When I created Serial Literature, the intention was to offer a way to read books that were originally published in serial format in the way their authors intended -- except using email, which was not that popular in the 1800s or early 1900s.
Then I started to receive lots of readers' requests to read other classic novels that were never serialized. I caved to these requests and expanded the catalog from initially 5 to now more than 250 books. As a compromise, I mark all books that were originally published in a serial format with a [originally published in serial format] tag. I hope this is ok with everyone.
There are 59 authors to check; the last one is William Shakespeare, so it's worth scrolling to the bottom!
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3 installments (between 7 and 14 minutes of reading each)
20 installments (between 2 and 16 minutes of reading each)
5 installments (between 1 and 30 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Alexander Pope are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Alexandre Dumas are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Ambrose Bierce are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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9 installments (between 6 and 121 minutes of reading each)
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All these books by Anton Chekhov are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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14 installments (between 11 and 31 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Arthur Conan Doyle are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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31 installments (between 4 and 21 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Baroness Orczy are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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5 installments (between 11 and 51 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Bernard Shaw are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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53 installments (between 5 and 22 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Bram Stoker are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
5 installments (between 10 and 34 minutes of reading each)
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All these books by Charles Dickens are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
38 installments (between 8 and 46 minutes of reading each)
42 installments (between 6 and 45 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Charlotte Brontë are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
[originally published in serial format]
12 installments (between 16 and 21 minutes of reading each)
2 installments (between 12 and 14 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Charlotte Perkins Gilman are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
20 installments (between 16 and 37 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Daniel Defoe are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Dante Alighieri are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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1 installments (between 5 and 6 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Edgar Allan Poe are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Edith Wharton are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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19 installments (between 7 and 32 minutes of reading each)
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27 installments (between 6 and 23 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Frances Hodgson Burnett are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
3 installments (between 29 and 31 minutes of reading each)
10 installments (between 9 and 81 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Franz Kafka are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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6 installments (between 13 and 82 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Fyodor Dostoevsky are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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70 installments (between 4 and 48 minutes of reading each)
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All these books by George Eliot are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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6 installments (between 47 and 117 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Gustave Flaubert are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
177 installments (between 3 and 59 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Guy de Maupassant are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
13 installments (between 16 and 29 minutes of reading each)
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All these books by H. G Wells are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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45 installments (between 5 and 34 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Harriet Beecher Stowe are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
3 installments (between 32 and 43 minutes of reading each)
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All these books by Henrik Ibsen are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Henry James are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
4 installments (between 12 and 18 minutes of reading each)
150 installments (between 1 and 33 minutes of reading each)
45 installments (between 2 and 26 minutes of reading each)
6 installments (between 11 and 127 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Herman Melville are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
12 installments (between 7 and 20 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Hermann Hesse are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
24 installments (between 18 and 40 minutes of reading each)
24 installments (between 13 and 35 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Homer are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Honoré de Balzac are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
17 installments (between 5 and 18 minutes of reading each)
17 installments (between 5 and 18 minutes of reading each)
All these books by J. M. Barrie are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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25 installments (between 7 and 21 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Jack London are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by James Joyce are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Jane Austen are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
33 installments (between 1 and 15 minutes of reading each)
13 installments (between 8 and 37 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
21 installments (between 11 and 30 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Jonathan Swift are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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2 installments (between 33 and 35 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Joseph Conrad are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Jules Verne are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Kahlil Gibran are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
21 installments (between 2 and 51 minutes of reading each)
29 installments (between 4 and 14 minutes of reading each)
21 installments (between 2 and 41 minutes of reading each)
22 installments (between 2 and 18 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Kate Chopin are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
23 installments (between 4 and 16 minutes of reading each)
All these books by L. Frank Baum are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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32 installments (between 6 and 22 minutes of reading each)
All these books by L. M. Montgomery are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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4 installments (between 7 and 34 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Leo Tolstoy are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
12 installments (between 7 and 12 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Lewis Carroll are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Louisa May Alcott are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
34 installments (between 6 and 23 minutes of reading each)
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All these books by Mark Twain are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
25 installments (between 8 and 34 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Mary Shelley are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
126 installments (between 4 and 34 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Miguel de Cervantes are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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21 installments (between 12 and 36 minutes of reading each)
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39 installments (between 7 and 51 minutes of reading each)
All these books by Nathaniel Hawthorne are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Oscar Wilde are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Plato are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Robert Louis Stevenson are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Rudyard Kipling are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Thomas Hardy are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Victor Hugo are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Voltaire are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Walter Scott are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by Washington Irving are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.
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All these books by William Shakespeare are in the Public domain worldwide. If you don't want to read it through installments, you can access the complete books in several formats at the Project Gutenberg.