CANDIDE by Voltaire
Travel across continents, through disasters, and past every conceivable human misery with the most optimistic young man in literature. Read […]
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CABBAGES AND KINGS by O. Henry
Escape to the banana republic of Anchuria, where revolution is a business, romance is a gamble, and every story is
BROTHER JACOB by George Eliot
Enter the world of provincial English commerce and meet the most memorably punished miser in Victorian literature. Read George Eliot’s
BOUVARD AND PÉCUCHET VOLUME 2 by Gustave Flaubert
Follow the two copyists through the second half of their quest for universal understanding, deeper into error and closer to
BOUVARD AND PÉCUCHET by Gustave Flaubert
Meet the two most ambitious, disastrous, and heartbreakingly foolish autodidacts in all of literature. Read Gustave Flaubert’s unfinished masterpiece completely
BOBOK by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Descend into the cemetery and listen to the dead speak. Read Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strangest, most savage, and most overlooked masterpiece
BEYOND LIES THE WUB by Philip K. Dick
Meet the wub. You have never encountered anything like the wub. Read this astonishing debut story from one of science
BARCHESTER TOWERS by Anthony Trollope
Enter the delightful, deceitful, and deeply human world of the ecclesiastical civil war in Anthony Trollope’s beloved classic, and read
BABBITT by Sinclair Lewis
Step into the bustling, conformist world of 1920s America with Sinclair Lewis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and read the complete book
ARMS AND THE MAN by George Bernard Shaw
Delight in George Bernard Shaw’s witty anti-romantic comedy, ‘Arms and the Man’, and read the complete play online for free.