549 works in the public domain, rebuilt as interactive drama: you
play the narrator, the story arrives a line at a time, and where the original gives
its narrator a decision, so do we. 3,467 chapters in all, from
Wu Cheng'en in 1592 to Nella Larsen in 1929.
These are adaptations, not reprints. The text is written for the format rather
than pasted into it — an epistolary novel already is an exchange of turns,
which is why Collins, Stoker and the Brontës suit it so exactly, and why a novel
told in the third person had to be recast before it would work at all. Every one
names the edition it was worked from below.
1774The Sorrows of Young Werther— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain German original; newly written English adaptation
1778The Old English Baron— Clara Reeve, The Old English Baron1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #5182
1778Evelina— Frances Burney1 chapter · Period Romance · public domain
1790A Sicilian Romance— Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #7371
1791The Romance of the Forest— Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #64701
1794Caleb Williams— William Godwin, Caleb Williams1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #11323
1796The Monk— Matthew Gregory Lewis1 chapter · Gothic · public domain
1797The Italian— Ann Radcliffe, The Italian1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #74643
1800Castle Rackrent— Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1424
1801Belinda— Maria Edgeworth, Belinda1 chapter · Comedy · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #9455
1806The Wild Irish Girl— Sydney Owenson (Lady Sydney Morgan), The Wild Irish Girl1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #54683
1812The Absentee— Maria Edgeworth1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1473
1813Pride and Prejudice— Jane Austen95 chapters · Period Romance · public domain; Project Gutenberg #1342
1814Mansfield Park— Jane Austen, Mansfield Park1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English original
1814Waverley— Walter Scott, Waverley1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #2034
1815Emma— Jane Austen1 chapter · Period Romance · public domain
1815Guy Mannering— Walter Scott, Guy Mannering1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #5999
1816Old Mortality— Walter Scott, Old Mortality1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #6941
1816The Antiquary— Walter Scott, The Antiquary1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #7005
1817Persuasion— Jane Austen74 chapters · Period Romance · public domain; Project Gutenberg #105
1817Northanger Abbey— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English original
1818Frankenstein— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley64 chapters · Gothic · public domain; Project Gutenberg #41445
1818The Heart of Mid-Lothian— Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #6944
1819Ivanhoe— Walter Scott1 chapter · Adventure · public domain
1820Melmoth the Wanderer— Charles Robert Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #53685-53688
1823Valperga— Mary Shelley, Valperga1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #63337-63339
1826The Last of the Mohicans— James Fenimore Cooper1 chapter · Adventure · public domain; Project Gutenberg #940
1826The Last Man— Mary Shelley, The Last Man1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #18247
1827The Betrothed— Alessandro Manzoni, The Betrothed1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain Italian original; newly written English adaptation
1827The Prairie— James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #6450
1827The Mummy!— Jane C. Loudon1 chapter · Sci-Fi & Gaming · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #56426
1829-1833Tom Cringle's Log— Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #7281
1830The King's Own— Frederick Marryat1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #21550
1830The Water-Witch— James Fenimore Cooper1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #12445
1830The Red and the Black— Stendhal, The Red and the Black1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain French original; newly written English adaptation
1831The Hunchback of Notre-Dame— Victor Hugo1 chapter · Gothic · Isabel F. Hapgood public-domain translation; Project Gutenberg #2610
1832Newton Forster— Frederick Marryat, Newton Forster1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; 1834 Baudry edition, Internet Archive 10747559bsb
1833-1834Peter Simple— Frederick Marryat1 chapter · Comedy · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #21577
1834The Last Days of Pompeii— Edward Bulwer-Lytton1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1565
1834Jacob Faithful— Frederick Marryat, Jacob Faithful1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #21549
1834Helen— Maria Edgeworth, Helen1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #8531
1834Rookwood— William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #23564
1835Pere Goriot— Honore de Balzac, Pere Goriot1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain French original; newly written English adaptation
1836-1837The Pickwick Papers— Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers1 chapter · Comedy · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #580
1836Mr. Midshipman Easy— Frederick Marryat1 chapter · Comedy · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #6629
1836Japhet in Search of a Father— Frederick Marryat, Japhet in Search of a Father1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; 1836 Saunders and Otley first edition, Internet Archive three-volume scan
1837-1839Oliver Twist— Charles Dickens1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain; Project Gutenberg #730
1838-1839Nicholas Nickleby— Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #967
1839The Phantom Ship— Frederick Marryat1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #12954
1839Jack Sheppard— William Harrison Ainsworth1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #16215
1840-1841The Old Curiosity Shop— Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #700
1840Poor Jack— Frederick Marryat, Poor Jack1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #14222
1840The Tower of London— William Harrison Ainsworth1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #49850
1841Barnaby Rudge— Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #917
1841Masterman Ready— Frederick Marryat, Masterman Ready1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1412
1841Sab— Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain Spanish text; newly written English adaptation
1841The Deerslayer— James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #3285
1842Zanoni— Edward Bulwer-Lytton1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #2664
1842The Two Admirals— James Fenimore Cooper, The Two Admirals1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #20475
1842Dead Souls— Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls1 chapter · Comedy · public-domain Russian original; newly written English adaptation
1843-1844Martin Chuzzlewit— Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #968
1844-1846The Count of Monte Cristo— Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet1 chapter · Adventure · public domain; Project Gutenberg #1184 English translation
1844The Three Musketeers— Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet1 chapter · Adventure · public domain; Project Gutenberg #1257 English translation
1844Miles Wallingford— James Fenimore Cooper, Miles Wallingford1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #11243
1845Sybil— Benjamin Disraeli1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #3760
1846-1848Dombey and Son— Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #821
1846The Privateersman— Frederick Marryat, The Privateersman1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #21576
1846Typee— Herman Melville1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #28656
1847Agnes Grey— Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original
1847Jane Eyre— Charlotte Brontë70 chapters · Gothic · public domain; Project Gutenberg #1260
1847The Children of the New Forest— Frederick Marryat, The Children of the New Forest1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #6471
1847Omoo— Herman Melville1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #4045
1847-1848Vanity Fair— William Makepeace Thackeray1 chapter · Money & Power · public domain
1853Villette— Charlotte Bronte, Villette1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original
1853The Heir of Redclyffe— Charlotte M. Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #2505
1853Ruth— Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain English original
1853Clotel— William Wells Brown1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #2046; newly written adaptation
1854Hard Times— Charles Dickens, Hard Times1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #786
1854Heartsease— Charlotte M. Yonge1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #2601
1854-55North and South— Elizabeth Gaskell52 chapters · Period Romance · public domain; Project Gutenberg #4276
1854The Lamplighter— Maria Susanna Cummins1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #31869
1854Hide and Seek— Wilkie Collins1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #7893
1855The Warden— Anthony Trollope, The Warden1 chapter · Comedy · public-domain English original
1855-1857Little Dorrit— Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #963
1856The Daisy Chain— Charlotte M. Yonge1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #3610
1856John Halifax, Gentleman— Dinah Mulock Craik, John Halifax Gentleman1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #2351
1857Barchester Towers— Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers1 chapter · Comedy · public-domain English original
1857The Professor— Charlotte Bronte, The Professor1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1028
1857The Garies and Their Friends— Frank J. Webb1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #11214; newly written adaptation
1857Madame Bovary— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain French original; newly written English adaptation
1857The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts— Margaret Oliphant, The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #55122
1857The Coral Island— R. M. Ballantyne1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #646
1857The Dead Secret— Wilkie Collins1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #43092
1858Doctor Thorne— Anthony Trollope1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #3166; newly written adaptation
1858Phantastes— George MacDonald1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Internet Archive 1858 first edition phantastesfaerie00macdiala
1858Martin Rattler— R. M. Ballantyne, Martin Rattler1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #13290
1859Beulah— Augusta Jane Evans1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #4246
1859A Tale of Two Cities— Charles Dickens1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain; Project Gutenberg #98
1859The Hidden Hand— E. D. E. N. Southworth1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #29866
1859Adam Bede— George Eliot, Adam Bede1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #507
1859The Minister's Wooing— Harriet Beecher Stowe1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #47958
1859Oblomov— Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain Russian original; newly written English adaptation
1859The World of Ice— R. M. Ballantyne, The World of Ice1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #21711
1860-1861Great Expectations— Charles Dickens1 chapter · Coming of Age · serial and book publication - public domain
1860The Mill on the Floss— George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original
1860The Woman in White— Wilkie Collins136 chapters · Gothic · public domain; Project Gutenberg #583
1861Framley Parsonage— Anthony Trollope1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #2860; newly written adaptation
1861East Lynne— Ellen Wood, East Lynne1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #3322
1861Silas Marner— George Eliot, Silas Marner1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original
1861The Gorilla Hunters— R. M. Ballantyne, The Gorilla Hunters1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #21736
1861The Red Eric— R. M. Ballantyne, The Red Eric1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #21714
1862-1864The Small House at Allington— Anthony Trollope1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain; Project Gutenberg #4599
1862The Morgesons— Elizabeth Stoddard1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #12347
1862-1863Romola— George Eliot, Romola1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #24020
1862Fathers and Sons— Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain Russian original; newly written English adaptation
1862The Last of the Mortimers— Margaret Oliphant, The Last of the Mortimers1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #51265
1862Lady Audley's Secret— Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #8954
1862Margret Howth— Rebecca Harding Davis1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #515
1862Les Miserables— Victor Hugo1 chapter · Social Protest · Isabel F. Hapgood 1887 public-domain translation; Project Gutenberg #135
1862-1863No Name— Wilkie Collins, No Name1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1438
1863-1864Ishmael; Or, In the Depths— E. D. E. N. Southworth1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #15774
1863Sylvia's Lovers— Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English original
1863The House by the Church-Yard— Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-Yard1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #17769
1864-1865Can You Forgive Her?— Anthony Trollope1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #19500; newly written adaptation
1864Rajmohan's Wife— Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain original English text
1866St. Elmo— Augusta Jane Evans1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #4553
1866Crime and Punishment— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain Russian original; newly written English adaptation
1866Felix Holt, the Radical— George Eliot, Felix Holt, the Radical1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #40882
1866Miss Marjoribanks— Margaret Oliphant, Miss Marjoribanks1 chapter · Comedy · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #41286
1867-1868Phineas Finn— Anthony Trollope1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #18000; newly written adaptation
1867The Last Chronicle of Barset— Anthony Trollope1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #3045; newly written adaptation
1868The Gates Ajar— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #54230
1868-1869Little Women— Louisa May Alcott18 chapters · Coming of Age · public domain; Project Gutenberg #514
1868The Moonstone— Wilkie Collins42 chapters · Mystery · public domain in the United States only; Project Gutenberg #155 pinned text
1870Seven Brothers— Aleksis Kivi1 chapter · Coming of Age · Alex Matson 1929 public-domain translation
1870Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas— Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas1 chapter · Sci-Fi & Gaming · public-domain French original; newly written English adaptation
1870-1872For the Term of His Natural Life— Marcus Clarke1 chapter · Social Protest · serial; 1874-1875 revised book - public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #3424
1870The Three Brothers— Margaret Oliphant, The Three Brothers1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #58323
1870Kate Danton— May Agnes Fleming1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #19512
1870Man and Wife— Wilkie Collins1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1586
1871-1873The Eustace Diamonds— Anthony Trollope1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain; Project Gutenberg #7381
1871The Coming Race— Edward Bulwer-Lytton1 chapter · Sci-Fi & Gaming · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1951
1871-1872Middlemarch— George Eliot1 chapter · Literary Drama · public domain
1871At the Back of the North Wind— George MacDonald1 chapter · Young Readers · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #225
1871Lady Susan— Jane Austen27 chapters · Literary Drama · public domain; Project Gutenberg #946
1871Checkmate— Sheridan Le Fanu1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #38460
1871Desperate Remedies— Thomas Hardy1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #3044; newly written adaptation
1872The Princess and the Goblin— George MacDonald1 chapter · Young Readers · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #708
1872Carmilla— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu22 chapters · Gothic · public domain; Project Gutenberg #10007
1872Around the World in Eighty Days— Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain French original; newly written English adaptation
1872The Man with the Golden Touch— Mor Jokai1 chapter · Adventure · Agnes Hegan Kennard 1888 public-domain translation; Project Gutenberg #31409
1872Under the Greenwood Tree— Thomas Hardy1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #2662; newly written adaptation
1872Poor Miss Finch— Wilkie Collins1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #3632
1873Work: A Story of Experience— Louisa May Alcott1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #4770
1873The Gilded Age— Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #3178
1873A Pair of Blue Eyes— Thomas Hardy1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #224; newly written adaptation
1873The New Magdalen— Wilkie Collins1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1623
1874-1875The Way We Live Now— Anthony Trollope1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain; Project Gutenberg #5231
1874A Terrible Secret— May Agnes Fleming1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #7063
1874The Pirate City— R. M. Ballantyne1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #21692
1874Far from the Madding Crowd— Thomas Hardy1 chapter · Period Romance · public domain; Project Gutenberg #27
1875Roderick Hudson— Henry James1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #176
1875-1878Anna Karenina— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain Russian original; newly written English adaptation
1875The Law and the Lady— Wilkie Collins, The Law and the Lady1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1622
1876Dona Perfecta— Benito Perez Galdos, Dona Perfecta1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain Spanish original; newly written English adaptation
1876Daniel Deronda— George Eliot, Daniel Deronda1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original
1876Phoebe, Junior— Margaret Oliphant, Phoebe, Junior1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #28629
1876The Midnight Queen— May Agnes Fleming1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #2950
1876The Hand of Ethelberta— Thomas Hardy1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #3469; newly written adaptation
1877Black Beauty— Anna Sewell25 chapters · Young Readers · public domain; Project Gutenberg #271
1877The American— Henry James1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #177
1877Deephaven— Sarah Orne Jewett1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #15985
1877The Golden Dog— William Kirby1 chapter · Period Romance · revised 1897 public-domain edition; Project Gutenberg #2735
1878The Leavenworth Case— Anna Katharine Green1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #4047; newly written adaptation
1878The Return of the Native— Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English original
1878The Haunted Hotel— Wilkie Collins, The Haunted Hotel1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #170
1879A Beleaguered City— Margaret Oliphant, A Beleaguered City1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #11521
1880-1882Anne— Constance Fenimore Woolson1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #32707
1880Dr. Heidenhoff's Process— Edward Bellamy, Dr. Heidenhoff's Process1 chapter · Sci-Fi & Gaming · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #7052
1880The Brothers Karamazov— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain Russian original; newly written English adaptation
1880Washington Square— Henry James1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1880Niels Lyhne— J. P. Jacobsen1 chapter · Coming of Age · Hanna Astrup Larsen 1919 public-domain translation; Project Gutenberg #55389
1880-1881Heidi— Johanna Spyri, Heidi1 chapter · Young Readers · public-domain German original; newly written English adaptation
1880Across the Zodiac— Percy Greg1 chapter · Sci-Fi & Gaming · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #10165
1880The Trumpet-Major— Thomas Hardy1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #2864; newly written adaptation
1881A Laodicean— Thomas Hardy1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #3258; newly written adaptation
1881The Black Robe— Wilkie Collins1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1587
1882-1883Robbery Under Arms— Thomas Alexander Browne (Rolf Boldrewood)1 chapter · Adventure · serial; 1888 book edition - public domain; Project Gutenberg #1198
1882Two on a Tower— Thomas Hardy1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #3146; newly written adaptation
1883For the Major— Constance Fenimore Woolson1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #38792
1883The Princess and Curdie— George MacDonald1 chapter · Young Readers · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #709
1883The Story of an African Farm— Olive Schreiner1 chapter · Coming of Age · public domain; Project Gutenberg #1441
1883Treasure Island— Robert Louis Stevenson39 chapters · Adventure · public domain; Project Gutenberg #120
1884-1886East Angels— Constance Fenimore Woolson1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #33143
1884Miss Ludington's Sister— Edward Bellamy, Miss Ludington's Sister1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #6903
1884Sir Tom— Margaret Oliphant, Sir Tom1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #30692
1884Adventures of Huckleberry Finn— Mark Twain1 chapter · Adventure · British and 1885 American publication - public domain
1885Germinal— Emile Zola, Germinal1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain French original; newly written English adaptation
1885King Solomon's Mines— H. Rider Haggard1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #2166
1885The Rise of Silas Lapham— William Dean Howells1 chapter · Money & Power · public domain; Project Gutenberg #154
1886The Mark of Cain— Andrew Lang1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #21821
1886The Mystery of a Hansom Cab— Fergus Hume1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #4223; newly written adaptation
1886Little Lord Fauntleroy— Frances Hodgson Burnett1 chapter · Young Readers · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1886The Bostonians— Henry James1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #19717 (Vol. I) and #19718 (Vol. II)
1886The Princess Casamassima— Henry James1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #64599
1886A Romance of Two Worlds— Marie Corelli, A Romance of Two Worlds1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #4394
1886Vendetta— Marie Corelli, Vendetta1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #4360
1886Kidnapped— Robert Louis Stevenson42 chapters · Adventure · public domain; Project Gutenberg #421
1888Robert Elsmere— Mary Augusta Ward1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #8737
1888The Black Arrow— Robert Louis Stevenson1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1889Micah Clarke— Arthur Conan Doyle1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #9504; newly written adaptation
1889The Mystery of Cloomber— Arthur Conan Doyle1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1889Birds Without a Nest— Clorinda Matto de Turner1 chapter · Social Protest · J. G. H. 1904 public-domain translation
1889Jupiter Lights— Constance Fenimore Woolson1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #34282
1889Cleopatra— H. Rider Haggard1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #2769
1889Ardath— Marie Corelli, Ardath1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #5114
1889The Master of Ballantrae— Robert Louis Stevenson1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1889The Legacy of Cain— Wilkie Collins1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1975
1889The House of the Wolfings— William Morris1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #2885
1889The Roots of the Mountains— William Morris1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #6050
1890The World's Desire— Andrew Lang and H. Rider Haggard, The World's Desire1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #2763
1890The Sign of the Four— Arthur Conan Doyle1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1890The Snake's Pass— Bram Stoker, The Snake's Pass1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #68966
1890The Tragic Muse— Henry James1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #20085
1891Wynema: A Child of the Forest— S. Alice Callahan1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain English original; photocopy-based original-text transcription, UIC/Oklahoma Historical Society
1891Gosta Berling's Saga— Selma Lagerlof, Gosta Berling's Saga1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain Swedish original; newly written English adaptation
1894The Story of a Modern Woman— Ella Hepworth Dixon, The Story of a Modern Woman1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; 1894 Cassell edition, Internet Archive storyamodernwom00dixogoog
1894-1895Trilby— George du Maurier1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #39858
1894The People of the Mist— H. Rider Haggard1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #6769
1894A Journey in Other Worlds— John Jacob Astor IV1 chapter · Sci-Fi & Gaming · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1607
1894Marcella— Mary Augusta Ward1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #13728
1894The Daughters of Danaus— Mona Caird, The Daughters of Danaus1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #21858
1894A Daughter of To-Day— Sara Jeannette Duncan1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #14490
1894The Story of Sonny Sahib— Sara Jeannette Duncan1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #4547
1894The Wood Beyond the World— William Morris1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #3055
1895The Three Impostors— Arthur Machen1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1896An Outcast of the Islands— Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #638
1896The Murder of Delicia— Marie Corelli1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #53097
1896Sir George Tressady— Mary Augusta Ward1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #9633 and #9634
1896The Country of the Pointed Firs— Sarah Orne Jewett1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #367
1896The Well at the World's End— William Morris1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #169
1897Uncle Bernac— Arthur Conan Doyle1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #10581
1897Dracula - Season One— Bram Stoker36 chapters · Gothic · public domain; Project Gutenberg #345
1897Dracula - Season Three— Bram Stoker62 chapters · Gothic · public domain; Project Gutenberg #345
1897Dracula - Season Two— Bram Stoker72 chapters · Gothic · public domain; Project Gutenberg #345
1897The Invisible Man— H. G. Wells1 chapter · Sci-Fi & Gaming · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #5230
1897The Spoils of Poynton— Henry James1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #33325
1897What Maisie Knew— Henry James1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #7118
1897Ziska— Marie Corelli1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #5079
1897Frances Waldeaux— Rebecca Harding Davis1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #335
1897The Beetle— Richard Marsh1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #5164
1897The Crime and the Criminal— Richard Marsh1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #40348
1897The Beth Book— Sarah Grand1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #28088
1897The Well-Beloved— Thomas Hardy1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #3326; newly written adaptation
1897The Water of the Wondrous Isles— William Morris1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #8778
1898The Great Stone of Sardis— Frank R. Stockton1 chapter · Sci-Fi & Gaming · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #6127
1898The Turn of the Screw— Henry James32 chapters · Gothic · public domain; Project Gutenberg #209
1898Helbeck of Bannisdale— Mary Augusta Ward1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #9441 and #9442
1898The Uncalled— Paul Laurence Dunbar1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #25171
1898The Datchet Diamonds— Richard Marsh1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #40353
1898A Voyage of Consolation— Sara Jeannette Duncan1 chapter · Comedy · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #15966
1899The Conjure Woman— Charles W. Chesnutt42 chapters · Literary Drama · public domain; Project Gutenberg #11666
1899Dead Men Tell No Tales— E. W. Hornung1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1703
1899McTeague— Frank Norris1 chapter · Literary Drama · public domain; Project Gutenberg #165
1899Pharos, the Egyptian— Guy Boothby1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #33610
1899The Red Rat's Daughter— Guy Boothby1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #33004
1899When the Sleeper Wakes— H. G. Wells1 chapter · Sci-Fi & Gaming · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #775
1899The Awkward Age— Henry James1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #7433
1899The Awakening— Kate Chopin42 chapters · Literary Drama · public domain; Project Gutenberg #160
1899The Mormon Prophet— Lily Dougall1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #17279
1899The Path of a Star— Sara Jeannette Duncan1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #5102
1899Imperium in Imperio— Sutton E. Griggs1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #15454
1900The House Behind the Cedars— Charles W. Chesnutt1 chapter · Literary Drama · public domain; Project Gutenberg #472
1900Peccavi— E. W. Hornung1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #36115
1900-1901A Honeymoon in Space— George Griffith1 chapter · Sci-Fi & Gaming · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #19476
1900Lord Jim— Joseph Conrad1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1900The Wonderful Wizard of Oz— L. Frank Baum91 chapters · Adventure · public domain; Project Gutenberg #43936
1900Eleanor— Mary Augusta Ward1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #9087
1900Contending Forces— Pauline E. Hopkins1 chapter · Social Protest · first edition - public-domain English original; Internet Archive contending-forces
1900Sister Carrie— Theodore Dreiser1 chapter · Money & Power · public domain; Project Gutenberg #233
1901-1902The Hound of the Baskervilles— Arthur Conan Doyle26 chapters · Mystery · public domain; Project Gutenberg #2852
1901-1902The Shadow of the Rope— E. W. Hornung1 chapter · Mystery · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #12590
1901The Octopus— Frank Norris1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #268
1901The First Men in the Moon— H. G. Wells68 chapters · Sci-Fi & Gaming · public domain in the United States; Project Gutenberg #1013
1901The Master Key— L. Frank Baum1 chapter · Sci-Fi & Gaming · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #436
1901The Purple Cloud— M. P. Shiel1 chapter · Sci-Fi & Gaming · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1901My Brilliant Career— Miles Franklin1 chapter · Coming of Age · public domain; Project Gutenberg #11620
1902The Grand Babylon Hotel— Arnold Bennett1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #2813
1902The Mystery of the Sea— Bram Stoker, The Mystery of the Sea1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #42455
1902Five Children and It— E. Nesbit1 chapter · Young Readers · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #778
1902The Valley of Decision— Edith Wharton1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #4327
1902The Sea Lady— H. G. Wells, The Sea Lady1 chapter · Comedy · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #35920
1902The Wings of the Dove— Henry James1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1902The Cruise of the Dazzler— Jack London1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #11051
1902The Sport of the Gods— Paul Laurence Dunbar1 chapter · Social Protest · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #17854; newly written adaptation
1902-1903Of One Blood— Pauline E. Hopkins1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #69255
1903The Jewel of Seven Stars— Bram Stoker1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1903The Riddle of the Sands— Erskine Childers266 chapters · Adventure · public domain; Project Gutenberg #2360
1903The Pit— Frank Norris1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #4382
1903The Ambassadors— Henry James1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #432
1903Such Is Life— Joseph Furphy1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #3470
1903The Enchanted Island of Yew— L. Frank Baum, The Enchanted Island of Yew1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #518
1903-1907The Travels of Lao Can— Liu E1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain Chinese text; newly written English adaptation
1904The Phoenix and the Carpet— E. Nesbit1 chapter · Young Readers · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #836
1904The Napoleon of Notting Hill— G. K. Chesterton1 chapter · Comedy · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #20058
1904The Food of the Gods— H. G. Wells, The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth1 chapter · Sci-Fi & Gaming · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #11696
1904The Golden Bowl— Henry James1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #4264
1904The Sea-Wolf— Jack London20 chapters · Adventure · public domain; Project Gutenberg #1074
1904Nostromo— Joseph Conrad1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1904The Late Mattia Pascal— Luigi Pirandello, The Late Mattia Pascal1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain Italian original; newly written English adaptation
1904The Imperialist— Sara Jeannette Duncan1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #5301
1916Greenmantle— John Buchan1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #559
1916The Home and the World— Rabindranath Tagore1 chapter · Social Protest · Surendranath Tagore 1919 public-domain translation; Project Gutenberg #7166
1917Summer— Edith Wharton1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #166
1917Australia Felix— Henry Handel Richardson1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #3832
1917The Shadow-Line— Joseph Conrad1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1917Gone to Earth— Mary Webb1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #7055
1918My Antonia— Willa Cather1 chapter · Coming of Age · public domain; Project Gutenberg #242
1919When the World Shook— H. Rider Haggard, When the World Shook1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1368
1919Mr Standfast— John Buchan1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #560
1919Mary Olivier— May Sinclair1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #9366
1919Night and Day— Virginia Woolf1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1922Captain Blood— Rafael Sabatini1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #1965
1922Jacob's Room— Virginia Woolf1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1923Riceyman Steps— Arnold Bennett1 chapter · Money & Power · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #58666
1923Midwinter— John Buchan1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #59178
1923The Rover— Joseph Conrad, The Rover1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #59142
1923Emily of New Moon— L. M. Montgomery1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1923The Inimitable Jeeves— P. G. Wodehouse61 chapters · Comedy · public domain; Project Gutenberg #59254
1924The Three Hostages— John Buchan1 chapter · Mystery · first edition - public-domain English original; Internet Archive threehostages00john
1924Precious Bane— Mary Webb1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #78542
1924The Unlit Lamp— Radclyffe Hall, The Unlit Lamp1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #69137
1925The Great Gatsby— F. Scott Fitzgerald49 chapters · Literary Drama · public domain; Project Gutenberg #64317
1925An American Tragedy— Theodore Dreiser1 chapter · Money & Power · public domain in the United States; Project Gutenberg #75181
1925Mrs Dalloway— Virginia Woolf1 chapter · Literary Drama · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1926The Blue Castle— L. M. Montgomery45 chapters · Period Romance · public domain; Project Gutenberg #67979
1926Bellarion the Fortunate— Rafael Sabatini1 chapter · Adventure · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg #68411
1927Witch Wood— John Buchan1 chapter · Gothic · public-domain English original; Project Gutenberg Canada buchanj-witchwood, 1929 present-form text
1927Cogewea, the Half-Blood— Mourning Dove, edited by Lucullus V. McWhorter1 chapter · Period Romance · public-domain English original; HathiTrust 006498572
1927To the Lighthouse— Virginia Woolf1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1928Home to Harlem— Claude McKay1 chapter · Literary Drama · public domain in the United States; 1928 first edition
1928The Well of Loneliness— Radclyffe Hall1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English text; Project Gutenberg #73042
1928Orlando— Virginia Woolf1 chapter · Coming of Age · public-domain English text; newly written adaptation
1929The Maracot Deep— Arthur Conan Doyle1 chapter · Sci-Fi & Gaming · public-domain English original; 1929 scan, Google Books IfY0AAAAMAAJ
1929The White Witch of Rosehall— Herbert G. de Lisser1 chapter · Gothic · public domain in the United States; 1929 first edition
1929Passing— Nella Larsen18 chapters · Literary Drama · public domain in the United States only; Standard Ebooks pinned text
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