Let the good books pass your time these days, which you can download for free on these websites.
Literature is also included in the increasingly digital world, so it is no wonder that sales of e-readers such as the Kindle are also increasing. And so that you won't be too bored these days, we've searched for valuable online resources waiting for you free editions of literary works by authors such as Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Joseph Conrad, William Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe.
Of course, we support independent bookstores and independent publishers, and we encourage you to grab copies of the books you'd love to have on your bookshelves, but if you can't do that, below you'll find a collection of sites where you can download thousands of books, games and other literary texts! And yes, these websites are completely legit!
1. Classic Bookshelf: here you can find classic novels by various authors, from Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist) to Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre).
2. The Online Books Page: search and database supported by the University of Pennsylvania.
3. Project Gutenberg: this site offers over 27,000 free books!
4. Page by Page Books: look for books by Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), HG Wells (War of the Worlds, The Time Machine), you can even find speeches by former US President George W. Bush.
5. Classic Book Library: genres include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance, and children's literature.
6. DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent book phenomenon The Boneless Man.
7. Read Print: this library hosts the best classics, from George Orwell (1984, Animal Farm), Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers) to George Eliot (Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life) and Charles Darwin (Voyage on the Beagle).
8. Planet eBook: download classic literature: Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment), DH Lawrence (Lady Chatterley's Lover) and Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness).
9. Foxglove: this UK site offers free novels, satires and short stories.
10. Bibliomania: you'll find more than 2,000 classics on this site, along with study guides and reference works.
11. Authorama: books from Google Books and other portals. You will find history books, novels and other literary works.
12. Bartleby: Bartleby offers much more than just classics, but it is the collection of anthologies and other important novels that is "to blame" for making this website famous.
13. Fiction.us (plays): read the theater plays Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya, How important it is to be serious! and Playboy of the Western World.
14. Fiction.us (poetry): here you will find songs like The Raven, O Captain, My Captain and The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.
15. Famous Literary Works: read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickson, John Donne, Lord Byron, and more.
16. Google Poetry: Google Books also offers a larger collection of poetry, from The Canterbury Tales to Beowulf and Walt Whitman.
17. Prohibited books: access the full texts of the books they banned.
18. World eBook Library: this massive collection includes literary classics, encyclopedias, children's books and more.
19. Tribute to women writers: a page of the University of Pennsylvania dedicated to women writers, including those who have received the Newbery Medal.
20. Prize-winning book works: here you'll find the complete texts of Newbery Medal winners, Nobel Prize winners for Literature, and Pulitzer Prize winners.
