Public Domain Stories

A list of literature (stories, poems, novels, etc.) that are in the Public Domain. Includes any story first published before 1923.

Compare Public Domain Character.

Subcategories:
 * Classic Literature
 * Nineteenth Century Literature

Numbers, A-B-C

 * Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 * The Art of War
 * The Bible: While the actual text is in the public domain and many versions of the Bible are free of copyright, certain versions of it are copyrighted in some jurisdictions (e.g., the King James Bible is under perpetual copyright in the United Kingdom).
 * Beowulf
 * The Canterbury Tales
 * Candide
 * Crime and Punishment

D-E-F

 * Emma
 * The Faerie Queene

G-H-I

 * Gullivers Travels
 * The Hunchback of Notre Dame
 * The Iliad

J-K-L

 * The first 5 books of John Carter of Mars.
 * King Arthur and anything related to the Holy Grail.
 * The first 16 books in the Land of Oz series, including
 * The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
 * The Marvelous Land of Oz
 * Lady Susan

M-N-O

 * Mansfield Park
 * Northanger Abbey
 * The Odyssey
 * Orlando a Biography

P-Q-R

 * Peter Pan, though not in England.
 * Persuasion
 * Pride and Prejudice

S-T-U

 * Sense and Sensibility
 * All the works of William Shakespeare
 * Swan Lake

V-W-X

 * War and Peace
 * The Wonderful Wizard of Oz