Books
Public-domain books: classic literature, philosophy, history and foundational documents, together with the sacred texts of the world's traditions — the library's Sacred Texts shelf is drawn from this collection. Read in the browser, or download the plain text where text is present.
This collection holds 81,631 of the library's 2,557,923 catalog records. Counted 2026-11-10; the catalog grows as new holdings are added.
Works in this collection
A selection of real works from the Books collection — the selection rotates daily. Every link opens that work's own catalog page; the full collection is searchable in the library.
- A Boy's Will — Robert Frost (1913)
- A Discourse Concerning Bodies in Water — Galileo Galilei (Thomas Salusbury, trans.) (1661)
- Caesar: A Sketch — James Anthony Froude (1879)
- Chronicles of England, France, Spain, Vol. II — Jean Froissart (Thomas Johnes, trans.) (1400)
- Collectio Geniturarum — John Gadbury (1662)
- Der fossile Mensch aus dem Neanderthal und sein Verhältniss zum Alter des Menschengeschlechts — Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1865)
- Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences — Galileo Galilei (Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio, trans.) (1914)
- Finger Prints — Francis Galton (1892)
- Fons vitae ex arabico in latinum translatus ab Iohanne Hispano et Dominico Gundissalino — Ibn Gabirol (Avicebron); John of Spain and Dominicus Gundissalinus, trans.; Clemens Baeumker, ed. (1892)
- Frontinus and the Water Supply of the City of Rome — Sextus Julius Frontinus (Clemens Herschel, trans.) (100)
- Genethlialogia, or the Doctrine of Nativities — John Gadbury (1658)
- Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws and Consequences — Francis Galton (1869)
- History of England, Vol. 1 — James Anthony Froude (1858)
- History of England, Vol. 10 — James Anthony Froude (1865)
- History of England, Vol. 11 — James Anthony Froude (1865)
- History of England, Vol. 12 — James Anthony Froude (1865)
- History of England, Vol. 2 — James Anthony Froude (1856)
- History of England, Vol. 3 — James Anthony Froude (1870)
- History of England, Vol. 4 — James Anthony Froude (1858)
- History of England, Vol. 5 — James Anthony Froude (1860)
- History of England, Vol. 6 — James Anthony Froude (1860)
- History of England, Vol. 7 — James Anthony Froude (1863)
- History of England, Vol. 8 — James Anthony Froude (1856)
- History of England, Vol. 9 — James Anthony Froude (1856)
- In Chancery — John Galsworthy (1920)
- Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development — Francis Galton (1883)
- Mathematical Collections and Translations — Thomas Salusbury (trans. and ed.); Galileo Galilei et al. (1661)
- Mathematical Discourses Concerning Two New Sciences — Galileo Galilei (Thomas Salusbury, trans.) (1665)
- Mountain Interval — Robert Frost (1916)
- New Hampshire — Robert Frost (1923)
- North of Boston — Robert Frost (1914)
- On the Natural Faculties — Galen (Arthur J. Brock, trans.) (175)
- Sidereus Nuncius — Galileo Galilei (1653)
- Swan Song — John Galsworthy (1928)
- Systema Cosmicum (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems) — Galileo Galilei (Matthias Bernegger, trans.) (1663)
- The Challenge of the Klan — Stanley Frost (1924)
- The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 1 — James Anthony Froude (1872)
- The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 2 — James Anthony Froude (1872)
- The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 3 — James Anthony Froude (1872)
- The Institutes of Gaius — Gaius (James Muirhead, trans.) (1880)
- The Man of Property — John Galsworthy (1906)
- The Silver Spoon — John Galsworthy (1926)
- The Star in the West: A Critical Essay upon the Works of Aleister Crowley — J. F. C. Fuller (1907)
- The Stratagems and The Aqueducts of Rome — Frontinus (Charles E. Bennett and Mary B. McElwain, trans.) (100)
- The White Monkey — John Galsworthy (1924)
- To Let — John Galsworthy (1921)
- Trafalgar — Benito Pérez Galdós (1884)
- Woman in the Nineteenth Century — Margaret Fuller (1845)