
English
Literature
Claim
Yu Dafu · English
Seven stories by Yu Dafu explore loneliness, desire, poverty, and the troubled self-awareness of young people facing an uncertain modern world.
Catalog
Browse public-domain classics, preview each BooksWhale edition, and claim books through annual membership or earned book credits.
Search the shelves
Search by partial title, author, language, or category. Close spellings are welcome as the catalog grows.
Quick browse
Catalog results

English
Literature
Claim
Yu Dafu · English
Seven stories by Yu Dafu explore loneliness, desire, poverty, and the troubled self-awareness of young people facing an uncertain modern world.

English
Literature
Claim
Qu Yuan and other poets · English
Seventeen groups of classical Chinese poems explore exile, ritual, questioning, grief, and imagined journeys through the world of Chu.

English
Literature
Claim
William Allen White · English
A Kansas financier’s rise exposes the costs of ambition, inequality, and the pursuit of wealth in small-town America.

English
Science
Claim
John Burroughs · English
John Burroughs observes nesting birds, honeybees, fruit, woodland neighbors, and the patient attention that makes nature newly visible.

English
Philosophy
Claim
John Dewey · English
John Dewey examines inquiry as an experimental activity, connecting logical ideas with practical problems and the reconstruction of experience.

English
Politics
Claim
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · English
Charlotte Perkins Gilman examines how male-centered assumptions shape literature, education, institutions, and the organization of everyday social life.

English
Literature
Claim
Harold Frederic · English
A London speculator’s financial schemes turn social ambition and intimate relationships into a sharp study of money and power.

English
Literature
Claim
William Dean Howells · English
A young countryman’s arrival in Boston tests a minister’s good intentions against class prejudice, work, and personal responsibility.

English
Literature
Claim
John Muir · English
John Muir recalls a Scottish childhood, hard work on a Wisconsin farm, and the curiosity that shaped his life.

English
Science
Claim
Xu Guangqi · English
Xu Guangqi’s agricultural selections connect classical learning with practical advice on cultivation, fruit trees, land management, and animal husbandry.

English
Literature
Claim
Pu Songling · English
Pu Songling’s fourth through sixth original volumes bring fox spirits, ghosts, scholars, and uncanny reversals together in English Volume Two.

English
Literature
Claim
Tang Xianzu · English
Du Liniang’s dream-born love crosses death and the demands of family in Tang Xianzu’s celebrated fifty-five-scene romantic drama.

English
Philosophy
Claim
William James · English
Twelve philosophical essays examine pure experience, consciousness, relations, and the possibility of a world shared by different minds.

English
Economics
Claim
Henry George · English
Henry George examines tariffs, wages, production, and landownership to ask what genuine freedom of trade requires.

English
Philosophy
Claim
John Dewey · English
John Dewey reconsiders inherited philosophical problems through modern science, changing social conditions, practical inquiry, and democratic experience.

English
Literature
Claim
John Galsworthy · English
Twenty-six essays turn encounters with workers, animals, landscapes, and theatre into reflections on sympathy, social judgment, and artistic freedom.

English
History
Claim
Jane Addams · English
Jane Addams explores how women's memories reshape hardship, industrial life, social conventions, and opposition to war.

English
Religion
Claim
H. Fielding Hall · English
Observations of Burmese daily life connect Buddhist beliefs with government, monastic communities, family relationships, compassion, and attitudes toward death.

English
Literature
Claim
Willa Cather · English
Eight stories follow artists, performers, and restless outsiders whose desires collide with convention, ambition, and the costs of beauty.

English
Politics
Claim
Thorstein Veblen · English
Thorstein Veblen investigates nationalism, vested interests, democratic institutions, and the economic arrangements that sustain war or make lasting peace possible.

English
Literature
Claim
H. G. Wells · English
A young woman challenges family authority and Victorian convention while searching for education, independence, and an honest understanding of love.

English
Psychology
Claim
John Dewey · English
John Dewey examines how habits, impulses, intelligence, and social conditions shape conduct and the possibilities of moral change.

English
Politics
Claim
Jane Addams · English
Jane Addams relates the pursuit of peace to city government, industrial relations, immigrant life, women’s participation, and the protection of children.

English
Literature
Claim
Jack London · English
Jack London brings migration, seafaring, failed enterprise, and human conflict together in a collection of essays, recollections, and two plays.