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The beauty of the public domain is that after an author’s death, his or her works eventually become freely available to the public. This allows websites like Project Gutenberg to index countless classic texts for people to read online or download.

This is an opportunity no enterprising mind can neglect. To help you find the best of the best, we’ve compiled a list of books that seek to uncover the nature of humanity. Happy reading!

   1. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods  by Henry David Thoreau - A remarkable account of a man seeking a more simple life by living in harmony with nature.

plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h.zip 
   2. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin - The book that revolutionized the natural sciences and every literary, philosophical and religious thinker who followed.

plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/otoos11.zip   
   3. The Iliad by Homer - The Iliad is one of the two great epics of Homer, and is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time.

pdfhttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/6130/6130-pdf.zip 
 
  4. Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson - The perfect volume for readers wishing to explore the works of one of America’s first poets.

audio-bookhttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/22444/mp3/22444-06.mp3   
   5. The Art of War by Sunzi - A book which should be used to gain advantage of opponents in the boardroom and battlefield alike.

plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/132/132.zip   
   6. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli - Its essential contribution to modern political thought lies in Machiavelli’s assertion of the then revolutionary idea that theological and moral imperatives have no place in the political arena.
 
plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232.zip   
   7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - A superb evocation of a time and place;  a complex, detailed character study; a believable and compelling plot; and, more than anything else, a magnificent love story.
   
plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/1260/1260.zip   
   8. A Tales of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - This story of the French Revolution brings to life a time of terror and treason, and a starving people rising in frenzy and hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime.
 
 audio-bookhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7869   
   9. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain - Perhaps the best-loved nineteenth-century American novel, Mark Twain’s tale of boyhood adventure overflows with comedy, warmth, and slapstick energy.

plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/74/74.zip 
  10. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - One of the greatest tales of revenge of all time.
 
 plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/1184/1184.zip 
  11. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - A s Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture.
 
plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/2600/2600.zip
 
  12. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson - The writings featured here show Emerson as a protester against social conformity, a lover of nature, an activist for the rights of women and slaves, and a poet of great sensitivity.
 
 plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/16643/16643.zip
  13. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - One of literature’s most disturbing explorations into the dark side of romantic passion. Heathcliff and Cathy believe they’re destined to love each other forever, but when cruelty and snobbery separate them, their untamed emotions literally consume them.
 
plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/768/768.zip
  14. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s preeminent dramatist.
 
plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext94/shaks12.zip 
  15. Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato - The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy, based on Socrates’ manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibility.

plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/13726/13726.zip 
  16. Symposium by Plato - Plato explores, through a series of speeches, the nature and origins of love and passion.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/1600/1600.zip
  17. The Divine Comedy by Dante - A moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/0ddcc10.zip 
  18. Paradise Lost by John Milton - Considered to be the greatest epic poem in English literature. Its roots lie in the Genesis account of the world’s creation and Adam and Eve’s expulsion from Eden.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext91/plboss10.zip 
  19. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw - A perceptive comedy of wit and wisdom about the unique relationship between a spunky cockney flower-girl and her irascible speech professor.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/pygml10.zip 
  20. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - “The most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/1322/1322.zip 
  21. The Works of Aristotle - Aristotle’s views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/12699/12699.zip 
  22. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a collection of pilgrims on a pilgrimage from London Borough of Sout Canterbury.

  audio-bookhttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/23722/mp3/ 
  23. The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce - Bierce was an iconoclastic literary genius and this compilation of definitions (written for a satirical magazine during the 1880s) is a true American classic. Some may find Bierce sexist, nationalist and racist, but most readers will enjoy his malevolent scepticism and underlying rage against hypocrisy.

plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972.zip 
  24. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne - A group of men set sail to solve the mystery of a sea monster in this amazing underwater adventure.

audio-bookhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6538 
  25. Moby Dick by Herman Melville - A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him.
  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext91/moby.zip 
  26. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - Exploring the workings of consciousness as well as the grim realities of imperialism, Heart of Darkness tells of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, who journeys into the heart of the African continent to discover how the enigmatic Kurtz has gained power over the local people.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/219/219.zip 
  27. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - This dark psychological fantasy is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution, criminality, and secret lives.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext92/hyde10.zip 
  28. Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary - A series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought.[/color]

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/18569/18569.zip 
  29. Candide by Voltaire - In the story of the trials and travails of the youthful Candide, his mentor Dr. Pangloss, and a host of other characters, Voltaire mercilessly satirizes and exposes romance, science, philosophy, religion and government.
 
 plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/19942/19942.zip 
  30. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo - An epic tale of beauty and sadness, The Hunchback of Notre Dame portrays the sufferings of humanity with compassion and power.

  audio-bookhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6539 
  31. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo - In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean–a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert–Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/135/135.zip 
  32. Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac - A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac’s “real entrée” into La Comédie Humaine, his series of almost one hundred novels and short stories meant to depict “the whole pell-mell of civilization.”

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/1237/1237.zip 
  33. The Atheist’s Mass by Honore de Balzac - Bianchon, who was with Desplein all through his last illness, dares not affirm to this day that the great surgeon died an atheist.
 
 plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/1220/1220.zip 
  34. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Dostoyevsky’s first masterpiece, the novel is a psychological analysis of the poor student Raskolnikov, whose theory that humanitarian ends justify evil means leads him to murder a St. Petersburg pawnbroker.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/2554/2554.zip 
  35. Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted, this classic tells of a mid-19th-century Russian official’s breakaway from society and descent “underground”.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/600/600.zip 
  36. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - The story of fiercely independent Elizabeth Bennet, one of five sisters who must marry rich, as she confounds the arrogant, wealthy Mr. Darcy.

  pdfhttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/1342/1342-pdf.zip 
  37. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - A wonderfully entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two starkly different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.

  pdfhttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/161/161-pdf.zip 
  38. The Tao Te Ching by Laozi - Reportedly written by a sage named Lao Tzu over 2,500 years ago, the Tao Te Ching is one of the most succinct–and yet among the most profound–spiritual texts ever written.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/216/216.zip 
  39. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - A scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful

  audio-bookhttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/20038/mp3/ 
  40. The Complete Works of P.B. Shelley - One of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets in the English language.
 
 plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/shlyc10.zip 
  41. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe - The old story still stands up as one of the best adventure yarns for children who are interested in tales of shipwreck.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/11866/11866.zip 
  42. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe - Defoe’s excellence it is, to make me forget my specific class, character, and circumstances, and to raise me while I read him, into the universal man.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/18112/18112-8.zip 
  43. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift - Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver’s encounters with the petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos give him new, bitter insights into human behavior.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/gltrv10.zip 
  44. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck’s dad returns and kidnaps him, he must escape down the Mississippi river with runaway slave, Jim.

  audio-bookhttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/19640/mp3/ 
  45. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes - In 1651, Hobbes published his work about the relationship between the government and the individual. More than four centuries old, this brilliant yet ruthless book analyzes not only the bases of government but also physical nature and the roles of man.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext02/lvthn10.zip 
  46. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche - In the book the philosopher attempts to systematically sum up his philosophy through a collection of 296 aphorisms grouped into nine different chapters based on their common theme.
 
 plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/bygdv10.zip 
  47. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche - This book addresses the problem of how to live a fulfilling life in a world without meaning, in the aftermath of “the death of God.” His solution lies in the idea of eternal recurrence, which he calls “the highest formula of affirmation that can ever be attained.”

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998.zip 
  48. The Lifted Veil by George Eliot - A dark fantasy drawing on contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain, mesmerism, phrenology, and experiments in revification, it is Eliot’s anatomy of her own moral philosophy.

  audio-bookhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9674 
  49. Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence - The first modern portrayal of a phenomenon that later, thanks to Freud, became easily recognizable as the Oedipus complex.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/217/217.zip 
  50. Women in Love by DH Lawrence - Women in Love examines the ill effects of industrialization on the human psyche, resolving that individual and collective rebirth is possible only through human intensity and passion.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/wmnlv10.zip 
  51. White Fang by Jack London - The story of a wolf-dog who endures great cruelty before he comes to know human kindness.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/910/910.zip 
  52. Call of the Wild by Jack London - This gripping story follows the adventures of the loyal dog Buck, who is stolen from his comfortable family home and forced into the harsh life of an Alaskan sled dog.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/215/215.zip 
  53. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - Lamenting the loss of a gentle but passionate woman, the narrator drinks, yet somberly dwells on her name.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/14082/14082-8.zip 
  54. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe - The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, with its dungeon of death, and the overhanging gloom on the House of Usher demonstrate unforgettably the unique imagination of Edgar Allan Poe.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/usher10.zip 
  55. Dracula by Bram Stoker - A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended generation, language, and culture to become one of the most popular novels ever written.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/345/345.zip 
  56. Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker - Set in central England, the work is brimming with adventure and excitement.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/1188/1188.zip 
  57. Discourse by Descartes - One of the few works of philosophy that absolutely every educated person needs to read at least once.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/25830/25830.zip 
  58. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/advsh12.zip 
  59. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - The story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/cprfd10.zip 
  60. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - Dickens’ haunting late novel depicts Pip’s education and development through adversity as he discovers thetrue nature of his ‘great expectations’.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/grexp10.zip 
  61. Aesop’s Fables - Full of humor, insight, and wit, the tales in Aesop’s Fables champion the value of hard work and perseverance, compassion for others, and honesty. They are age-old wisdom in a delicious form, for the consumption of adults and children alike.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/21/21.zip 
  62. Beowulf by Anonymous - Warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/981/981.zip 
  63. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history.
 
 plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/20203/20203.zip 
  64. Common Sense by Thomas Paine - Thomas Paine’s clear and concise writings make him one of the greatest political authors of his time.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/147/147.zip 
  65. The Ambassadors by Henry James - The most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/432/432.zip 
  66. Daisy Miller by Henry James - A novel that plays upon the contrast between American and European society that is common to James’s work.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/208/208.zip 
  67. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - A tale of psychological horror as the governess struggles-and ultimately fails-to protect the children from the “corruption” that only she can conceive of…but cannot name.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/209/209.zip 
  68. Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe - A Greek myth in which Hero is a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/18781/18781.zip 
  69. Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen - The story of its title character, Hedda, a self-centered manipulative woman who has grown tired of her marriage. To escape her boredom she begins to meddle in the lives of others with truly tragic results.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/hddgb10.zip 
  70. The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen - The play explores the needs of the artist in relation to those of society and the limits of artistic creativity.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/mbldr10.zip 
  71. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers’ imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/996/996.zip 
  72. Dubliners by James Joyce - In “Dubliners,” Joyce’s first attempt to register in language and fictive form the protean complexities of the ‘reality of experience, ‘ he learns the paradoxical lesson that only through the most rigorous economy, only by concentrating on the minutest of particulars, can he have any hope of engaging with the immensity of the world.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/2814/2814.zip 
  73. Ulysses by James Joyce - To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300.zip 
  74. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce - The novel’s rich, symbolic language and brilliant use of stream-of-consciousness foreshadowed Joyce’s later work.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/prtrt11.zip 
  75. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy - Jude Fawley, a poor stone carver with aspirations toward an academic career, is thwarted at every turn and is finally forced to give up his dreams of a university education.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/153/153.zip 
  76. Far From the Madding of the Crowd by Thomas Hardy - A young man falls victim to his own obsession with an amorous farm girl in this classic novel of fate and unrequited love.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext92/crowd13.zip 
  77. Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Allegorical, supernatural and symbolic themes permeate these strange tales.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/13707/13707.zip 
  78. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - A timeless tale of passion and revenge, guilt and grace, sin and redemption. It cemented Nathaniel Hawthorne’s reputation as America’s greatest writer of fiction.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext92/scrlt13.zip 
  79. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man’s portrait, his subject’s frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray’s picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/174/174.zip 
  80. Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde - Set in London, the play’s action is put in motion by Lady Windermere’s jealousy over her husband’s interest in Mrs. Erlynne, a beautiful older woman with a mysterious past.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/lwfan10.zip 
  81. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde’s madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers’ entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/844/844.zip 
  82. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott - The epitome of the chivalric novel, Ivanhoe sweeps readers into Medieval England and the lives of a memorable cast of characters.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/82/82.zip 
  83. The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott - Widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/3011/3011.zip 
  84. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - One of the handful of books throughout all of history, perhaps, that have encapsulated the crying voices of the oppressed.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140.zip 
  85. The Machine by Upton Sinclair - Another classic tale by Sinclair.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext02/tmchn10.zip 
  86. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper - The classic tale of Hawkeye-Natty Bumppo-the frontier scout who turned his back on “civilization,” and his friendship with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters through the dangerous wilderness of Indian country in frontier America.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/940/940.zip 
  87. The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper - This first of the Leather-Stocking Tales takes us to Lake Otsego in the beginning of the French and Indian Wars. Natty Bumppo, now called Deerslayer, and the Mohican chief Chingachook fight against the Iroquois and discover hidden identities.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/3285/3285.zip 
  88. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father is off to war.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/514/514.zip 
  89. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style.

 plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/2413/2413.zip 
  90. Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert - The novel Salammbo (published in 1862) interweaves historical and fictional characters.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/1290/1290.zip 
  91. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Born into a family of slaves, Frederick Douglass educated himself through sheer determination. His unconquered will to triumph over his circumstances makes his one of America’s best and most unlikely success stories.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23.zip 
  92. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse - A deceptively simple, intense, and lyrical allegorical tale of a man in ancient India striving for enlightenment at the time of Buddha. Siddhartha is a man whose life journey runs in parallel and who may or may not be another version of Buddha himself.
 
 plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/2500/2500.zip 
  93. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Fitzgerald’s first novel uses numerous formal experiments to tell the story of Amory Blaine, as he grows up during the crazy years following the First World War.
 
 plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/805/805.zip 
  94. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells - When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/35/35.zip 
  95. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - The moving abolitionist novel that fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852 and melodramatically condemned the institution of slavery through such powerfully realized characters as Tom, Eliza, Topsy, Eva, and Simon Legree.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/11171/11171.zip 
  96. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding - Tom Jones isn’t a bad guy, but boys just want to have fun. Nearly two and a half centuries after its publication, the adventures of the rambunctious and randy Tom Jones still makes for great reading.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/7tomj10.zip 
  97. The Aeneid by Virgil - What made Virgil special was the artisanship behind his work (which was political, but gracefully and passionately evoked the soul) and the way in which he shaped his borrowed material to his–and Augustus’s and Rome’s–purposes.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/228/228.zip 
  98. The Education of Henry Adams - One of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/eduha10.zip 
  99. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - Smith’s enormous authority resides, in the end, in the same property that we discover in Marx: not in any ideology, but in an effort to see to the bottom of things.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext02/wltnt10.zip
 100. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - He sought to write in the language of ordinary men and women, of ordinary thoughts, sights and sounds, and his early poetry represents this fresh approach to his art.

  plain-texthttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/10219/10219.zip

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