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Need to write an essay about Macbeth but forgot your Shakespeare at school? Don't have time to come into the library? No cash to buy books? Want to read something that's got more to it than thongs, traveling pants and snogging? Read the classics online for FREE!

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No reader or downloads required. Read these ebooks straight off the Net. Check out the following categories:
::  Adventure
::  Horror
::  Mystery
::  Plays
::  Romance
::  Science Fiction



 Adventure
Arabian Nights
by Andrew Lang

In order to avoid being executed by her husband (the King), Scheherazade tells him an unfinished tale each night, postponing her death ... Read the ebook
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas

On his wedding day, the young Edmond Dantes is arrested and wrongfully condemned to prison. There he devises the perfect plan of revenge ... Read the ebook
The Man in the Iron Mask
by Alexandre Dumas

The Musketeers return for another daring adventure! Who is the secret prisoner locked away in the Bastille? And why must his face be hidden behind a mask? ... Read the ebook
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens

Two men; two lives intertwined. One lost; one spared. Read the novel of tragic fate and courage that will haunt you ... Read the ebook
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas

A country boy travels to Paris to join the legendary Musketeers and soon finds himself in one adventure after another ... Read the ebook
 Horror
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson

A gentle, compassionate scientist uses himself as a subject for one of his experiments and inadvertantly unleashes his dark side ... Read the ebook
Dracula
by Bram Stoker

The Count Dracula of Transylvania has a secret he doesn't want anyone to know ... Read the ebook
Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The tragic tale of a scientist and the monster he creates from bits and pieces of dead bodies and bolts of electricity ... Read the ebook
The Island of Dr. Moreau
by H.G. Wells

The depraved Dr. Moreau conducts unspeakable experiments on a secluded island, creating a new race of frighteningly humanlike creatures ... Read the ebook
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving

The Legend of Ichabod Crane and the fearsome headless horseman! ... Read the ebook
The Phantom of the Opera
by Leroux Gaston

A deformed man haunts an opera house in Paris. He falls in love with the beautiful, young singer and commits the ultimate crime(s) to promote her career ... Read the ebook
 Mystery
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Read A Scandal in Bohemia, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, and more ... Read the ebook
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Read Silver Blaze, The Crooked Man, The Greek Interpreter, The Final Problem, and more ... Read the ebook
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie

An heiress is found fatally poisoned in her room, which is locked from the inside. Hercule Poirot unravels the mystery ... Read the ebook
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes returns from the grave to solve more mysteries ... Read the ebook
The Secret Adversary
by Agatha Christie

As the Lusitania sinks on May 7th 1915, a young woman is approached by a stranger with a rather desperate request ... Read the ebook
 Plays
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare

After he is visited by his father's ghost, Hamlet swears to avenge the King's murder ... Read the ebook
An Ideal Husband
by Oscar Wilde

An entertaining story of blackmail, political corruption, honour and forgiveness ... Read the ebook
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare

A tale of ambition and greed, strange foretellings, and the frailty of the human character ... Read the ebook
Pygmalion
by George Bernard Shaw

The play that became the timeless movie, My Fair Lady. Read the original story of Eliza Doolittle and Professor Higgins ... Read the ebook
Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare

The tragic tale of two young lovers and the lengths to which they will go just to be together ... Read the ebook



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 Romance
Emma
by Jane Austen

A meddling, young girl attempts to play matchmaker for her dear friend, but will she end up falling in love herself?! ... Read the ebook
Pride & Prejudice
by Jane Austen

Mr. Darcy's proud, arrogant and unfriendly behaviour prejudices Elizabeth. Or is Elizabeth proud and Mr. Darcy prejudiced? ... Read the ebook
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The married Hester Prynne refuses to reveal the name of her lover and is forced to wear the Scarlet Letter A (for Adulteress) ... Read the ebook
Sense & Sensibility
by Jane Austen

Two sisters: one wild and passionate; the other, sensible and reserved. Both are about to fall deeply in love ... Read the ebook
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte

The dark, brooding Heathcliff vows to get revenge on those who are responsible for taking his lovely Catherine from him ... Read the ebook
 Science Fiction
Around the World in 80 Days
by Jules Vern

Phileas Fogg undertakes a daring expedition: to travel around the planet in eighty days. Will he make it? ... Read the ebook
A Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

A terrifying "Utopia" consisting of an emotionless society, genetic engineering, test-tube babies, drug abuse, etc. ... Read the ebook
Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne

After a secret message is found challenging scientific theories regarding the core of the earth, a professor decides to travel to the earth's core ... Read the ebook
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
by Jules Verne

After a sea monster has destroyed several ships, a group of men travel beneath the ocean in search of the beast... Read the ebook



The Island of Dr Moreau
by H.G. Wells

The depraved Dr. Moreau conducts unspeakable animal experiments on a remote island...Read now!





      The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
      The Age of Innocence
      Animal Farm
      Anna Karenina
      Anne of Green Gables
      Bulfinch's Mythology
      A Christmas Carol
      Don Quixote
      Great Expectations
      The Great Gatsby
      Gulliver's Travels
      The House of Mirth
      Huckleberry Finn
      The Hunchback of Notre Dame
      Jane Eyre
      The Jungle Book
      Lady Chatterley's Lover
      A Little Princess
      Little Women
      Peter Pan
      The Picture of Dorian Gray
      The Prince & the Pauper
      The Secret Garden
      Tarzan of the Apes
      Treasure Island
      Uncle Tom's Cabin
      White Fang
      The Wind in the Willows



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  Project Gutenberg
  ClassicAuthors.net
  Blackmask.com
  Internet Public Library
  World Wide School

  Amazon.com Free Downloads
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