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Below are entries for about 40 of the most popular free audio classic books at the free book site Gutenberg, as listed in the autumn of 2022.
Each book has three links. The 1st link for each book opens the book’s page at Gutenberg.
The 2nd link is for the book’s page at Internet Archive, and usually contains many editions.
The 3rd link contains at least one audiobook version at the free audiobook site, Librivox.
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A Room with a View
Author: Forster, E. M.
Internet Archive
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Middlemarch – Free Novel Online
Author: Eliot, George
Internet Archive – Free Novel Online
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Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Author: Alcott, Louisa May
Internet Archive
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The Enchanted April
Author: Von Arnim, Elizabeth
Internet Archive
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The Blue Castle
Author: Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Internet Archive
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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale – Free Novel Online
Author: Melville, Herman
Internet Archive
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Author: Shakespeare, William
Internet Archive
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The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Author: Smollett, Tobias
Internet Archive
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Cranford – Free Novel Online
Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Internet Archive
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Author: Smollett, Tobias
Internet Archive
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The Adventures of Roderick Random – Free Novel Online
Author: Smollett, Tobias
Internet Archive
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History of Tom Jones, a Foundling – Free Novel Online
Author: Fielding, Henry
Internet Archive
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My Life — Volume 1
Author: Wagner, Richard
Internet Archive
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Twenty Years After – Free Novel Online
Author: Dumas, Alexandre
Internet Archive
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Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus – Free Novel Online
Author: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Internet Archive
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Pride and Prejudice
Author: Austen, Jane
Internet Archive
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The Scarlet Letter
Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Internet Archive
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Dracula – Free Novel Online
Author: Stoker, Bram
Internet Archive
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Free Novel Online
Author: Carroll, Lewis
Internet Archive
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
Internet Archive
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A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Dickens, Charles
Internet Archive
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Author: Irving, Washington
Internet Archive
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Internet Archive
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Wilde, Oscar
Internet Archive
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A Doll’s House : a Play
Author: Ibsen, Henrik
Internet Archive
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Free Novel Online
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Internet Archive
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A Modest Proposal
Author: Swift, Jonathan
Internet Archive
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A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Author: Dickens, Charles
Internet Archive
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The Great Gatsby
Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Internet Archive
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Great Expectations – Free Novel Online
Author: Dickens, Charles
Internet Archive
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Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Author: Grimm, Jacob and Grimm, Wilhelm
Internet Archive
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Metamorphosis
Author: Kafka, Franz
Internet Archive
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Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
Author: Bronte, Charlotte
Internet Archive
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The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
Author: Wilde, Oscar
Internet Archive
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Ulysses – Free Novel Online
Author: Joyce, James
Internet Archive
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Free Novel Online
Author: Twain, Mark
Internet Archive
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Crime and Punishment
Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Internet Archive
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The Prince – Free Novel Online
Author: Machiavelli, Niccolo
Internet Archive
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The Souls of Black Folk
Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
Internet Archive
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Author: Douglass, Frederick
Internet Archive
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War and Peace
Author: Tolstoy, Leo
Internet Archive
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The Count of Monte Cristo – Free Novel Online
Author: Dumas, Alexandre
Internet Archive
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