Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 02/10/2026What is a book you wanted to hate but won you over? 000
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 01/10/2026“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter—often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter—in the eye.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre standardebooks.org/ebooks/charl... 010
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 30/09/2026Franz Kafka referenced many books in his work. Here are a few public domain authors and books he was known to love. Sentimental Education By Gustave Flaubert The Magic Mountain By Thomas Mann The Sorrows of Young Werther By J.W. Von Goethe Short Fiction By Nikolai Gogolstandardebooks.orghttps://standardebooks.org/ebooks 061
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 29/09/2026“A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.” ― Not Edgar Allan Poe While this is a great quote, this isn’t anything Edgar Allan Poe ever wrote. It is usually attributed to Montresor from "The Cask of Amontillado," but it is simply not in the text or in any of Poe’s writings.🕯️ 031
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 28/09/2026“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.” – Rumi 011
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 25/09/2026“Cats – by day the most docile of God’s creatures, every one of them in the night enlisting under the devil’s banner – took the place by storm after the human voice had ceased.” ― W.H. Davies, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp 072
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 24/09/2026What's that one book your friends are tired of hearing you talk about? 210
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 23/09/2026"...autumn — that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness — that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling." – Jane Austen, Persuasion 020
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 21/09/2026“We must ourselves develop the men and women who will faithfully portray the inmost thoughts and feelings of the Negro with all the fire and romance which lie dormant in our history...” Pauline E. Hopkins, Contending Forces standardebooks.org/ebooks/pauli...standardebooks.orghttps://standardebooks.org/ebooks/pauline-e-hopkins/contending-forces 010
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 19/09/2026“It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.” ― Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education standardebooks.org/ebooks/gusta...standardebooks.orghttps://standardebooks.org/ebooks/gustave-flaubert/sentimental-education/m-walter-dunne 010
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 17/09/2026“There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away.” – Emily Dickinson 020
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 15/09/2026"September 15th—This is the month of quiet days, crimson creepers, and blackberries; of mellow afternoons in the ripening garden; of tea under the acacias instead of the too shady beeches; of wood-fires in the library in the chilly evenings." – Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden 020
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 14/09/2026"Music will prove a ladder to the loftier regions of thought; indeed I have long found for myself that I cannot attain to the highest range of my intellectual power except when hearing good music." John Meade Faulkner, The Lost Stradivarius standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-...standardebooks.orghttps://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-meade-falkner/the-lost-stradivarius 010
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 11/09/2026“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby standardebooks.org/ebooks/f-sco...standardebooks.orghttps://standardebooks.org/ebooks/f-scott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby 171
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 09/09/2026“Examples are more powerful than precepts; hence I quote them.” ― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Art of Illustration standardebooks.org/ebooks/c-h-s... 000
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 08/09/2026“You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.” ― Arthur Ransome 0236
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 04/09/2026“But devils are subservient to certain influences of the stars, because magicians observe the course of certain stars in order to evoke the devils.” ― Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum standardebooks.org/ebooks/heinr...standardebooks.orghttps://standardebooks.org/ebooks/heinrich-kramer/malleus-maleficarum/montague-summers 010
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 03/09/2026“Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told.” ― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow 081
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 01/09/2026"Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” ― Oscar Wilde 062
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 31/08/2026“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” – Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 063
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 28/08/2026“the house of fiction has...not one window, but a million...every one of which has been pierced, or is still pierceable...by the need of the individual vision and by the pressure of the individual will.” – Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady 011
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 27/08/2026standardebooks.org/ebooks/herbe...standardebooks.orghttps://standardebooks.org/ebooks/herbert-gorman/the-place-called-dagon 010
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 27/08/2026"If he was to solve the mystery of Marlborough—and there was a mystery, for he felt it like two huge dark wings hovering over the entire community—he must do it all by himself." -Herbert Gorman, The Place Called Dagon 220
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 26/08/2026“To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair—chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.” ― H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance 051
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 24/08/2026Thanks to the newest members of the Patron's Circle. We were hoping to secure 40 new members by the end of today, and as of this posting, we have 53! Our stretch goal is 60. Will you help us with a #donation and support free, unrestricted digital #literature? standardebooks.org/donate#patro... 053
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 21/08/2026Here's Jack London holding a pig because...it's Friday. Happy weekend reading! 🐷 040
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 19/08/2026"All the angry and bitter feelings that I thought burnt out for ever when I lay waiting for death, are stirred up as hotly as they were long ago. The old self is here as strong as ever!” ― Charlotte Mary Yonge, Clever Woman of the Family standardebooks.org/ebooks/charl... 000
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 18/08/2026We want to welcome 40 new patrons by Aug 24, and we are so close! It’s our patrons who keep us on the stable financial footing needed to produce and give away beautiful #ebooks. Will you become a patron and support free and unrestricted digital #literature? standardebooks.org/donate#patro... 051
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 18/08/2026“Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.” ― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature standardebooks.org/ebooks/david...standardebooks.orghttps://standardebooks.org/ebooks/david-hume/a-treatise-of-human-nature 041
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 17/08/2026With the publication of "If I Had a Father" by George MacDonald, there are officially 1,500 books in the SE library! This is a labor of love that could not happen without the generosity of our donors and patrons. Thank you for keeping these wonderful works of literature alive and readable today! 0152
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 17/08/2026Join the circle: standardebooks.org/donate#patro... 000
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 17/08/2026We are looking for 40 new patrons by August 24! Patrons help bring beautiful digital literature to life. And it comes with some perks! 1. Your name on our masthead. 2. Access to various ebook feeds! 3. Bulk ebook downloads. 4. Submit a book for inclusion. 5. Vote on which books are produced next. 111
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 14/08/2026Did you know the term "robot" was coined by Czech writer, playwright, critic, and journalist Karel Čapek in his 1920 play "R.U.R.," or Rossum's Universal Robots? “Robot” is derived from the Czech word meaning “worker.” You can read the whole thing here: standardebooks.org/ebooks/karel...standardebooks.orghttps://standardebooks.org/ebooks/karel-capek/r-u-r/paul-selver_nigel-playfair 062
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 12/08/2026“Rossum’s Universal Robots will produce so much wheat, so much cloth, so much everything that things will no longer have any value. Everyone will be able to take as much as he needs...Yes, people will be out of work, but by then there’ll be no work left to be done." ― Karel Čapek, R.U.R. 020
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 11/08/2026Vladimir Nabokov once admitted, "I dislike Jane Austen, and am prejudiced, in fact against all women writers. They are in another class." Later, after reading Austen's Mansfield Park, he recanted and began teaching this novel in his literary course. It is good to change our minds. 040
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 11/08/2026"The wise can often profit by the lessons of a foe, for caution is the mother of safety." – Aristophanes, The Birds 020
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 06/08/2026“I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.” ― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World standardebooks.org/ebooks/rabin... 1101
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 04/08/2026Did you know Charles Dickens, in an attempt to battle insomnia and improve his creativity while reading and writing, always slept facing north? 🧭 030
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 03/08/2026“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov standardebooks.org/ebooks/fyodo...standardebooks.orgThe Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translated by Constance Garnett - Free ebook downloadFree epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of The Brothers Karamazov: A dispute over inheritance between father and son escalates into a family feud. 020
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 31/07/2026August is "Women in Translation Month!" Let's grow each other's TBR piles a bit. What are some of your favorite translated books written by women? 071
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 29/07/2026Oscar Wilde at 28, photographed by Napoleon Sarony in 1882. 072
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 28/07/2026If you could erase the experience of reading one book to experience it for the first time again, what book would you choose? 031
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 27/07/2026If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song. If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief. – Henry van Dyke Jr. standardebooks.org/ebooks/henry... 040
Standard Ebooks @standardebooks.org · 23/07/2026“Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.” ― Leo Tolstoy 020
