The great novelist Philip Roth turned 80 years old today.
To celebrate his birthday, we’ve linked to a long list of free eBooks that inspired his long career as a novelist–follow the links below to download for your Kindle, Nook, iPad or other popular reader.
The New Yorker has more details: “Roth told Les inRocks that when he turned seventy-four he reread his favorite authors—Dostoyevsky, Conrad, Turgenev, Hemingway.”
Free Books by Philip Roth’s Favorite Authors
1. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5. The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
7. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
8. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
9. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
10. The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
11. Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev
12. The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev
13. A Sportsman’s Sketches by Ivan Turgenev
14. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev
15. Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev
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