24,137 Free Classic Stories and Poems

These stories are presented free to you in bite-size format. Read a page at a time, like a real book. Then bookmark the page where you leave off and return on your own schedule.

24137 titles currently available. The newest additions are below:

Click the header to sort by Author and Title

New Stories

Title	Author
John Mccrae: An Essay In Character	by Andrew Macphail
King Candaules	by Theophile Gautier
Blackbeard; Or, The Pirate Of Roanoke	by B. Barker
The Story Of Oello	by Edward Everett Hale
The Two Princes	by Edward Everett Hale
Stand And Wait	by Edward Everett Hale
Daily Bread	by Edward Everett Hale
Alice’s Christmas-Tree	by Edward Everett Hale
They Saw A Great Light	by Edward Everett Hale
Time And The Kings Of The Elements	by Alexander Chodsko
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse	by Beatrix Potter
The Same Christmas In Old England And New	by Edward Everett Hale
Christmas And Rome	by Edward Everett Hale
Love Is The Whole	by Edward Everett Hale
The Journey To The Sun And The Moon	by Alexander Chodsko
The Maid With Hair Of Gold	by Alexander Chodsko
The Grand Inquisitor	by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Sovereign Of The Mineral Kingdom	by Alexander Chodsko
The Sun Or The Three Golden Hairs Of The Old Man Vsevede	by Alexander Chodsko
The Twelve Months	by Alexander Chodsko
The History Of Prince Slugobyl Or The Invisible Knight	by Alexander Chodsko
The Broad Man, The Tall Man, And The Man With Eyes Of Flame	by Alexander Chodsko
Flying Carpet, Invisible Cap, Gold-Giving Ring, And Smiting Club	by Alexander Chodsko
The Dwarf With The Long Beard	by Alexander Chodsko
Tears Of Pearls	by Alexander Chodsko

Random Acts of Poetry

Title	Author
Palladium	by Matthew Arnold
To A Louse, On Seeing One On A Lady’s Bonnet, At Church	by Robert Burns
The Nightingale Unheard	by Josephine Preston Peabody
The Greater Love	by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Seeking Of The Waterfall	by John Greenleaf Whittier
Modesty	by John Kendrick Bangs
The Pilgrim	by Frederich Schiller
The Bees and the Flies	by Rudyard Kipling
On one who lived and died where he was born	by Thomas Hardy
What We All Think	by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Win’ That ‘blaws	by George MacDonald
Invitation To The Country	by George Meredith
Sonnet With The Compliments Of The Season	by G. K. Chesterton
A Testimony	by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The Exile	by Thomas Hood
Into The Golden Vessel Of Great Song	by Edna St Vincent Millay
The Young Glass-Stainer	by Thomas Hardy
The Chaplet	by William Makepeace Thackeray
Flowers And Stars	by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
The Vesper Hour	by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
The Matin-Song Of Friar Tuck	by Alfred Noyes

Recommended Essays

Title	Author
The Toy Theatre	by G. K. Chesterton
The Lover’s Heart	by Isaac Disraeli
Plays and Puritans	by Charles Kingsley
Knowledge Is Growth	by Arthur Brisbane
Introspection	by Eliot Gregory
Emerson And His Journals	by John Burroughs
Rambler 161 [The revolutions of a garret]	by Samuel Johnson
No. 150 [from The Spectator]	by Eustace Budgell
The Principle Of Evil	by Thomas De Quincey
Idler 074 [No. 74: Memory rarely deficient]	by Samuel Johnson
Uniforms For Women	by W. L. George
Authors And Publishers	by Israel Zangwill
The High Plains	by G. K. Chesterton
Quotation	by Isaac Disraeli
The Marbles Of Aegina	by Walter Pater
Of Judicature	by Francis Bacon
The Ex. Question	by Elbert Hubbard
A Problem In Ethics	by A. A. Milne

24137 titles currently available. The newest additions are below:

New Stories

Random Acts of Poetry

Recommended Essays

Recently Popular Stories

Search

Links