presents
PRIZE-WINNING BOOKS ONLINE
In this exhibit, you can read online the complete text of books
that have won major literary prizes, like
the Newbery Award,
the Nobel Prize,
and the Pulitzer Prize.
The books listed below are either
out of copyright (at least in the US), or are online with the permission
of the copyright holder.
Books listed without a link are not online at this time, but can go online
if someone digitizes them.
Please let us know of any free online copies of any
of the unlinked books here. Please also inform us of any
bad links.
The Newbery award for outstanding children's books by Americans
was established in 1922.
Each year a medal is given to a book published the previous year. In most
years, Honor Books are designated as well.
More information, including information on recent winners, can be found at the
official Newbery Medal Home Page.
- 1922
- 1923
- 1924
- Medalist: The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes
- (No record of honor books in 1924)
Due to copyright restrictions, we cannot yet be complete for
subsequent years of the Newbery awards. The following later
Newbery awardees are online, or appear to be eligible to go online in the US:
- A 1925 Honor book: The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish
- A 1926 Honor book: The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery by Padraic Colum
- A 1929 Honor book: Tod of the Fens by Elinor Whitney
- A 1930 Honor book: Jumping-Off Place by Marion Hurd McNeely
- A 1931 Honor book: Spice and the Devil's Cave by Agnes Danforth Hewes
- A 1934 Honor book: Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside by Padraic Colum
- A 1934 Honor book: New Land by Sarah Schmidt
- A 1935 Honor book: Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic by Hilda von Stockum
- A 1940 Honor book: Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz by Mabel Louise Robinson
- A 1947 Honor book: The Heavenly Tenants by William Maxwell
- A 1948 Honor book: The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot by Catherine Besterman
- A 1949 Honor book: My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
- A 1950 Honor book: The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Coblentz
- A 1952 Honor book: The Defender by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
- 1964 Medalist: It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
The Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to an author from any country
who has produced "the most outstanding
work of an idealistic tendency", was established in 1901.
The prize is given to an author, and does not usually cite individual
books. Online and
other public-domain books by winning authors are listed below.
For more information on the Nobel Prize, including information
on recent winners, see
the official Nobel Prize web site.
(That site provided information on many of the titles listed below.)
- 1901: Sully Prudhomme (France, 1839-1907)
- 1902: Chrisian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (Germany, 1817-1903)
: English language books online
- Römische Geschichte (1854-1903)
- 1903: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (Norway, 1832-1910)
: English language books online
- En Glad Gut (1860)
- De Nygifte (1865)
- Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp as The Newly Married Couple
in Three Comedies
- Digte og Sange (orig. 1870)
- En Fallit (1875)
- Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp as The Bankrupt
in Three Dramas
- Redaktøren (1875)
- Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp as The Editor
in Three Dramas
- Kongen (1877)
- Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp as The King
in Three Dramas
- Leonarda (1879)
- En Haske (1883)
- Det flager i byen og på havnen (1884)
- På Guds Veie (1889)
- Absalons Haar (1894)
- Over Oevne, Annet Stykke (1895)
- Paul Lange og Tora Parsberg (1899)
- Nar den ny vin blomstrer (1909)
- 1904: Frédéric Mistral (France, 1830-1914)
- Miréio (1859)
- Calendau (1867)
- Lis Isclo d'Or (1876)
- Nerto (1884)
- La Rèino Jano (1890)
- Lou Pouémo dóu Rose (1897)
- Moun Espelido: Memori è Raconte (1906)
- 1904: José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (Spain, 1852-1916)
- La Esposa del Vengador (1874)
- En el Puño de la Espada (1875)
- En el Pilar y en la Cruz (1878)
- Conflicto entre dos Deberes (1882)
- O Locura ó Santidad (1877)
- El Gran Galeoto (1881)
- 1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz (Poland, 1846-1916)
: English language books online
- Ogniem i Mieczem (1884)
- Potop (1886)
- Pan Wolodyjowski (1888)
- Bez Dogmatu (1891)
- Rodzina Polanieckich (1894)
- Quo Vadis (1895)
- Krzyzacy (1900)
- Na Polu Chwaly (1906)
- Wiry (1910)
- W Pustyni i w Puszczy (1912)
- 1906: Giosuè Carducci (Italy, 1837-1907)
- Rime (1857)
- Levia Gravia (1868)
- Nuove Poesie (1873)
- Studi Letterati (1874)
- Bozetti Critici e Discorsi Letterari (1876)
- Giambi ed Epodi (1882)
- 1907: Rudyard Kipling (UK, 1865-1936)
: English language books online
- 1908: Rudolf Christoph Eucken (Germany, 1846-1926)
- Die Lebensanschauungen der grosser Denker (1890)
- Der Kampf um einen geistigen Lebensinhalt (1896)
- Der Wahrheitsgehalt der Religion (1901)
- Grundlinien einer neuen Lebensanschauung (1907)
- Geistige Stromungen der Gegenwart (1908)
- Der Sinn und Wert des Lebens (1908)
- Present Day Ethics in Their Relation to the Spiritual Life (1913)
- 1909: Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (Sweden, 1858-1940)
: English language books online
- 1910: Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse (Germany, 1830-1914)
: English language books online
- 1911: Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium, 1862-1949)
: English language books online
- Le Massacre des Innocents (1886)
- La Sagesse et la Destinee (1898)
- La Vie des Abeilles (1900)
- Le Double Jardin (1903)
- The Measure of the Hours (coll. 1907, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos)
- L'Oiseau Bleu (1909)
- La Mort (1912)
- Trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos as Death (1912)
- L'Hote Inconnu
- Poems (coll. 1915, translated by Bernard Miall)
- The Wrack of the Storm (coll. 1916, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos)
- Mountain Paths (coll. 1919, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos)
- 1912: Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (Germany, 1862-1946)
- Die Weber (1892)
- Der Biberpelz (1893)
- Florian Geyer (1896)
- Fuhrmann Henschel (1898)
- Der Arme Heinrich (1902)
- Rose Bernd (1903)
- Greichischer Frühling (1908)
- Die Ratten (1911)
- Der Bogen des Odysseus (1914)
- Der Ketzer von Soana (1918)
- 1913: Rabindranath Tagore (India, 1861-1941)
: English language books online
- 1914: No award
- 1915: Romain Rolland (France, 1866-1944)
: English language books online
- Jean-Christophe (original 4-story series, 1905-1906)
- Jean-Christophe à Paris (1908)
- Jean-Christophe: La Fin du Voyage (1910-1912)
- 1916: Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (Sweden, 1859-1940)
- Vallfart och vandringsår (1888)
- Endymion (1889)
- Hans Alienus (1892)
- Dikter (1895)
- Karolinerna (1897-1898)
- Tankar ock Teckningar (1899)
- Heliga Birgittas Pilgrimsfärd (1901)
- Ett Folk (1902)
- Folkunga Trädet (1905, 1907)
- Svenskarna och Deras Hövdingar (1908-1910)
- Dagar och Händelser (1909)
- Nya Dikter (1915)
- 1917: Karl Adolph Gjellerup (Denmark, 1857-1919)
- 1917: Henrik Pontoppidan (Denmark, 1857-1943)
- 1918: No award
- 1919: Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (Switzerland, 1845-1924)
- See this page at Projekt Gutenberg-DE for some of his works in German.
- 1920: Knut Pedersen Hamsun (Norway, 1859-1952)
: English language books online
- Ny Jord (1893)
- Translated by Carl Christian Hyllested as Shallow Soil (1914)
- Sult (1899)
- Translated by George Egerton as Hunger (1920)
- Pan (1894)
- Den Siste Glaede (1912)
- Markens Gröde (1917)
- Wanderers (coll. 1922, translated by W. J. Alexander Worster)
- 1921: Anatole France (France, 1844-1924)
: English language books online
- 1922: Jacinto Benavente (Spain, 1866-1954)
- La Gobernadora (1901)
- Rosas de Otoño (1905)
- Los Intereses Creados (1907)
- Señora Ama (1908)
- La Malquerida (1913)
- 1923: William Butler Yeats (Ireland, 1865-1939)
: English language books online
- 1924: Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (Poland, 1867-1925)
- Komediantka (1896)
- Chlopi (1902-1909)
- Rok 1794 (1913-1918)
- 1925: George Bernard Shaw (UK, 1856-1950)
: English language books online
- 1926: Grazia Deledda (Italy, 1871-1936)
: English language books online
- La Madre (1920)
- Translated by Mary G. Steegman as The Mother (orig. 1922)
- 1927: Henri Bergson (France, 1859-1941)
: English language books online
- Essai sur les Donnes Immédiates de la Conscience (1889)
- Matière et Mémoire (1896)
- Le Rire (1900)
- Introduction à la Meéaphysique (1903)
- L'Évolution Créatice (1907)
- L'Energie Spirituelle (1919)
- 1928: Sigrid Undset (Norway, 1882-1949)
: English language books online
- 1929: Thomas Mann (Germany, 1875-1955)
- While we know of no complete books by Mann online at present, one
short story is available in English translation:
"Loulou".
The works below are also in the public domain in the US in their original German, and in some cases may also have public-domain English translations.
- Der Kleine Herr Friedemann (1898)
- Buddenbrooks (1901)
- Tristan (1903)
- Fiorenza (1906)
- Königliche Hoheit (1909)
- Tod in Venedig (1913)
- 1930: Sinclair Lewis (USA, 1885-1951)
: English language books online
- 1931: Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Sweden, 1864-1931)
- 1932: John Galsworthy (UK, 1867-1933)
: English language books online
- 1933: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (France, 1870-1953)
: English language books online
- 1934: Luigi Pirandello (Italy, 1867-1936)
: English language books online
- At Eldritch Press, you can find most of the plays below, plus additional material.
- Il Fu Mattia Pascal (1904)
- Lumie di Sicilia (1910)
- Se Gira (1919)
- Translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff as Shoot! (1926)
- Così è (Se Vi Pare) (1917)
- I Vecchi e i Giovani (1918)
- Sei Personaggi in Cerca D'Autore (1921)
- Enrico Quarto (1922)
- Translated by Edward Storer as Henry IV (1922)
- 1935: No award
- 1936: Eugene O'Neill (USA, 1888-1953)
: English language books online
- 1937: Roger Martin Du Gard (France, 1881-1958)
- Jean Barois (1913)
- Le Testament du Père Leleu (1920)
- 1938: Pearl S. Buck (USA, 1892-1973)
- Buck's very first magazine writing, from 1922, is now
in the public domain.
- 1939: Frans Emil Sillanpää (Finland, 1888-1964)
: English language books online
- Elämä ja Aurinko (1916)
- Ihmislapsia Elämän Saatossa (1917)
- Hurskas Kurjuus (1919)
- Rakas Isänmaani (1919)
- Ihmiset Suviyössä (1934)
- 1940: No award
- 1941: No award
- 1942: No award
- 1943: No award
- 1944: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (Denmark, 1873-1950)
- Himmerlandshistorier (1898-1910)
- 1945: Gabriele Mistral (Chile, 1889-1957)
- Sonetos de la Muerte (1914)
- Desolación (1922)
- 1946: Hermann Hesse (Germany, 1877-1962)
: English language books online
- 1947: André Gide (France, 1869-1951)
- Les Cahiers d'Andreé Walter (1891)
- Les Nourritures Terrestres (1897)
- Saul (1903)
- Prétextes (1903)
- Le Retour de l'Enfant Prodigue (1907)
- La Porte Étroite (1909)
- Nouveaux Prétextes (1911)
- Les Caves du Vatican (1914)
- La Symphonie Pastorale (1919)
- 1948: T. S. Eliot (UK, 1888-1965)
: English language books online
- 1949: William Faulkner (USA, 1897-1962)
- Two early short stories are now in the public domain: "Landing in Luck" (1919), and "The Hill" (1922).
- 1950: Bertrand Russell (UK, 1872-1970)
: English language books online
- 1951: Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (Sweden, 1891-1974)
- Ordknost och Bildkonst (1913)
- Den Svåra Stunden (1918)
- Himlens Hemlighet (1919)
- 1952: François Mauriac (France, 1885-1970)
- Les Mainjointes (1909)
- Le Baiser aux Lepreux (1922)
- 1953: Winston Churchill (UK, 1874-1965)
: English language books online
Later authors will be listed if any of their books become available online.
Pulitzer Prizes for American biography, drama, fiction, history, and poetry
were established in 1917 and 1918.
For more information on the Pulitzer Prize, including information
on recent winners, see
the official Pulitzer Prize web site.
Biography
Except where noted,
the subject of each biography is either the person mentioned in the title,
or the author.
Drama
Fiction
History
Poetry
We have not yet determined whether any later Pulitzer Prize-winning books can
go online.
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