Victorian Literature

397 public-domain books first published between 1837–1901, free to read online in the BingeReaders reader. Browse every period, by genre, or the whole library.

• A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales — Unknown
• A Child's Garden of Verses — Robert Louis Stevenson
• A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
• A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas — Charles Dickens
• A Christmas Greeting: A Series of Stories — H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
• A Cousin's Conspiracy; Or, A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance — Horatio, Jr. Alger
• A Doll's House — Henrik Ibsen
• A Double Story — George MacDonald
• A Garland for Girls — Louisa May Alcott
• A Girl of the Commune — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• A History of Nursery Rhymes — Percy B. Green
• A House of Pomegranates — Oscar Wilde
• A Jolly Fellowship — Frank R. Stockton
• A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• A Little Country Girl — Susan Coolidge
• A March on London: Being a Story of Wat Tyler's Insurrection — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• A Modern Cinderella; Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories — Louisa May Alcott
• A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children — E. Louise (Emma Louise) Smythe
• A Study in Scarlet — Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens
• Across India; Or, Live Boys in the Far East — Oliver Optic
• Adventures of a Brownie as Told to my Child — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
• Adventures of a Young Naturalist — Lucien Biart
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
• Aesop's Fables, Volume 01 (Fables 1-25) — Aesop
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll
• Alice's Adventures Under Ground: Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" — Lewis Carroll
• All Adrift; Or, The Goldwing Club — Oliver Optic
• Among Malay Pirates: a Tale of Adventure and Peril — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• An Old-Fashioned Girl — Louisa May Alcott
• Andersen's Fairy Tales — H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
• Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals — R., Mrs. Lee
• Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
• Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules Verne
• At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• At Agincourt — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• At the Back of the North Wind — George MacDonald
• At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• Aunt Affable's Story of Old Mother Bantry and Her Cat — Anonymous
• Aunt Friendly's Picture Book — Sarah S. Baker
• Aunt Jo's scrap bag, Volume 1: My boys, etc. — Louisa May Alcott
• Aunt Jo's scrap bag, Volume 2: Shawl-straps — Louisa May Alcott
• Aunt Jo's scrap-bag, Volume 5: Jimmy's cruise in the Pinafore, etc. — Louisa May Alcott
• Aunt Kitty's Stories — Various
• Aunt Madge's Story — Sophie May
• Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief — James Fenimore Cooper
• Ben's Nugget; Or, A Boy's Search For Fortune — Horatio, Jr. Alger
• Beric the Briton: a Story of the Roman Invasion — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• Big People and Little People of Other Lands — Edward R. (Edward Richard) Shaw
• Birds' Christmas Carol — Kate Douglas Wiggin
• Black Beauty, Young Folks' Edition — Anna Sewell
• Black Beauty: The autobiography of a horse — Anna Sewell
• Bleak House — Charles Dickens
• Blown to Bits; or, The Lonely Man of Rakata — R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
• Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• Bound to Rise; Or, Up the Ladder — Horatio, Jr. Alger
• Breaking Away; or, The Fortunes of a Student — Oliver Optic
• Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts — Frank R. Stockton
• By Conduct and Courage: A Story of the Days of Nelson — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• By Right of Conquest; Or, With Cortez in Mexico — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• Caps and Capers: A Story of Boarding-School Life — Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson
• Cast Upon the Breakers — Horatio, Jr. Alger
• Charlie to the Rescue — R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
• Chenodia: Or, the Classical Mother Goose — Jacob Bigelow
• Chester Rand; or, The New Path to Fortune — Horatio, Jr. Alger
• Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories — Matilda Chaplin Ayrton
• Children's Books and Their Illustrators — Gleeson White
• Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories: A Book for Bairns and Big Folk — Robert Ford
• Claribel: or, Rest at last — Lucy Ellen Guernsey
• Clover — Susan Coolidge
• Colonel Thorndyke's Secret — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• Cornelli — Johanna Spyri
• Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Cross Purposes and The Shadows — George MacDonald
• Daisy — Susan Warner
• Daisy Miller — Henry James
• Dan, the Newsboy — Horatio, Jr. Alger
• David Copperfield — Charles Dickens
• Digging for Gold: Adventures in California — R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
• Dikes and Ditches; Or, Young America in Holland and Belgium — Oliver Optic
• Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune — Horatio, Jr. Alger
• Down the River; Or, Buck Bradford and His Tyrants — Oliver Optic
• Dracula — Bram Stoker
• Dream Days — Kenneth Grahame
• Driven from Home; Or, Carl Crawford's Experience — Horatio, Jr. Alger
• East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North — Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
• Eight Cousins — Louisa May Alcott
• Elsie Dinsmore — Martha Finley
• Erick and Sally — Johanna Spyri
• Erling the Bold — R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
• Eyebright: A Story — Susan Coolidge
• Fables — Robert Louis Stevenson
• Fables for the Frivolous — Guy Wetmore Carryl
• Fairy Book — Sophie May
• Fairy Circles: Tales and Legends of Giants, Dwarfs, Fairies, Water-Sprites, and Hobgoblins — Villamaria
• Fairy dreams: or, Wanderings in Elf-land — Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin
• Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland — Thomas Crofton Croker
• Fairy Realm: A Collection of the Favourite Old Tales Told in Verse — Tom Hood
• Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen — H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
• Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen — Alexander Chodzko
• Fairy Tales, Their Origin and Meaning; With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland — John Thackray Bunce
• Fame and Fortune; or, The Progress of Richard Hunter — Horatio, Jr. Alger
• Fast in the Ice: Adventures in the Polar Regions — R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
• Five Little Peppers Grown Up — Margaret Sidney
• Flower Fables — Louisa May Alcott
• For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics — Oliver Optic
• Frank's Campaign; Or, The Farm and the Camp — Horatio, Jr. Alger
• Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication — R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
• Friends, though divided: A Tale of the Civil War — G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
• From Canal Boy to President; Or, the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield — Horatio, Jr. Alger
• From Farm to Fortune; or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience — Horatio, Jr. Alger
• Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader: A Tale of the Pacific — R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
• Golden Age — Kenneth Grahame
• Granny's wonderful chair & its tales of fairy times — Frances Browne
• Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
• Grimm Tales Made Gay — Guy Wetmore Carryl
• Grimm's Fairy Stories — Jacob Grimm