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One of the interesting things about the computer age is that we can access older stories that we have loved. Many classics are on line. I can find books on the net that I can’t find on my overloaded book shelves.
These books can be downloaded to e-readers. There is audio, too.
The Gutenberg Project collection
http://www.gutenberg.org/...
I just loved these:
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M by Martin Ross and E. Oe. Somerville
http://www.gutenberg.org/...
Further Experiences of an Irish R.M.
http://www.gutenberg.org/...
This list of classics is just a sampling of the interesting books to be found.
The Western World's Greatest Books
http://gutenberg.net.au/...
Some from the list: (I added the addy for a few, but the rest are at the link above)
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Little Women (1868)
http://gutenberg.net.au/...
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Persuasion (1818)
http://gutenberg.net.au/...
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Pride and Prejudice (1813)
http://gutenberg.net.au/...
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Sense and Sensibility (1811)
http://gutenberg.net.au/...
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1891)
http://gutenberg.net.au/...
William Blake (1757-1827) Songs of Innocence and Experience (1789)
http://www.gutenberg.org/...
Anne Brontë (1820-1849) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
http://www.gutenberg.org/...
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) Jane Eyre (1847)
http://www.gutenberg.org/...
Emily Brontë (1818-1848) Wuthering Heights (1847)
http://www.gutenberg.org/...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Robert Browning (1812-1889) The Ring and the Book (1868)
Lord Byron (1788-1824) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812)
Lord Byron (1788-1824) Don Juan (1819)
Lord Byron (1788-1824) Manfred (1817)
Willa Cather (1873-1947) Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Willa Cather (1873-1947) My Antonia (1918)
Willa Cather (1873-1947) O Pioneers! (1913)
Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales (1380)
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) The Moonstone (1868)
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) The Woman in White (1860)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605)
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) Essays (1580)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) Democracy in America (1835)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) A Christmas Carol (1843)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Great Expectations (1861)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Poetry of Emily Dickinson (1890)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) The Count of Monte-Cristo (1845)
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) The Three Musketeers (1844)
George Eliot (1819-1880) Middlemarch (1871)
Euripides (480bc-406bc) The Trojan Women (-415)
Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Tom Jones (1749)
Anne Frank (1929-1945) The Diary of Anne Frank (1952)
John Galsworthy (1867-1933) The Forsyte Saga (1906)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) The House of Seven Gables (1851)
Homer (c700bc-) The Iliad (-500)
Homer (c700bc-) The Odyssey (-800)
Washington Irving (1783-1859) Rip Van Winkle (1819)
Washington Irving (1783-1859) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
James Joyce (1882-1941) Ulysses (1922)
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) The Trial (1925)
John Keats (1795-1821) Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)
John Keats (1795-1821) Ode to a Nightingale (1819)
John Keats (1795-1821) The Eve of St Agnes (1820)
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) The Idylls of the King (1859)
Herman Melville (1819-1891) Moby Dick (1851)
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) On Liberty (1859)
John Milton (1608-1674) Areopagitica (1644)
John Milton (1608-1674) Paradise Lost (1667)
Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) Gone With the Wind (1936)
Mollère (1622-1673) Tartuffe (1669)
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) The Iceman Cometh (1946)
George Orwell (1903-1950) Animal Farm (1945)
George Orwell (1903-1950) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Ovid (43bc-17) Metamorhoses
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Rights of Man (1791)
Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) Eugene Onegin (1833)
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Sonnets to Orpheus (1923)
Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)
Saki (1870-1916) The Open Window (1914)
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Ivanhoe (1820)
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Rob Roy (1817)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) As You Like It (1600)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Julius Caesar (1601)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) King Lear (1605)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Macbeth (1606)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Sonnets (1609)
Sophocles (497bc-406bc) Antigone (-441)
Sophocles (497bc-406bc) Oedipus at Colonus (-401)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Kidnapped (1886)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Treasure Island (1883)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
John Millington Synge (1871-1909) The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Under Milk Wood (1954)
http://gutenberg.net.au/...
Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
Unknown (-) The Seafarer (970)
Unknown (-)The Wanderer (900)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Leaves of Grass (1855)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Lines: Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (1798)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1807)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) The Wild Swans at Coole (1917)
Above are enough riches for many years of reading, but there are many more authors and books at the site.
Children’s books that you loved are there and so much more.
Mary Mapes Dodge Hans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates
http://www.gutenberg.org/...
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) The Wind in the Willows (1908)
http://gutenberg.net.au/...
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
http://www.gutenberg.org/...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
http://www.gutenberg.org/...
This looked interesting:
The Underground Railroad
A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. (English)
http://www.gutenberg.org/...
What are your favorite classics or older books that can be found for free?
Diaries of the Week:
Write On! Playing in the Minors
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
http://www.dailykos.com/...
SNLC, Vol. CDLXIV / SN@TO 25: Iolantha/Bluebeard's Castle Edition
by chingchongchinaman
http://www.dailykos.com/...
NOTE: Such good news about our leader at Readers & Book Lovers, Limelite. She is home from surgery and the prognosis for the cancer is remission. She now has to heal for several weeks and do a bit more chemo plus a non chemo drug trial. What a relief! I am sending best wishes and {{{{{{HUGS}}}}}} her way.
NOTE:
plf515 is taking a break from WAYR. I am sending him best wishes and hoping he will be back soon.