The quiet shelf
Books & art
Famous books you can read free here, in large print or read aloud, a short poem, and a picture with room around it.
Read free classics
Famous books, in large print, read aloud if you like
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
Moby DickHerman Melville
FrankensteinMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll
The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare
DraculaBram Stoker
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson
MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot
A classic you can read free
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Jane Austen published Pride and Prejudice in 1813. Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy take most of the book to see each other plainly. You can read the whole novel free. This cover is the 1894 George Allen edition, drawn by Hugh Thomson.
Cover from the Open Library, cover id 9277716. London: George Allen, 1894, illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Text from Project Gutenberg.
A poem in the public domain
The Tyger
William Blake · 1794
William Blake, 1795. Public domain. British Museum copy, via Wikimedia Commons.
One picture
Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Open access (CC0).
Every picture on this shelf is free to show. The cover is from the Open Library. The poem is in the public domain. The painting is open access from the museum named under it.