Excellent, thanks! A number of those are already on my list, but most are not. Many of the ones I didn't include are ineligible under the self-imposed limitation of "world wide public domain," which I've implemented as published pre-1923 *and* author/translator/illustrator death+70. Plus wanting around 100 items, with no more than one item per book. Yes, in English -- everyone else is free to make their own list, of course, and it can be saved in perpetuity in a few places. To actually *make* a downloadable collection, http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/pgiso/ I'll try to work some of these in. Thanks again, -- Greg On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 10:24:04AM -0700, James Adcock wrote:
I did a similar exercise some years ago. Below find the "obvious" items on my list which are not on your list for you to consider. I have not filtered out on "English Only" -- which I think is a bad idea -- I think well-known translations need to be included. These are all on PG but have not otherwise been checked for more detailed copyright issues. Where I have only included an author name it is because I would not pretend to be able to guess which (only) of that author's works to include. As always, the unfortunate reality is that this list of the "Best of the Best" also includes many of PG's worst transcribed, and worst html/epub efforts. Cheers.
Aesop: Fables
Anonymous: The Arabian Nights
Honore de Balzac: Pere Goriot
E.M. Berens: Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes
Willa Cather: My Antonia
Anton Chekhov
G. K. Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday
James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
Richard Dana: Two Years Before the Mast
Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy
Richard Harding Davis: Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
Emily Dickinson: Poems by Emily Dickinson
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier
E.M. Forster: A Room with a View
Sigmund Freud: Dream Psychology
Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South
Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls
(Henry) H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
O. Henry: The Gift of the Magi
Herodotus: The Histories
Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha
William D. Howells: The Rise of Silas Lapham
Elbert Hubbard: A Message to Garcia
Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House
Sarah Orne Jewett: The Country of the Pointed Firs
James Weldon Johnson: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis
Andrew Lang: The Colored Fairy Books
D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt
Edward Bulwer Lytton: Last Days of Pompeii
Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince
A.E.W. Mason: The Four Feathers
G. Maspero
W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage
Guy de Maupassant: Yvette
Saint Sir Thomas More: Utopia
Edith Nesbit: The Enchanted Castle
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra
Baroness Emmuska Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Edgar Allan Poe: Collection of Edgar Allan Poe
Marcel Proust: Swann's Way
George Rawlinson
Edmond Rostand: Cyrano De Bergerac
Rafael Sabatini: Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini: Scaramouche
Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
William Shakespeare: Macbeth
George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
Joshua Slocum: Sailing Alone Around the World
Sophocles: Oedipus Trilogy
Henry Stanton: Sex
Gertrude Stein: Three Lives
Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons
Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Booth Tarkington: The Magnificent Ambersons
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
Sojourner Truth: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev: Spring Torrents
Lao Tzu: The Tao Te Ching
H. G. Wells: The Time Machine
H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds
Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton: House of Mirth
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Owen Wister: The Virginian
P. G. Wodehouse: My Man Jeeves
Émile Zola: Theresa Raquin