On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 11:55:01AM -0700, James Adcock wrote:
Yes, in English
Well, by "In English" I think you are saying "Originally Authored in English" [as opposed to translated into English] which not everything in your list is?
Any. Translated into English is fine.
If you mean "Originally Authored in English" then one might hope for a separate list of "Famous International Literature available in English Translations" -- since a lot of what we take as being "The Great Literature" wasn't actually originally authored in English.
From the PG collection, I excluded several other things because the
I simply mean that the files in this little sub-collection will be in English. So, Newton's Principia Mathematica is excluded. We only have it in Latin. Proust's Rememberance would be great, but the translation is too late for worldwide public domain (as I've defined it). translation was too late (I mean: the translator is dead less than 70 years). I'm sure there might be alternate translations for some, but not in our collection. The most glaring example I found was The Art of War. It's thousands of years old, but we only have the Giles translation, and he was alive until 1958. (We don't have the Calthrop translation, which would otherwise qualify.) -- Greg PS: Yes, these are somewhat arbitrary criteria.