychological torment.
FREEAnna Karenina
A married Russian aristocrat falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Count Vronsky in Tolstoy's study of society and moral freedom.
FREEWar and Peace
Tolstoy's sweeping epic follows five aristocratic families through the Napoleonic Wars, exploring love, death, and the nature of history.
FREEKidnapped
David Balfour is kidnapped and transported to Scotland, where he must survive betrayal and pursuit across the Highlands.
FREEStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A respected London doctor discovers a potion that unleashes his darkest impulses in a terrifying alternate identity.
FREETreasure Island
Young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and sets sail to find Captain Flint's buried gold — with pirates in pursuit.
FREEThe Works of Edgar Allan Poe
A collection of Poe's finest tales of mystery and imagination, including The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher.
FREEThe House of the Seven Gables
An ancient New England family is haunted by a centuries-old curse bound to their crumbling ancestral mansion.
FREEThe Portrait of a Lady
Independent American Isabel Archer travels to Europe and is manipulated into a disastrous marriage in James' finest novel.
FREEThe Turn of the Screw
A governess believes the children in her care are being haunted — or is she the one losing her mind? James' masterpiece of ambiguity.
FREELord Jim
A disgraced English sailor seeks redemption in the South Seas after a single moment of cowardice defines his life.
FREEHeart of Darkness
Marlow journeys up the Congo River to find the enigmatic ivory trader Kurtz, confronting the darkness within colonialism and human nature.
FREESilas Marner
A miserly weaver is transformed by the arrival of an abandoned child — a fable of greed, redemption, and community.
FREEMiddlemarch
A panoramic study of life in the English Midlands — idealism, marriage, politics, and the limits of self-knowledge.
FREETess of the d'Urbervilles
A young country woman is exploited and cast out by society in Hardy's devastating critique of Victorian moral hypocrisy.
FREEFar from the Madding Crowd
The independent Bathsheba Everdene is wooed by three very different men in Hardy's first major success.
Wuthering Heights
The tempestuous love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw tears apart two families across the wild Yorkshire moors.
FREEVillette
Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, in Brontë's most psychologically rich novel.
FREEJane Eyre
Orphaned Jane Eyre becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall and falls in love with the brooding, mysterious Mr Rochester.
FREEThe Island of Doctor Moreau
A shipwrecked man discovers a remote island where a vivisectionist is creating grotesque human-animal hybrids.
FREEThe Invisible Man
A scientist discovers the secret of invisibility, but the power transforms him into a dangerous, isolated outcast.
FREEThe War of the Worlds
Martians invade Victorian England in Wells' chilling vision of technological supremacy and human helplessness.
FREEThe Time Machine
A scientist travels far into the future and discovers the ultimate fate of humanity and the Earth.
FREEA Study in Scarlet
The very first Sherlock Holmes story — a murder mystery that stretches from London's streets to the Utah desert.
FREEThe Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes and Watson investigate a supernatural hound said to haunt the Baskerville family across the Devonshire moors.
FREEThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Twelve stories featuring consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson solving baffling cases.
FREEThrough the Looking-Glass
Alice steps through a mirror into a surreal chess-board world full of talking flowers, backwards logic, and the Jabberwock.
FREEAlice's Adventures in Wonderland
Young Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures.
FREEDracula
Count Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse.
FREEThe Importance of Being Earnest
Wilde's sparkling comedy of manners skewers Victorian society through two friends who both claim the fictitious name 'Ernest'.
FREEThe Picture of Dorian Gray
A young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty, while his portrait bears the marks of his corruption.
FREEMoby-Dick
The obsessive quest of Captain Ahab to seek revenge on the white whale that took his leg.
FREEThe Last Man
Set in the late 21st century, a plague sweeps across civilisation and one man is left to wander a dying world.
FREEFrankenstein
Victor Frankenstein creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment, with terrifying consequences.
FREEA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A 19th-century American engineer wakes up in medieval Camelot and uses his modern knowledge to shake up the feudal order.
FREEThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The mischievous Tom Sawyer whitewashes fences, hunts buried treasure, and stumbles into real danger in this beloved portrait of boyhood.
FREEAdventures of Huckleberry Finn
Young Huck Finn escapes his abusive father and journeys down the Mississippi River with Jim, an escaped slave.
FREEA Christmas Carol
The miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him visions that transform his cold heart.
FREEGreat Expectations
Young Pip's life changes when a mysterious benefactor funds his transformation into a gentleman — a story of ambition, love, and self-discovery.
FREEOliver Twist
An orphan boy escapes a workhouse and falls in with a gang of London pickpockets, in Dickens' searing critique of poverty and injustice.
FREEA Tale of Two Cities
Set during the French Revolution, Dickens' gripping tale interweaves the lives of characters in London and Paris.
FREEPersuasion
Anne Elliot is reunited with the naval officer she was once persuaded to reject — a second chance at love told with Austen's sharpest irony.
FREEEmma
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, amuses herself by matchmaking, until she discovers her own heart.
Sense and Sensibility
Two sisters — sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne — search for love and happiness while navigating the social pressures of early 19th-century England.
FREEPride and Prejudice
A witty and romantic story following the Bennet sisters as they navigate love, marriage, and society in Regency-era England.