Early modern
Featured — award winners and classics first, when available. Use “Show different books” for a new selection.
🔄 Show different books
The Tempest
King Lear
George Herbert and the seventeenth-century religious poets
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
Women novelists and the ethics of desire, 1684-1814
Sodomy and interpretation
English Renaissance Poetry
Sir John Vanbrugh
No island is an island
Shakespeare
The country-house ethos in English literature, 1688-1750
Chivalry in English literature
Literature and the Encounter with God in Post-Reformation England
The Metaphysicals and Milton
Shakespeare-lexicon
DLB 170: British Literary Book Trade, 1475-1700 (Dictionary of Literary Biography)
Shakespeare's restless world
Women and the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, 1640-1660
Literature Criticism From 1400 To 1800
The Habsburg chancery language in perspective
A reader's guide to the metaphysical poets
Early modern women's writing
Milton and the sons of God
Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England
Shakespeare's language
John Donne and the Line of Wit
Think On My Words
Heart-work
Poems
The development of the sonnet
Browse free books to read online
Book Explorer lets readers browse the free, readable part of the Open Library catalogue by familiar genres, or by the exact subject tags Open Library assigns each book. Every book has its own page with a reader where one is available, plus links to Open Library, your library, Libby and Amazon.
Fiction
- All Fiction
- Literary Fiction
- Children's Fiction
- Mystery & Detective
- Romance
- Fantasy
- Thriller & Suspense
- Historical Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Graphic Novels & Comics
- Humor
- Short Stories
- Horror
- Young Adult Fiction
- Western
Non-fiction
- All Non-fiction
- History
- Biography & Memoir
- Religion & Spirituality
- Politics & Social Sciences
- Travel
- Philosophy
- Business & Economics
- Science
- Art & Photography
- Cooking
- Self-Help
- Music
- Health & Fitness
- Sports & Recreation
- Humor
- True Crime