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Wilkie Collins
1854 · 1856 edition
332 pages
Books about art and creativity are about people who make things. Painters, writers, musicians and performers chase an idea, doubt themselves and sometimes pay dearly for their gift. These novels, memoirs and guides are inspiring for anyone with a creative life of their own. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.
Wilkie Collins
1854 · 1856 edition
332 pages
Roma Gill, British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, William Shakespeare, ATTICA Cybernetics Ltd, HarperCollins (Firm), Michael Barltrop, BBC Education
1873 · 1880 edition
114 pages
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Published 1886
290 pages
Edmondo De Amicis, Caroline Tilton
Published 1896
412 pages
Thomas Carlyle
Published 1845
216 pages
Charles Kingsley
1878 · 1898 edition
652 pages
Lewis Carroll, Susan Jameson, Saxon James
Published 1894
468 pages
Edward Young
Published 1798
422 pages
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Published 1876
238 pages
Charles Dickens
Published 1868
466 pages
Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Joseph Warton, William Roscoe, Whitwell Elwin, Warton, William John Courthope
Published 1871
542 pages
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Published 1896
428 pages

Colta Ives, Vincent van Gogh, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heugten, Marije Vellekoop
1973 · 2006 edition
450 pages
Henry Fielding
Published 1892
328 pages
Bāṇa
Published 1883
784 pages
William Shakespeare, John McDonald, Jon Haward, Gary Erskine, Nigel Dobbyn
1868 · 1892 edition
494 pages
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1852 · 1899 edition
514 pages
George Gissing
Published 1897
444 pages
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Published 1887
104 pages
Stefan Zweig
Published 1913
106 pages
Louisa May Alcott, Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney
Published 1889
436 pages
Charles Dickens
Published 1892
444 pages
John Bunyan, Steve West
Published 1849
200 pages
John Ruskin
1899 · 1900 edition
424 pages