Collections — Curated Shelves of Classic Literature

Browse curated collections of free classic books on Textopian — The Bible, the Western canon, banned books, the great poets, and hundreds more thematic shelves from the public domain.

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• The Bible
• The Four Gospels
• The Torah: Five Books of Moses
• Psalms & the Wisdom Books
• The Prophets
• The Letters of Paul
• La Biblia en Español
• The Imitation of Christ
• Hymns & Devotion
• Eastern Wisdom
• Sermons & Sacred Prose
• Parables & Proverbs
• Genesis & the Origins of the World
• Revelation & the End of Days
• The Life of Jesus
• Faith & Doubt
• Angels, Demons & the Unseen
• The Psalter: 150 Psalms
• The Western Canon
• The Great Novels
• Jane Austen & the Marriage Plot
• The Brontë Sisters
• Dickens's London
• The American Renaissance
• The Modernists
• Shakespeare
• Mark Twain
• Oscar Wilde
• The Russian Masters
• Henry James & the Art of Fiction
• Masters of the Short Story
• The Comedy of Manners
• Conrad & the Sea
• Thomas Hardy's Wessex
• The Moral Novel
• The Perfect Novella
• Banned & Burned
• Books the Church Banned
• On Trial for Obscenity
• Dangerous Ideas
• Subversive Satire
• Machiavelli & the Art of Power
• Forbidden Desire
• Banned in Schools
• Voices They Tried to Silence
• Heresy & Blasphemy
• The New Woman
• Seditious & Revolutionary
• Darwin & the War on Science
• The Censored Poets
• Written in Exile
• The Most-Challenged Classics
• Books That Changed History
• The Ancient World
• Slavery & Abolition
• The American Experiment
• Great Speeches & Orations
• Empire & Its Discontents
• Chronicles & Kings
• France & Its Revolutions
• The Medieval World
• Eyewitness to War
• The History of Ideas
• Lost Civilizations
• The Age of Exploration
• The Victorian Age
• Rome: Empire & Eternity
• Greece: The First Thinkers
• Revolutions & Manifestos
• The American Frontier
• Great Letters
• The Machine Age
• The Examined Life
• The Stoics
• Plato & Socrates
• The Transcendentalists
• Nietzsche
• Political Philosophy
• The Art of Living
• Aphorisms & Fragments
• Skepticism & Doubt
• The Meaning of Life
• On Nature
• The Philosophy of Beauty
• Women & Philosophy
• Consolation
• The Good & the Just
• Freethought & Reason
• The Strategists
• Philosophy for Beginners
• The Great Poets
• Emily Dickinson
• Walt Whitman
• John Keats
• Lord Byron
• W. B. Yeats
• Robert Frost
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• The Sonnet
• Odes & Praise
• The Ballad
• The Epic
• Elegies & Grief
• Free Verse
• The Romantic Poets
• The Fireside Poets
• The Harlem Renaissance
• Modern American Poetry
• The Victorian Poets
• The Poetry of Nature
• Poems of the Sea
• The Poetry of Faith
• War Poetry
• Pablo Neruda
• Goethe
• Petrarch
• Dylan Thomas
• Poesía en Español
• The Greatest Love Stories
• Twenty Love Poems
• Doomed Lovers
• Love Poems
• Heartbreak
• Sonnets from the Portuguese
• Courtship & Comedy
• First Love
• Love Against the Odds
• Passion & Desire
• El Amor en Español
• The Marriage Novel
• Unrequited Love
• Love & War
• Wedding Readings
• The Gothic Tradition
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Ghost Stories
• Vampires & the Undead
• Lovecraft & Cosmic Horror
• Frankenstein & the Mad Scientist
• The Double & the Shadow
• Witches & the Occult
• Horror by Women
• Weird Tales
• The Haunted House
• Tales of Terror
• Victorian Nightmares
• The Supernatural
• Madness & the Unraveling Mind
• The Byronic Hero
• The Great Adventures
• Treasure & Pirates
• Jules Verne
• Castaways & Survival
• Jack London & the Wild
• Lost Worlds
• The Swashbucklers
• Tales of the Sea
• Explorers & Expeditions
• Kipling & the Jungle
• The Quest
• The Chase
• The Wild West
• Adventure for Young Readers
• Books That Explain the World
• Darwin & Evolution
• The Natural World
• The Birth of Science Fiction
• H. G. Wells
• Birds, Beasts & Insects
• The Cosmos & the Stars
• The Science of the Mind
• Invention & Progress
• Science & Wonder
• Once Upon a Time
• Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Hans Christian Andersen
• Alice in Wonderland
• The Land of Oz
• Aesop's Fables
• Fables & Fabulists
• E. Nesbit
• Peter Pan & Neverland
• Anne of Green Gables
• A Child's Garden of Verses
• Children's Poetry
• Talking Animals
• Coming of Age
• Bedtime Stories
• Pinocchio
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Nonsense & Wordplay
• The Classic Story Hour
• The Interior Life
• The Psychology of Dreams
• Diaries & Journals
• The Confession
• Solitude
• Stream of Consciousness
• The Divided Self
• Melancholy
• Know Thyself
• Memory & the Past
• Obsession
• On Happiness
• Books That Tried to Change the World
• Utopias & Dystopias
• The Rights of Man
• The Woman Question
• Race & Freedom
• Capital & Its Critics
• The Social Novel
• Anarchism & Revolution
• Civil Disobedience
• Education & the Young Mind
• The American Conscience
• Poverty & the City
• War & Peace
• The Reformers
• Gods & Heroes
• Homer: Iliad & Odyssey
• The Greek Myths
• Ovid's Metamorphoses
• The Arthurian Legend
• Norse Mythology
• Celtic & Irish Myth
• Legends & Tall Tales
• World Folklore
• The Hero’s Journey
• The Underworld
• Milton & Paradise Lost
• Dragons & Monsters
• The World's Great Plays
• Greek Tragedy
• Shakespeare: The Tragedies
• Shakespeare: The Comedies
• Ibsen & the Modern Drama
• Chekhov's Plays
• George Bernard Shaw
• Wilde on Stage
• Comedy of the Stage
• The History Play
• Verse Drama
• One-Act Plays
• The Art of the Essay
• Great Satire
• The Devil's Dictionary
• Comic Masters
• Wit & Epigram
• G. K. Chesterton
• The Familiar Essay
• American Humor
• Light Verse
• Table Talk
• The Comic Novel
• Montaigne & Bacon
• Saki & the Comic Tale
• The Great Detectives
• Sherlock Holmes
• The Birth of Detective Fiction
• Father Brown
• The Sensation Novel
• The Thriller
• Locked-Room Mysteries
• Golden-Age Whodunits
• Spies & Intrigue
• The Criminal Mind
• Mystery Short Stories
• Literature of the World
• Russian Literature
• French Literature
• German Literature
• Irish Literature
• American Literature
• British Literature
• Literatura en Español
• Italian Literature
• Scandinavian Literature
• Classics of the East
• World Short Stories
• El Siglo de Oro
• A Life in Full
• Great Autobiographies
• Slave Narratives
• Spiritual Autobiography
• Great Biographies
• The Self-Made Life
• Lives of the Poets & Artists
• Lives of Adventure
• Memoirs of War
• Letters of Great Writers
• Travel Writing
• The Turning Year
• Winter Reading
• Spring Awakening
• Summer Days
• Autumn & Harvest
• A Christmas Collection
• Ghost Stories for Christmas
• Halloween Reading
• The New Year
• The Nature Almanac
• Night & the Stars
• Dawn & Morning
• Rain & Storm
• A Poem a Day
• The Fireside Reader
• Sea & Shore
• William Blake
• William Wordsworth
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Sara Teasdale
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• The Metaphysical Poets
• The Pre-Raphaelites
• Narrative Poems
• The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
• The Decadents
• Herman Melville
• The American Short Story
• The Realist Novel
• The Coming-of-Age Novel
• The Condition of England
• The Renaissance
• The Enlightenment
• The American Civil War
• The Great War
• The Arabian Nights
• Indian Literature
• Greek & Roman Classics
• African American Classics
• The Classics in Translation
• Sir Walter Scott
• Robin Hood & Outlaws
• The Historical Adventure
• Animal Stories
• School Stories
• French Fairy Tales
• Flatland & Mathematical Fiction
• On Death
• Logic & Rhetoric
• Visions & Altered States
• Votes for Women
• The Muckrakers
• Freethinkers & Infidels
• Restoration Comedy
• The Problem Play
• Arsène Lupin
• The First Lady Detectives
• The Plague Narrative
• Folk Horror
• The Comic Sketch
• Portraits of Genius
• Women's Lives
• Short Reads
• The Sunday Anthology
• Candlelight Reading
• A Rainy-Day Reader
• Poe: The Poems
• The Georgian Poets
• The Picaresque
• Gulliver & Satirical Fiction
• Canadian Voices
• The Elizabethans
• Victorian Fantasy