Category Archives: Free ebooks

Free George MacDonald PDFs

The following is a complete list of George MacDonald’s books that are available for free in PDF format from the Internet Archive. Abridged titles are given in parentheses.

  1. Adela Cathcart, containing “The Light Princess”, “The Shadows”, and other short stories
  2. Alec Forbes of Howglen (= The Maiden’s Bequest)
  3. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (★★★★★)
  4. At the Back of the North Wind
  5. Beautiful Thoughts from George MacDonald (compilation)
  6. Cheerful Words from the Writing of George MacDonald (compilation)
  7. David Elginbrod (= The Tutor’s First Love)
  8. Dealings with the Fairies, containing “The Golden Key”, “The Light Princess”, “The Shadows”, and other short stories
  9. Diary of an Old Soul (★★★★)
  10. “The Disciple” and Other Poems
  11. A Dish of Orts (essays)
  12. Donal Grant (= The Shepherd’s Castle), a sequel to Sir Gibbie
  13. Dramatic and Miscellaneous Poems
  14. The Elect Lady (= The Landlady’s Master)
  15. England’s Antiphon (a history of religious poetry)
  16. Far Above Rubies
  17. The Flight of the Shadow
  18. The Gifts of the Child Christ and Other Tales (= Stephen Archer and Other Tales)
  19. Guild Court: A London Story (= The Prodigal Apprentice)
  20. Gutta Percha Willie, the Working Genius (= The Genius of Willie MacMichael)
  21. Heather and Snow (= The Peasant Girl’s Dream) (★★★)
  22. “A Hidden Life” and Other Poems
  23. Home Again: A Tale (= The Poet’s Homecoming)
  24. The Hope of the Gospel (★★)
  25. Lilith: A Romance
  26. Malcolm (updated under the same title)
  27. The Marquis of Lossie (= The Marquis’ Secret), the sequel of Malcolm (★★★★)
  28. Mary Marston (= A Daughter’s Devotion or The Shopkeeper’s Daughter)
  29. The Miracles of Our Lord (sermons) (★★★★★)
  30. Paul Faber, Surgeon (= The Lady’s Confession), a sequel to Thomas Wingfold, Curate
  31. Phantastes: A Fairie Romance for Men and Women (★★)
  32. The Portent
  33. The Princess and the Goblin (★★★★★)
  34. The Princess and Curdie, a sequel to The Princess and the Goblin (★★★★★)
  35. Rampolli: Growths from a Long-planted Root
  36. Ranald Bannerman’s Boyhood (= The Boyhood of Ranald Bannerman)
  37. Robert Falconer (= The Musician’s Quest) (★★★★★)
  38. A Rough Shaking (= The Wanderings of Clare Skymer)
  39. St. George and St. Michael
  40. Salted with Fire (= The Minister’s Restoration)
  41. Scotch Songs and Ballads
  42. The Seaboard Parish, a sequel to Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (★★★★★)
  43. Sir Gibbie (= The Baronet’s Song) (★★★★★)
  44. Thomas Wingfold, Curate (= The Curate’s Awakening) (★★★★★)
  45. There and Back (= The Baron’s Apprenticeship), a sequel to Paul Faber, Surgeon (★★★★★)
  46. The Threefold Cord: Poems by Three Friends
  47. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: A Study With the Test of the Folio of 1623
  48. Unspoken Sermons (1st series2nd series3rd series) (★★★★★)
  49. The Vicar’s Daughter, a sequel to Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood and The Seaboard Parish
  50. Warlock o’ Glenwarlock (= Castle Warlock and The Laird’s Inheritance)
  51. Weighed and Wanting (= The Gentlewoman’s Choice) (★★)
  52. What’s Mine’s Mine (= The Highlander’s Last Song)
  53. Wilfrid Cumbermede
  54. The Wise Woman: A Parable (= “The Lost Princess: A Double Story” or “A Double Story”)
  55. Within and Without: A Dramatic Poem

Although all of George MacDonald’s works are out of copyright, this list does not include everything he has written. If you want a more complete list, you can check out our Complete Bibliography of George MacDonald.

Free Books by Samuel M. Zwemer (30+)

Samuel M. Zwemer worked as a pioneer missionary in Iraq, Bahrain, and Egypt, but his most lasting influence was through his conferences and books. He worked tirelessly as a missions mobilizer to make Christians aware of the challenges and opportunities of missions among Muslims.

The following list links to free PDFs of Zwemer’s books from several sources, many of them graciously shared by the Zwemer Center or by muhammadanism.org.

  1. Across the World of Islam
  2. Arabia: The Cradle of Islam (4th Edition)
  3. Call to Prayer [Zwemer Center]
  4. Childhood in the Moslem World
  5. The Cross Above the Crescent [Zwemer Center]
  6. Daylight in the Harem (with Annie van Sommer)
  7. The Disintegration of Islam
  8. Evangelism Today: Message Not Method [Zwemer Center]
  9. The Glory of the Cross  (Arabic Translation)
  10. The Glory of the Manger
  11. The Golden Milestone
  12. Heirs of the Prophets [HathiTrust]
  13. The Influence of Animism on Islam
  14. Into All the World [Zwemer Center]
  15. Islam, A Challenge to Faith (2nd Edition) (German Translation)
  16. Islam and Missions (editor & contributor)
  17. The Law of Apostasy in Islam
  18. Lucknow, 1911
  19. The Mohammedan World of Today (with E. M. Wherry)
  20. Mohammed or Christ (Fleming H. Revell edition)
  21. The Moslem Christ
  22. The Moslem Doctrine of God
  23. The Moslem World (revised for students from Islam, A Challenge to Faith)
  24. A Moslem Seeker After God (Arabic Translation)
  25. The Nearer and Farther East (with Arthur J. Brown)
  26. Our Muslim Sisters (editor & contributor)
  27. Raymond Lull: First Missionary to the Muslims (Spanish Translation)
  28. The Solitary Throne
  29. Sons of Adam: Studies of Old Testament Characters in New Testament Light
  30. Taking Hold of God
  31. Thinking Missions with Christ (3rd Edition)
  32. Topsy-Turvy Land: Arabia Pictured for Children (with Amy E. Zwemer)
  33. The Unoccupied Mission Fields of Africa and Asia
  34. Zigzag Journeys in the Camel Country (with Amy E. Zwemer)

This list only includes full-length books. For an exhaustive list of Samuel M. Zwemer’s publications, see our bibliography for Samuel Zwemer.

 

FREE CHRISTIAN BOOKS

Although our website has loads of information about your favorite Christian authors like George MacDonald, F. W. Boreham, Andrew Murray, Oswald Chambers, E. M. Bounds, and others, not everyone knows that most books by these authors are available for free online in digital format. There are also free audiobooks for most of these authors.

In time, this will become a whole new section of my website—free books.

In the next few weeks, I will be posting links explaining the best websites for each author, and why certain books end up online but not others.

Free books by G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton wrote books of essays, poetry, criticism, drama, and lay theology. C. S. Lewis was profoundly affected by Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man, and it would be difficult to calculate Chesterton’s obvious inspiration in the works and lives of both Lewis and Tolkien.
Because Chesterton was promoted to glory in 1936, nearly everything published in his name is out of copyright, and you can get a vast quantity of them for free in almost any digital format you want.
 

Free Ebook! (Ion Keith-Falconer of Arabia)

 

Today is the 132th anniversary of Ion Keith-Falconer’s death in Yemen. If you haven’t read his incredible story, you can get a free PDF copy at the link below!

This is the page-turning biography of Ion Keith-Falconer, a missionary who studied in Germany and Egypt before relocating his family to the colony of Aden, in present-day Yemen. Like C. T. Studd, Keith-Falconer was a famous athlete and a spokesman for what some have called “muscular Christianity.” He also had a promising career as a linguist and received a lecturing appointment at Cambridge. Keith-Falconer died tragically not long after arriving in his chosen mission field, but his consecrated life was an inspiration that led many more to the mission field.

This biography was written by James Robson, one of the missionaries that went to Yemen after Ion Keith-Falconer.

Click here to download a free copy of the biography of Ion Keith-Falconer!

The Ultimate Guide to Free Bible Commentaries

Genesis | Exodus | Leviticus | Numbers | Deuteronomy | Joshua | Judges | Ruth | 1 & 2 Samuel | 1 & 2 Kings | 1 & 2 Chronicles | Ezra | Nehemiah | Esther

Job | Psalms | Proverbs | Ecclesiastes | Song of Songs

Isaiah | Jeremiah | Lamentations | Ezekiel | Daniel

Hosea | Joel | Amos | Obadiah | Jonah | Micah | Nahum | Habakkuk | Zephaniah | Haggai | Zechariah | Malachi

Matthew | Mark | Luke | John | Acts

Romans | 1 Corinthians | 2 Corinthians | Galatians | Ephesians | Philippians | Colossians | 1 Thessalonians | 2 Thessalonians | 1 Timothy | 2 Timothy | Titus | Philemon | Hebrews

James | 1 Peter | 2 Peter | 1, 2 & 3 John | Jude | Revelation

Lists with full references

Genesis | Isaiah

Recommended resources

Free Commentaries on Leviticus – Quick Links (Ultimate List of Bible Commentaries)

Babington | Bonar | Bush | Chapman & Streane [GB] | Cumming | Haupt | Howard | Jellie [GB] | Joule [GB] | Kellogg | Maclagan | Murphy | Newton | Seiss |

Sermons & lectures

Fleming [GB] | Reynolds (“T. H. R.”)

Essays & special studies

Jukes (1–7) | Kelly (23)

Pentateuch Commentaries

Ainsworth | Blunt | “Chizkuni” (Rabbi Hezekiah ben Manoah) | A. Jackson |Kalisch | Kenrick | Kidder | Morison | “Ramban” (Rabbi Moses ben Nahman) | “Sforno” (Ovadiah ben Ya’akov Seforno) | A. Wright

Other: Delgado (tr. of Pentateuch) | von Gerlach?

German: Dillmann | Hoffmann

To Borrow

Bailey | R. Boyce | De Welt | Gerstenberg | Grabbe | | Lenz | McGee | North | Pfeiffer | Turner | Wenham

I have looked through IA and GB. Still looking for: C. A. Coates' Outline, Guyon, Ephrem the Syrian, Charles Herbert Moore's Notes, A. B. Simpson, Taylor's Readings on Leviticus, Townsend's (1849) Pentateuch and the book of Job. "Other writings on Leviticus are lost, among them the commentaries of Diodore of Tarsus, Apollinarius of Laodicea and Victorinus of Poetovio."
G. J. S. | Darby | Stephen Langton? | Michaelis

Free Commentaries on Numbers – Quick Links (Ultimate List of Free Bible Commentaries)

Gray | Guyon | Howard (Num Deut)| Jones [Preacher’s Homiletical Commentary] | Winterbotham [“Pulpit Commentary”]

Pentateuch

Ainsworth | Blunt | “Chizkuni” (Rabbi Hezekiah ben Manoah) | A. Jackson |Kalisch | Kenrick | Kidder | Morison | “Ramban” (Rabbi Moses ben Nahman) | “Sforno” (Ovadiah ben Ya’akov Seforno) | A. Wright |

Sermons

Hogg | Thornton?

Non-English

German: Knobel

To borrow

Greenstone | Levine (1–20) [“Anchor Bible”]

I've searched IA and GB quite well. There are very few stand-alone commentaries on the Book of Numbers. Still looking for: A. B. Simpson's Christ in the Pentateuch.

Free Commentaries on Ecclesiastes – Quick Links (Ultimate List of Free Bible Commentaries)

Bradley | Coleman | Cox | Dale | Devine | Durell (Job, Prov, Ps, Eccl, SoS) | Genung | Ginsburg | Hamilton | Haupt | Hengstenberg | Leale | Tyler | Ycard | Young

Sermons & expositions

Maclaren [“Expositions of Holy Scripture”] | J. Parker [“People’s Bible”]

Single-book translations

Coleman | Genung | Harrison | Haupt | Noyes | Ycard

Non-English

Latin: Duport

To Borrow

Bottoms | Bridges | Loader | Longman | Mallott | Power | Seow

I've been through IA a decent bit but could do more. Need to check through PRDL, GB. Looking for: Isaac Delgado (1789) New English Translation of the Pentateuch; 

Free Commentaries on Deuteronomy – Quick Links (Ultimate List of Free Bible Commentaries)

Balfour | Colesso (Gen – Josh) | Driver | Hastings [“Speaker’s Bible”] | Howard (Num Deut) | Jordan [“Bible for Home & School”] | Payne | Reider | Schroeder | Todd (Ex Lev Num Deut) | Wilkins | Wolfendale

Pentateuch

Evans (Pentateuch) [“Through the Bible Book by Book”]

Sermons

Mackintosh vol 1 (1–6) | Mackintosh vol 2 (7–34) | Parkinson (33)

Essays & dissertations

Curtiss | Douglas | Edward | Kennedy | Longacre | McNeile | Merson | Sims | Witsius

Non-English

German: Knobel (Num Deut Josh) | Link

Latin: Chytraeus | Drusius | Luther | Spencer (33:8)

I've searched IA, PRDL, and GB quite well.