Great Books of the Western World

A bookshelf of free ebooks selected by matthew

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens

On the Origin of Species
or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
by Charles Darwin

Charmides
The Dialogues of Plato
by Plato

Laches
or, Courage
by Plato

Protagoras
by Plato

Euthydemus
by Plato

Ion
by Plato

Symposium
by Plato

The Aeneid
English Translation
by Virgil

The Divine Comedy
(Cary Translation)
by Dante Alighieri

The Prince
by Nicolo Machiavelli

Gargantua and Pantagruel
Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel
by François Rabelais

King Henry VI, Part 1
by William Shakespeare

King Henry VI, Part 2
by William Shakespeare

King Henry VI, Part 3
by William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare

Two Gentlemen of Verona
by William Shakespeare

Love's Labour's Lost
by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare

King Henry IV, Part 1
by William Shakespeare

King Henry IV, Part 2
by William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare

King Henry V
by William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare

Hamlet
by William Shakespeare

The Merry Wives of Windsor
by William Shakespeare

All's Well That Ends Well
by William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure
by William Shakespeare

Othello
by William Shakespeare

King Lear
by William Shakespeare

Macbeth
by William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare

Coriolanus
by William Shakespeare

Timon of Athens
by William Shakespeare

Pericles Prince of Tyre
by William Shakespeare

Cymbeline
by William Shakespeare

The Winter's Tale
by William Shakespeare

The Tempest
by William Shakespeare

King Henry VIII
by William Shakespeare

Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes

Discourse on the Method of Reasoning
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
by René Descartes

Paradise Lost
by John Milton

Paradise Regained
by John Milton

Gulliver's Travels
Into Several Remote Regions of the World
by Jonathan Swift

Candide
(English translation)
by Voltaire

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith

United States Declaration of Independence
by Founding Fathers

The Federalist Papers
(Second version)
by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison

Beyond Good and Evil
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Emma
by Jane Austen

Middlemarch
A Study of Provincial Life
by George Eliot

Moby Dick
or The Whale
by Herman Melville

The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

The Brothers Karamazov
(Brat'ya Karamazovy)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Beast in the Jungle
by Henry James

Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad

Swann's Way
vol 1 of 'Remembrance of Things Past'
by Marcel Proust

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce

Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka

The Prussian Officer
by D.H. Lawrence