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10,422 books, from the Greek classics to the dime novel, sorted into 36 shelves. Every one is out of copyright and free to read. Pick a shelf, then click any book to read it at Project Gutenberg or find old printed copies at the Internet Archive.
Illustrated editions7 books to page through
Classic American books in new illustrated editions, with pictures from the Snapshots of the Past archive. See all of them.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Henry Ketcham, 1901
346 pages · flip through it
On the Trail of Grant and Lee
Frederick Trevor Hill, 1911
234 pages · flip through it
Washington and His Comrades in Arms
George M. Wrong, 1921
210 pages · flip through it
Theodore Roosevelt
William Roscoe Thayer, 1919
369 pages · flip through it
The Railroad Builders
John Moody, 1919
190 pages · flip through it
Wonderful Balloon Ascents
Fulgence Marion, 1870
202 pages · flip through it
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa), 1918
152 pages · flip through itFiction
Fiction of the 1800s
1,578 booksFiction of the 1900s
674 booksFiction of the 1700s
164 booksFiction of the 1600s
13 booksFiction, various
400 booksAction and adventure
390 booksMystery and detective
504 booksGothic, horror and ghost stories
813 booksScience fiction
231 booksWesterns
193 booksPulp fiction
42 booksSatire and humor
142 booksChildren's and young readers
625 booksHistory, biography and the sea
Poetry and drama
Ideas, belief and learning
Greek and Roman classics
622 booksPhilosophy, economics and social science
285 booksPolitics and government
104 booksThe Enlightenment
75 booksReligion
494 booksAsia and the Middle East
213 booksThe occult and esoteric
59 booksFolklore and myth
107 booksScience
73 booksEducation and how-to
93 booksReference
40 booksEssays and criticism
352 booksNonfiction, various
142 booksEuropean literature
217 booksThis collection comes from a 2003 CD of 10,000 eBooks, made from Project Gutenberg texts.