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13 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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Before 18001800 to 18491850 to 18991900 to 19491950 and later

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Hudibras by Samuel Butler

Hudibras

Samuel Butler · 1662

King Lear by William Shakespeare

King Lear

William Shakespeare · 1608

Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth

Lyrical Ballads

William Wordsworth · 1798

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Macbeth

William Shakespeare · 1508

Metamorphoses by Ovid

Metamorphoses

Ovid · 1479

Olney Hymns by John Newton

Olney Hymns

John Newton · 1779

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Paradise Lost

John Milton · 1667

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

Phillis Wheatley · 1773

She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

She Stoops to Conquer

Oliver Goldsmith · 1773

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer · 1478

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser · 1590

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Samuel Johnson · 1759

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare · 1631