Free death & grief books

Books about death and grief keep you company in loss. They describe the days after someone dies, the strange year that follows, and how people slowly learn to carry what cannot be fixed. You will find novels, memoirs and gentle guides here, written by people who have been through it. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.

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Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare, David Wardle

1871 · 1875 edition

154 pages

Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

Published 1895

516 pages

Hamlet
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare

1877 · 1899 edition

228 pages

The Divine Comedy
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The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

1870 · 1895 edition

780 pages

Bleak house
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Bleak house

Charles Dickens

1858 · 1882 edition

600 pages

Sonnets
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Sonnets

William Shakespeare

1890 · 1891 edition

200 pages

Oliver Twist
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Oliver Twist

Robert Louis Stevenson

Published 1873

676 pages

Purgatorio
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Purgatorio

Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Published 1883

466 pages

Antony & Cleopatra
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Antony & Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

1870 · 1891 edition

298 pages

The American
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The American

Henry James, Lee Clark Mitchell, Taylor Anderson, GP Editors, William Spengemann

Published 1877

486 pages

Timon of Athens
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Timon of Athens

William Shakespeare

Published 1888

200 pages

Leaves of Grass
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Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

1886 · 1897 edition

466 pages

The Claverings
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The Claverings

Anthony Trollope

1878 · 1894 edition

498 pages

Macbeth
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Macbeth

William Shakespeare, Michael Barltrop

1873 · 1890 edition

230 pages