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Welcome to Authorama.com, featuring completely free books from a variety of different authors, collected here for you to read online or offline. The books may have been published before, but not in this form, which I hope you find enjoyable to read and print. Feedback is welcome – enjoy the reading.
“The site was something I would never have thought to look for but as
I’ve seen it now it has been a wee surprise. I work offshore on a
pipe-laying vessel and spend six weeks at a time at sea, now I have a
little library of works to read that I print off and use in my off
shift.
The other guys on-board are using it too and it’s thanks to yourself
we’ve got some interesting reading.”
– Brian McGuire
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Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Israel Abrahams: The Book of Delight | Chapters On Jewish Literature
Arthur Achleitner: Celsissimus
Brooks Adams: The Theory of Social Revolutions
W. Bion Adkins: The Jericho Road
Florence Akin: Opera Stories From Wagner
Horatio Alger, Jr.: The Store Boy | Ragged Dick
Meer Hassan Ali: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India
Dante Alighieri: Die Göttliche Komödie
Joseph A. Altsheler: Lords of the Wild
Rahul Alvares: Free From School
Anonymous: Goody Two-Shoes
Hans Christian Andersen: The True Story of My Life
Robert Gordon Anderson: Half-Past Seven Stories
Aristotle: The Poetics
Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
I. Windslow Ayer: The Great North-Western Conspiracy In All Its Startling Details
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Francis Bacon: Essays of Francis Bacon
James Baldwin: Old Greek Stories
Honore de Balzac: The Girl With the Golden Eyes | Father Goriot
Robert Hugh Benson:
Lord of the World
Henri Bergson: Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of Comic
Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Dictionary
Mary Hastings Bradley: The Fortieth Door
Edwin Bryant: What I saw in California
John Buchan: The Thirty-nine Steps
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950, American novelist and creator of Tarzan): At the Earth’s Core
A group of scientists use their drilling machine to get down into the hollow space at the earth’s center.
They find life forms which have survived for millions of years.
(Not to be confused with Jules Verne’s "A Journey to the Center of the Earth".)
Eliza Burt Gamble: The God-Idea of the Ancients
Richard F. Burton: To the Gold Coast for Gold
Samuel Butler: Essays on Life, Art, and Science
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G. Cambrensis: Description of Wales
Campan: Memoirs of Marie Antoinette | Memoirs of Marie Antoinette (B)
Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland (The story of a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole, and into adventure with the White Rabbit, the
Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, and the Cheshire Cat.)
Lewis Carroll was the pseudonym of
Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson,
photographer, lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church Oxford,
and author of kid’s tales "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) and "Through the Looking Glass" (1872).
G.K. Chesterton: The Crimes of England
CIA - The World Factbook 2000: Part A (Afghanistan - Cayman Islands) | Part B (Central African Republic - Haiti) | Part C (Honduras - Madagascar) | Part D (Malawi - Paraguay) | Part E (Peru - Tromelin Island) | Part F (Tunisia - Zimbabwe) | Notes, Definitions, Appendix | Flags
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Richard Henry Dana: Two Years Before the Mast
Andrew McFarland Davis: Indian Games
Richard Harding Davis: The Man Who Could Not Lose | The Amateur | A Wasted Day
Charles Dickens:
A Christmas Carol |
The Lamplighter |
The Seven Poor Travellers |
Sketches of Young Couples |
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
Charles Dickens’ (1812-1870) views on social reform were
influenced by his childhood poverty and feelings of abandonment.
Joseph Devlin: How to Speak and Write Correctly
Cory Doctorow: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom | Microsoft Research DRM Talk | Anda’s game
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from the Underground
Norman Douglas: Old Calabria
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans | The Adventure of the Cardboard Box | The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot
Jonathan Dunn: The Revolutions of Time
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Charles A. Eastman: Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, First Series (this collection contains History, Self-reliance, Compensation, Spiritual laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-Soul, Circles, Intellect, Art) | Essays, Second Series (contains The Poet, Experience, Character, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Politics, Nominalist and Realist, New England Reformers)
Epictetus: The Golden Sayings of Epictetus (Words and wisdom by Epictetus, circa 55-135 AD)
Evelyn Everett-Green: A Heroine of France
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Don Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy: True Version of the Philippine Revolution
John Fiske: The Unseen World and Other Essays
Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest
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Emile Gaboriau: Within an Inch of His Life
Dan Gillmor: We the Media
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, novelist and scientist, author of Faust, and
leading figure of the Sturm und Drang movement. See his biography):
Die Leiden des jungen Werther |
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Hermann and Dorothea |
Hermann und Dorothea
Grimm Brothers: Grimms’ Fairy Tales
George and Weedon Grossmith: Diary of a Nobody ("A hugely entertaining chronicle of English life and trivia in its Victorian heyday.")
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John H. Haaren: Famous Men of the Middle Ages
Lewis Hodus: Buddhism and Buddhists in China
Gordon Home: What to See in England
Horace: The Works of Horace
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George Iles: 19th Century Acor Autobiographies (Library of Little Masterpieces)
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Joseph Jacobs:
Celtic Fairy Tales
|
English Fairy Tales |
Indian Fairy Tales
Fedor Jagor et al:
The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes |
Part II
William James: Pragmatism | Meaning of Truth | The Varieties of Religious Experience | The Varieties of Religious Experience II
Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat
James Johonnot: Ten Great Events in History
Henry Jones: Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
James Joyce: Ulysses
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Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis
Henry Ketcham: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book
Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie: Wau-Bun
Grenville Kleiser: The World’s Great Sermons
Heinrich von Kleist: Der Zerbrochene Krug
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Stephen Leacock:
The Hohenzollerns in America
Maurice Leblanc: The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
Lawrence Lessig: Free Culture
John Lingard: The History of England | (B)
Henrik van Loon: The Story of Mankind
Jack London: Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories
Sir John Lubbock: The Pleasures of Life
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George Henry Needler: The Nibelungenlied
Friedrich Nietzsche (a German philosopher of late 19th century, challenged foundations of traditional morality with his questioning of doctrines. Famous for his statement that "God is dead!", his works often deal with issues of nihilism and existentialism): Beyond Good and Evil | Die Geburt der Tragödie (German)
Scott Niven: Short Stories by Scott Niven
Bill Nye: Remarks | Remarks (B)
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Mrs. Oliphant: Jeanne d’Arc (Joan of Arc)
Lyndon Orr: Famous Affinities of History (I of IV) | Famous Affinities of History (II of IV) | Famous Affinities of History (III of IV) | Famous Affinities of History (IV of IV)
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Frank L. Packard:
The Adventures of Jimmie Dale Part I
The Adventures of Jimmie Dale Part II
Brett Page: Writing for Vaudeville (A) | Writing for Vaudeville (B)
Paine: The Boys’ Life of Mark Twain | The Old Merchant Marine
George Herbert Palmer: The Nature of Goodness
Gilbert Parker: The Money Master
Dewitt H. Parker:
The Principles Of Aesthetics
Edward Harper Parker: Ancient China Simplified
John H. Parker: Gatlings at Santiago
Walter Horatio Pater: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry | Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays
Bliss Perry: The American Spirit in Literature | A Study of Poetry
David Graham Phillips: The Second Generation
Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann’s Way I | Swann’s Way II
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Thomas de Quincey: Miscellaneous Essays
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Kate Milner Rabb: National Epics
Walter Raleigh: England and the War
Louise de la Ramee: Bimbi
Ransome: Crisis in Russia
Raspe: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
A.E.J. Rawlinson: Religious Reality
Joshua Reynolds: Seven Discourses On Art
Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica
Laura E. Richards: Melody
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Edward Salisbury Field: Cupid’s Understudy
Leader Scott: Fra Bartolommeo
Ernest Thompson Seton: Two Little Savages
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Johanna Spyri: Heidi
Frank Preston Stearns: Cambridge Sketches
Robert Louis Stevenson: Fables | Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Donald Ogden Stewart: A Parody Outline of History
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H.D. Traill: Sterne
Mark Twain (an American writer, humorist, and journalist, most famous for his stories of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He is also originator of many anecdotes, quips and quotes): A Dog’s Tale |
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Alfred R. Wallace: The Malay Archipelago, Volume I | The Malay Archipelago, Volume II
H.G. Wells ("English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian, whose science-fiction stories have been filmed many times. Wells’s best known books are The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898)." -- From: H.G. Wells - Biography and Works): The War of the Worlds (This book from 1898 pictures Earth invasions by Martians, launching a whole new sub-genre of alien sci-fi. On Halloween 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Teater scared thousands of radio listeners with their presentation of the story a series of fake "live" news bulletins -- people believed America was under attack by aliens and panicked)
Oscar Wilde:
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Salome
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Cao Xueqin: Hung Lou Meng I (A) | Hung Lou Meng I (B) | Hung Lou Meng II (A) | Hung Lou Meng II (B)
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Emile Zola: L’Assommoir | Doctor Pascal
wordburn (wûrd'bûrn) n. - Inflammation or blistering of the brain caused by overexposure to direct words