If you are one of those people who are just five great book classics short of reading a hundred, here is a potential solution. And it's free! Whether it's just intellectual bragging or hard reading, Kindle offers you some free book classics.
In the name of literary improvement, we searched the best free literature, which Amazon currently offers – be it due to dead authors, laudable volunteers or more lenient publishers. You don't even need a Kindle for the app, you can download it Kindle app for iOS or Android and read books right on your smartphone.
1. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde's only novel and still one of the most frequently cited books (you know: "There's only one thing worse than people talking about you - not talking about you.") today, in full swing, among other things, the "emo era" is also current. With one hand, he pulls back the curtain on the decadent, self-indulgent secret life of Victorian England, and with the other, he tells the reader that there is always a price for debauchery in the end.
2. Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The book from of the Gothic canon, Stevens' tale of a scientist who breaks the laws of nature, succeeds in winning over modern readers. Above all, it is much less kitschy than its countless television and film adaptations.
3. Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island
Castaways land on an island. With their own ingenuity, they arrange their lives, which are not completely peaceful due to mysterious incidents. A typical Robinson story, which inspires respect for all technical studies.
4. Bram Stoker, Dracula
The "protagonist" of the vampire novel, the sinister Count Dracula, resides in a half-ruined castle in Transylvania. Wolves howl around the creepy castle every night. Why are the surrounding locals so afraid of him? Where does he go on moonlit nights? Could it be that he is actually a bloodsucker… a monster that lives forever?
5. John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps
A speeding train, racing cars, a plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, spies and a bit of old-fashioned romance accompany the main character on a breakneck spy adventure. Fast, funny and wild!
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6. GK Chesterton, The Man Who Knew Too Much
The novel inspired Alfred Hitchcock to make not just one, but two film adaptations. It's a mess twelve short stories, eight of which are narrated by a person who felt he knew too much about the government's dirty dealings, you will sucked into the world of secrets.
7. HG Wells, The Time Machine
In the novel The Time Machine, published by HG Wells in 1895, the scientist time travel in the name of science - he believed that only science could change the world. A massive disaster takes him away 800 thousand years into the future, where he finds himself among the Eloi, a people who live on the cliffs and where he discovers, what happened to humanity.
8. Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Adventure story about ruthless hunters of the legendary white whale, is the seminal work of the American writer Herman Melville. It is a multi-layered narrative, with realistic descriptions of the events on the one hand and full of symbolism on the other.
9. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, belongs to classics of English literature of the 19th century. The story of Heathcliff, an orphan who falls in love with an upper-class girl, loses her, and decides that the goal of his life is revenge to her family.
10. Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men In A Boat
The work with the unusual title Three men in a boat, not to mention the dog is a story about three friends, to George, Harris and J. (the initial indicates the author) embarking on a cruise on the Thames. Fourteen days of rowing should strengthen their health, and more than getting in shape and admiring the nature along the way, the three young men care about being on the river to look as stylish as possible and to be good representatives of the modern British young generation.
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