Fiction

Agamemnon

By Aeschylus. Translated by E.D.A. Morshead.
In PDF format. An early Greek tragedy. Absolutely free for downloading, reading, printing and passing on.

Baxter's Procrustes

Charles W. Chesnutt
This is a multilayered satire of book collectors and hostile critics and the fin de siecle reading audience who had responded unenthusiastically to most of Chesnutt's work.

Beowulf

Old English poetry in translation. This text is the Grummere verse translation.

The Choephori (Libation Bearers)

By Aeschylus. Translated by E.D.A. Morshead.
In PDF format. Early Greek tragedy. Free to download.

The Decay of Lying

Oscar Wilde
A masterful piece of Plato-istic dialogue, putting Wilde's severe wit and intimidating intellectualism on full display.

Edgar Allan Poe

A collection of the prose fiction by nineteenth-century American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

The Eumenides

By Aeschylus. Translated by E.D.A. Morshead.
In PDF format. The third installment of the Oresteia trilogy.

Fanny Hill or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

 

The Golden Asse

The humorous narrative in eleven books by Lucius Apuleius.

The Innocence of Father Brown

 

Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887

 

Lumen

 

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe
The autobiography of Moll Flanders, woman of the world.

Notes from Underground

Dostoyevsky's fascinating work of a nameless narrator exploring religious, social and moral themes that would come to be expressed in his later novels.

Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave

Aphra Behn
 

Poetics

By Aristotle. Translated by S.H. Butcher.
In PDF format. Literary Criticism starts here. Excellent book for analyzing Greek drama and theatrical structure.

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Rudyard Kipling
The story of a boy and his mongoose.

Troilus and Criseyde