Thousands of free pdf classics of world literature pdf. Also books about classic literature. Arranged in subject collections. Novels in foreign languages translated. Audiobooks of the classics. World lit textbooks.
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- Classics of World Literature PDF – Various Countries
- Audiobooks – World Classics Books PDF
- Textbooks – Classic Literature PDF
- Topics – Classics of World Literature PDF
- Collections – World Classic Books PDF
- Fiction in Foreign Languages Translated to English
- Audiobooks in Foreign Languages – World Classic Books PDF
- Related Pages on Century Past
Classics of World Literature PDF – Various Countries
Literature from Selected Countries
American – Colonial and Revolutionary
Canada – Colonial and 19th Century
Audiobooks – World Classics Books PDF
Free Audiobooks at Internet Archive
Most works were published before 1928. Some of these collections contain both fiction and nonfiction.
Textbooks – Classic Literature PDF
British Literature I Anthology: From the Middle Ages to Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century
British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond – Classics of World Literature PDF
Robinson, Bonny and Getty, Laura
Univ of North Georgia 2018
These two anthologies contain samples of works by some 90 British writers, with biographies.
Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution
Kurant, Wendy
Univ of North Georgia 2018
Featuring sixty-nine authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the diverse voices in early American literature. Open Access textbook.
Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present
Berke, Amy, et al.
Univ of North Georgia 2015
A text that surveys key literary movements and the American authors associated with the movement. Topics include late romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and modern literature. Open Access textbook.
Compact Anthology of World Literature
Getty, Laura and Kwon, Kyounghye
Univ of North Georgia 2016
The emphasis in this anthology is on non-Western works. It is divided into sections on the ancient Middle East and Greece; China; India; and Rome.
World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650
Getty, Laura and Kwon, Kyounghye
Univ of North Georgia 2015
Sections of the text are divided by time period in three parts: the Ancient World, Middle Ages, and Renaissance, and then divided into chapters by location. It provides the best free texts available. Open Access textbook.
Compact Anthology of World Literature II
Turlington, Anita et al.
Univ System of Georgia 2022
This volume covers world literature from the seventeenth century to the present.
Topics – Classics of World Literature PDF
Literature Topics
Characters and characteristics in literature
Guardian List of 100 best Novels in English
Le Monde’s List of 100 Books of the Century
Collections – World Classic Books PDF
The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (Vols 1-20)
Wikipedia Article on the Harvard Classics, with Table of Contents
Eliot, Charles W., ed.
Collier & Son 1917
This collection of 20 volumes of great literature was a follow-on project to Harvard President Charles Elliot’s 50-volume collection of world fiction and non-fiction, entitled “The Harvard Classics”. You can find more info about both projects, with a Table of Contents for the fiction collection, at the Wikipedia article link. This also has links to more Wikipedia articles on the books contained in the collection.
Great Books of the Western World (Vols 1-54)
Great Books of the Western World Wikipedia Article – Western Classic Literature
Hutchins, Walter Maynard, ed.
Encyclopedia Britannica 1952
This collection of ‘Great Books’ was conceived in the 1940s as a way of putting the core books of western civilization, as understood by the editors, together in one place. You can read more about the history of this series at the Wikipedia article at the second link, which also contains the complete Table of Contents for the series.
Library of the World’s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern – Audio Version
Warner, Charles Dudley, eds
R.S. Peale 1897
“In the Library of the World’s Best Literature, the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds what they considered the best pieces of human writing, and compiled an ambitious collection of 45 volumes (with a 46th being an index-guide). Besides the selection and translation of a huge number of poems, letters, short stories and sections of books, the collection offers, before each chapter, a short essay about the author or subject in question. In many cases, chapters contemplate not one author, but certain groups of works, organized by nationality, subject or period; there is, thus, a chapter on Accadian-Babylonian literature, one on the Holy Grail, and one on Chansons, for example.
There are 10 volumes in this Librivox audio collection, each volume containing about 40 to 60 selections, recorded aloud by volunteers.
Fiction in Foreign Languages Translated to English
Fiction in Foreign Languages in Translation to English
Audiobooks in Foreign Languages – World Classic Books PDF
Free Audiobooks at Internet Archive in Foreign Languages
Most works were published before 1928. Most of these collections contain both fiction and nonfiction.
Stories Set in the Netherlands or in Dutch Language
Stories Set in France or in French Language
Stories Set in Germany or in German Language
Greek Language – Ancient – Books
Stories Set in Greece or in Greek Language