Do you want to read all the classics? go here:
http://www.textfiles.com/etext/
Under authors it has Poe, shakespeare, dickins and many more
Also, under the other catagories you have speaches, holy books (king james bible and book of mormon) and many essays. As well as many other things i have failed to point out
All the classics are there and free for you to read!
(the main textfiles site has directories that you are free to download with a .zip file, but sadly the etext version dosent)
to sum it up:
www.textfiles.com: the closest thing to an archeive of all human knowledge