Browse 2,780 Authors

Browse 2,780 classic authors on Textopian — Novelists, Short Story Writers and Essayists. Free full texts, biographies, and every work we hold for each

2,780 authors on Textopian

The shape of the library

Forms: Novelists (1,218), Short Story Writers (495), Essayists (292), Essayists (189)

Languages: English (2,352), Spanish (586), French (14), Italian (11)

Places: United States (896), Britain & Ireland (567), Australia (86), France (86)

Centuries: 19th century (1,413), 20th century (410), 18th century (211), 16th century (32)

Top 100 authors by works

• Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) · 1031 works
• Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) · 888 works
• Madison Cawein · 756 works
• James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) · 733 works
• Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) · 700 works
• Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) · 699 works
• Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) · 697 works
• Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) · 595 works
• Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) · 593 works
• Esopo (-620–-564) · 560 works
• Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) · 559 works
• Robert Burns · 557 works
• George MacDonald (1824–1905) · 552 works
• John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) · 549 works
• Alice Meynell (1847–1922) · 498 works
• Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) · 487 works
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) · 480 works
• Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) · 476 works
• G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936) · 474 works
• O. Henry (1862–1910) · 467 works
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) · 460 works
• Eugene Field (1850–1895) · 455 works
• Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) · 438 works
• Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) · 405 works
• Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) · 394 works
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) · 390 works
• Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm · 384 works
• Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) · 358 works
• Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) · 351 works
• Henry Lawson (1867–1922) · 350 works
• John Newton (1725–1807) · 338 works
• William Cowper (1731–1800) · 338 works
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 336 works
• Ring Lardner (1885–1933) · 334 works
• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832) · 328 works
• D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) · 327 works
• James McIntyre · 318 works
• Bliss Carman (1861–1929) · 315 works
• Percy Bysshe Shelley · 307 works
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) · 305 works
• Gilbert Parker (1862–1932) · 293 works
• Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) · 291 works
• Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) · 280 works
• Andrew Barton Paterson (1864–1941) · 268 works
• Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) · 266 works
• Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) · 263 works
• Mark Twain (1835–1910) · 260 works
• Lord Byron (1788–1824) · 247 works
• Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950) · 245 works
• Jean de La Fontaine · 244 works
• Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) · 234 works
• W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) · 232 works
• Jorge Mario Bergoglio · 226 works
• Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) · 225 works
• Rosario Castellanos (1925–1974) · 222 works
• Félix María Samaniego (1745–1801) · 218 works
• Langston Hughes (1901–1967) · 216 works
• Christina Georgina Rossetti · 214 works
• Oliver Herford (1863–1935) · 214 works
• Robert Browning (1812–1889) · 214 works
• William Dean Howells (1837–1920) · 212 works
• Frank R. Stockton (1834–1902) · 210 works
• Georgia Douglas Johnson · 205 works
• Edward Bulwer-lytton (1803–1873) · 204 works
• Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902–1987) · 197 works
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870) · 194 works
• James Baldwin (1924–1987) · 191 works
• Robert Graves (1895–1985) · 191 works
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) · 185 works
• Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) · 185 works
• Helen Hay Whitney (1876–1944) · 182 works
• Ruth Collie (1888–1936) · 180 works
• Ramón López Velarde (1888–1921) · 177 works
• Rafael Barrett (1876–1910) · 176 works
• Jack London (1876–1916) · 175 works
• John Donne (1572–1631) · 174 works
• George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) · 173 works
• Harry Graham (1874–1936) · 173 works
• Antonio Machado (1875–1939) · 170 works
• Edgar Wallace (1875–1932) · 168 works
• Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821–1867) · 165 works
• Pu Songling · 165 works
• Anonymous · 163 works
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) · 161 works
• Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) · 161 works
• Salvador Díaz Mirón (1853–1928) · 158 works
• Franklin P. Adams (1881–1960) · 157 works
• W. W. Jacobs (1863–1943) · 156 works
• Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) · 155 works
• Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) · 153 works
• L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) · 150 works
• Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) · 150 works
• David Cory (1872–1966) · 147 works
• Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) · 147 works
• P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) · 146 works
• Hector Hugh Munro · 144 works
• Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937) · 144 works
• Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934) · 142 works
• Herman Melville (1819–1891) · 142 works
• Saki (1870–1916) · 142 works