Edith Wharton's Summer is as much a children's book as Madame Bovary, and just as cheerful.


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
Input/feedback would be welcome.  I'm giving a presentation
this week on "why you should have a library in your pocket"
at the Wolfram Data Summit.  I've been working on a special
collection of around 100 items that could be put on a
CD/DVD, mobile device, etc. (in different formats: HTML, EPUB,
or others).  My goal is to have a test version of this
collection by then.

My listing is below as tab-delimited, and attached as an XLSX.

If you notice any important omissions, please mention them!
Criteria are:
- interesting and worthwhile
- English only
- coverage of different types of content (i.e., reference, classics,
   non-fiction...)
- only one item per author
- must (probably) be public domain worldwide:
  - published pre-1923
  - author, illustrator, translator death dates pre-1944 (life+70)

This turned out to be harder than I thought, but lots of fun.  I
used our Bookshelves, Top 100, GUTINDEX.ALL, and other sources.
I occasionally left something out that I thought was better forgotten
(such as Taylor's "Scientific Management"), and made one or two
arbitrary choices (such as Twain's "Connecticut Yankee" instead
of Huck or Tom).

The Genre categories are also somewhat arbitrary.  Most of these have
a great bibrec in gutenberg.org, but I just used a generic term like
"fiction" or "history."  Several items could use multiple genres, but
I am just including one (for example, Oscar Wilde is listed as Humor, not
Fiction).

Thanks, and happy reading!
  -- Greg

Project Gutenberg Selections
The goal of this collection is to identify interesting and important works from the Project Gutenberg collection.
"Every effort was made to identify items that are most likely in the public domain worldwide, not just in the US."

Genre   eBook # Title   Author last     Author first etc.       Author death    Translator last Translator first etc.   Translator death        Notes
Adventure       1257    Dumas   Alexandre       The Three Musketeers    1870
Adventure       521     Defoe   Daniel  Robinson Crusoe 1731
Adventure       2701    Melville        Herman  "Moby Dick, or, the Whale"      1891
Adventure       996     Cervantes       Miguel  Don Quixote     1616
Business        8581    Barnum  P.T.    The Art of Money Getting        1891
Children/youth  271     Sewell  Anna    Black Beauty    1878
Children/youth  14838   Potter  Beatrix The Tale of Peter Rabbit        1943
Children/youth  166     Wharton Edith   Summer  1937
Children/youth  113     Burnett Frances Hodges  The Secret Garden       1924
Children/youth  1597    Andersen        Hans Christian  Andersen's Fairy Tales  1875
Children/youth  11171   Stowe   Harriet Beecher "Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition"       1896
Children/youth  5747    Alger   Horatio Do and Dare: A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune    1899
Children/youth  19068   Grimm   Jacob   Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm 1863
Children/youth  289     Grahame Kenneth The Wind in the Willows 1932
Children/youth  55      Baum    L. Frank        The Wonderful Wizard of Oz      1919
Children/youth  503     The Blue Fairy Book     Lang    Andrew  1912
Children/youth  17412   Hope    Laura Lee       Bobbsey Twins                                   Syndicate author
Children/youth  28885   Carroll Lewis   Alice's Adventures in Wonderland        1898
Children/youth  514     Alcott  Louisa May      Little Women    1988
Children/youth  120     Stevenson       Robert Louis    Treasure Island 1894
Children/youth  35997   Kipling Rudyard Jungle Book     1936
Children/youth  3005    Appleton        Victor  Tom Swift and his Airship                                       Syndicate author
Children/youth  39784                   Mother Goose
Children/youth  18732                   Aesop's Fables
Classics        11000   Clay    Albert Tobias   Gilgamesh       1925
Classics        7768    Lamb    Charles The Adventures of Ulysses       1834
Classics        2383    Chaucer Geoffrey        Canterbury Tales        1400    Purves  David Liang     1873
Classics        5668    Scott   Jonathan        The Arabian Nights Entertainments       1829    Burton  Richard 1890
Classics        1497    Plato           Republic        -347
Classics        24269   Homer           The Odyssey of Homer    -650    Cowper  William 1800
Fantasy 829     Swift   Jonathan        Gulliver's Travels      1745
Fiction 5231    Trollope        Anthony The Way we Live Now     1882
Fiction 730     Dickens Charles Oliver Twist    1870
Fiction 1260    Bront‘  Charlotte       Jane Eyre       1855
Fiction 768     Bront‘  Emily   Wuthering Heights       1848
Fiction 145     Eliot   George  Middlemarch     1880
Fiction 14155   Flaubert        Gustave Madame Bovary   1880
Fiction 209     James   Henry   The Turn of the Screw   1916
Fiction 215     London  Jack    Call of the Wild        1916
Fiction 4300    Joyce   James   Ulysses 1941
Fiction 42671   Austen  Jane    Pride and Prejudice     1817
Fiction 14591   von Goethe      Johann Wolfgang Faust   1832    Taylor  Bayard  1878
Fiction 39452   Bunyan  John    Pilgrim's Progress      1688
Fiction 219     Conrad  Joseph  Heart of Darkness       1924
Fiction 103     Verne   Jules   Around the World in 80 Days     1905
Fiction 160     Chopin  Kate    Awakening       1904
Fiction 2600    Tolstoy Leo     War and Peace   1910    Aylmer  Maude   1939
Fiction 45      Montgomery      Lucy Maud       Anne of the Green Gables        1942
Fiction 84      Shelley Mary    Frankenstein    1851
Fiction 33      Hawthorne       Nathaniel       The Scarlet Letter      1864
Fiction 73      Crane   Stephen The Red Badge of Courage        1900
Fiction 27      Hardy   Thomas  Far from the Madding Crowd      1928
Fiction 135     Hugo    Victor  Les MisŽrables  1885
Fiction 1245    Woolf   Virginia        Night and Day   1941
Fiction 599     Thackeray       William Makepeace       Vanity Fair     1863
History 18      Hamilton        Alexander       Federalist Papers       1826
History 816     de Tocqueville  Alexis  Democracy in America    1859    Reeve   Henry   1895
History 25717 731 732 733 734 735 736 890 891 892 893 894 895   Gibbon  Edward  The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire   1974
History 5199    Shackleton      Ernest  South!  1922
History 23      Douglass        Frederick       The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1895
Horror  345     Stoker  Bram    Dracula 1912
Horror  41      Irving  Washington      The Legend of Sleepy Hollow     1859
Humor   972     Bierce  Ambrose The Devil's Dictionary  1914
Humor   308     Jerome  Jerome K.       Three Men in a Boat     1927
Humor   74      Twain   Mark    Adventures of Tom Sawyer        1911
Humor   86      Twain   Mark    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court     1910
Humor   844     Wilde   Oscar   The Importance of Being Ernest  1900
Humor   19942   Voltaire                Candide 1778
Mathematics     201     Abbott  Edwin   Flatland        1926
Mystery 1661    Doyle   Arthur Conan    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes       1930
Non-fiction     575     Bacon   Francis The Essays of Francis Bacon     1626
Non-fiction     1717    Chesterton      G.K.    What's Wrong with the World     1936
Non-fiction     205     Thoreau Henry David     "Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" 1862
Non-fiction     769     Okakura Kakuzo  The Book of Tea 1913
Non-fiction     61      Marx    Karl    Communist Manifesto     1883
Non-fiction     16643   Emerson Ralph Waldo     Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson   1882
Non-fiction     4200    Pepys   Samuel  The Diary of Samuel Pepys       1703
Non-fiction     3755    Paine   Thomas  Common Sense    1809
Poetry  8800    Alighieri       Dante   "The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated"       1321                            Note: multi-file HTML
Poetry  19      Longfellow      Henry Wadsworth Song of Hiawatha        1882
Poetry  20      Milton  John    Paradise Lost   1674
Poetry  11101   Coleridge       Samuel Taylor   The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1834
Poetry  38877   Yeats   W.B.    Poems   1939
Poetry  1322    Whitman Walt    Leaves of Grass 1892
Poetry  16328   Anonymous               Beowulf 1928
Reference       10681   Roget   Peter Mark      Roget's Thesaurus       1869
Reference       1                       Declaration of Independence
Reference       2                       Bill of Rights
Reference       4938                    U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
Religion        17      Smith   Joseph  Book of Mormon  1844
Religion        274     Luther  Martin  Martin Luther's 95 Theses       1546
Religion        10      Anonymous               "The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version"
Religion        7145                    Egyptian Book of the Dead               Budge   E. A. Wallis    1934
Religion        2388                    "The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-G”t‰"         Arnold  Edwin   1904
Science 944     Darwin  Charles Voyage of the Beagle    1882
Science 59      Descartes       RenŽ    Discourse on Method     1650
Theatre 5333    Jonson  Ben     Every Man in his Humor  1637
Western 1300    Grey    Zane    Riders of the Purple Sage                                       Syndicate author


Criteria        Life+70
        English only
        One item per author
        "If the item is part of a set, I included the set (for example, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)"
        "When there are multiple versions, I usually chose the one with the better HTML and images"
        Original publication before 1923
        "Death dates of authors, illustrators & translators: prior to 1944 (life+70)"
        World copyright guidelines: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html#whatpd

Some notable exclusions
        "Sun Tzu, The Art of War"       Translator death date
        "Marcel Proust, Rememberance of Times Past"     Translator death date
        HG Wells        Author Death Date
        Einstein        Author death date
        Machievelli's The Prince        Translator death date
        Peter Pan       Copyright exception in the UK

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