A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
1874 · 1894 edition
376 pages
Free art & artists books
Books about art and artists take you into studios and galleries. Painters and sculptors struggle for recognition, forgers fool the experts and a single painting carries a story across centuries. Novels, biographies and art-world mysteries here are rich in color and passion. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Published 1898
230 pages
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Published 1916
330 pages
Oliver Twist
Robert Louis Stevenson
Published 1873
676 pages
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
Published 1883
634 pages
Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac
Published 1897
416 pages
Sailing Alone Around the World
Joshua Slocum
1970 · 2006 edition
316 pages
Ninety-three
Victor Hugo
Published 1874
372 pages
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
Published 1892
284 pages
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners ...
John Bunyan
Published 1888
318 pages
The well-beloved
Thomas Hardy
Published 1899
362 pages
Trilby
George Du Maurier
Published 1894
484 pages
Hide and Seek
Wilkie Collins
1854 · 1856 edition
332 pages
Vincent Van Gogh
Colta Ives, Vincent van Gogh, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heugten, Marije Vellekoop
1973 · 2006 edition
450 pages
Paul Verlaine
Stefan Zweig
Published 1913
106 pages
Præterita
John Ruskin
1899 · 1900 edition
424 pages
Rhyme? and Reason?
Lewis Carroll
Published 1884
240 pages
Souls grown deep
Paul Arnett, William Arnett
Published 1999
544 pages
Hopes and Fears for Art
William Morris
Published 1882
236 pages
Stories and Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
Published 1870
602 pages
Felice Beato
Anne Lacoste
Published 2010
202 pages
Wonder of the age
John Guy
Published 2011
224 pages
Delacroix
Sébastien Allard, Côme Fabre
Published 2018
314 pages
Recollections of a Happy Life
Marianne North
Published 1894
368 pages