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# Classic novels you can read free online

Eleven public-domain classics, beautifully formatted by Standard Ebooks. Free, no account. Prompt to make your own: "Recommend classic novels that are free to read online, with a one-line reason to read each, and save them to onelink."

- [Frankenstein](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/mary-shelley/frankenstein) — Start here. Shorter and sadder than the films.
- [Dracula](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/bram-stoker/dracula) — Told in letters and diaries. Read after dark.
- [Pride and Prejudice](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice) — Funnier than you were told at school.
- [The Hound of the Baskervilles](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-conan-doyle/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles) — Holmes on a foggy moor.
- [The Picture of Dorian Gray](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/oscar-wilde/the-picture-of-dorian-gray) — Wilde at his most quotable.
- [Jane Eyre](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre) — A heroine who says no.
- [Wuthering Heights](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights) — Everyone in it is awful. That's the fun.
- [Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-louis-stevenson/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde) — One evening, one sitting.
- [The Time Machine](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h-g-wells/the-time-machine) — Short, strange, and still ahead of its time.
- [The Turn of the Screw](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/henry-james/the-turn-of-the-screw) — A ghost story that never quite tells you.
- [Edgar Allan Poe: short fiction](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fiction) — The Tell-Tale Heart and friends, one story a night.

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