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I mentioned the other day that I was spending some time at the Gutenberg Project with varying results.
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
Top 100 books…changes from day to day:
https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
Some of my favorites from the top list:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1410)
Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville (636)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (498)
War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy (498)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (494)
The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas (429)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (410)
Ulysses by James Joyce (407)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (404)
A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens (401)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (372)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (323)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (309)
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (306)
Poems by Wilfred Owen (269)
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (247)
The Iliad by Homer (240)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (206)
Middlemarch by George Eliot (182)
In Mr. Knox's Country by Martin Ross and E. Oe. Somerville (178)
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They, also, have a list of the greatest books which is interesting: Austen, Dickens, Cather, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Conrad, Chekhov, Dumas to mention just a few.
http://gutenberg.net.au/greatest-books-a.html
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I enjoyed some Wooster and Jeeves stories by Wodehouse the other day.
I am thinking about reading the following: (I have read the first one and watched a movie of it)
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38108/38108-h/38108-h.htm
Further Experiences of an Irish R.M.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38108/38108-h/38108-h.htm
In Mr. Knox's Country
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38062/38062-h/38062-h.htm
Have you tried any stories at the Project?
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