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18 readable classics, free to read in Foxing.

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literary-fictionmysteryadventurefantasydramaromancescience-fictionchildrenbiographyhistorical-fictionphilosophypoetryshort-storieshumorhorrorFrankenstein's monster (Fictitious character) -- FictionFrankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) -- FictionGothic fiction

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Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim

Elizabeth and Her German Garden

Elizabeth von Arnim · 1898

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad · 1899

Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Peter Kropotkin

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

Peter Kropotkin · 1899

Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy

G. K. Chesterton · 1874

Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Representative Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1850

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William Craft

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

William Craft · 1860

The Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk by Black Hawk

The Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk

Black Hawk · 1882

The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford by Mark Rutherford

The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford

Mark Rutherford · 1881

The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Blithedale Romance

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1852

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

Diogenes Laërtius · 1853

The Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius

The Lives of the Caesars

Suetonius · 1851

The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

The Rise of Silas Lapham

William Dean Howells · 1884

The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt

The Rough Riders

Theodore Roosevelt · 1894

The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Thorstein Veblen · 1899

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Twelve Years a Slave

Solomon Northup · 1853

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Villette

Charlotte Brontë · 1853

Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton

Wild Animals I Have Known

Ernest Thompson Seton · 1898

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Mary Seacole · 1857