Laxmi Bachanalaya
Legally available public-domain books and openly licensed reading materials.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Oscar Wilde
Rudyard Kipling
Katherine Mansfield
Guy de Maupassant
Heinrich Hoffmann
O. Henry
Saki
Lafcadio Hearn
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ambrose Bierce
Edgar Allan Poe
Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
Giovanni Boccaccio
H. C. Andersen
G. K. Chesterton
Aesop
Mark Twain
Arthur Conan Doyle
Various
Songling Pu
Washington Irving
Yei Theodora Ozaki
Stephen Crane
graf Leo Tolstoy
These books are free to read. Each is in the public domain in the United States; check your own country's rules before you copy or share one.