Forgive the messy post, as I am still working on it. As always, please let me know of any errors. Thank you.
[including & through post #90]
There are now 10 fully nominated books.
May 2011
Classic (that is in the public domain in the US or Canada)
[3] -
1984 by George Orwell [siraks, Pablo,voodooblues]
1984 is not PD in the USA yet.
Upload by RWood -
Mobi/PRC &
LRF | Upload by ShellShock -
LRF (enhancements)
Upload by Pablo -
ePub
Spoiler:
from wiki: Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes written 1984) is a 1949 dystopian novel written by George Orwell, about an oligarchical, collectivist society. Life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control. The individual is always subordinated to the state, and it is in part this philosophy which allows the Party to manipulate and control humanity. In the Ministry of Truth, protagonist Winston Smith is a civil servant responsible for perpetuating the Party's propaganda by revising historical records to render the Party omniscient and always correct, yet his meager existence disillusions him to the point of seeking rebellion against Big Brother, eventually leading to his arrest, torture, and reconversion.
[3] -
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy [DixieGal, beppe, jkeene]
Upload by phrodod -
LRF | Multiple formats from
manybooks.net
German uploads by Targor -
ePub -
Mobi/PRC -
LRF
Dutch edition from manybooks |
Dutch LibriVox: free audiobook
LibriVox:
free audiobook (1-8)
[2] -
Madame Bovary by Flaubert Gustave [edbro, Nyssa]
(Translated from the French by Eleanor Marx-Aveling)
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lrf -
Mobi/PRC -
IMP |
gutenberg.org
German upload by Insider -
ePub
LibriVox:
free audiobook
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope [issybird]
At MR as part of the Palliser Omnibus upload by HarryT -
ePub -
Mobi/PRC -
LRF
Upload by Dr. Drib -
LRF
LibriVox:
free audiobook
[3] -
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde [arkietech, Nyssa, caleb72]
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LRF - upload by Jellby -
Mobi/PRC &
ePub
German uploads by ravenne -
LRF -
Mobi/PRC &
ePub
LibriVox:
free audiobook (dramatic reading)
Spoiler:
Amazon.com Review
A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."
As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment."
[2] -
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky [GA Russell, caleb72]
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[3] -
Call of the Wild by Jack London [voodooblues, John F, edbro]
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LRF | MultiFormat at
Fictionwise
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free audiobook
[3] -
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith [Ea, beppe, lila55]
Inkmesh search |
online book
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free audiobook
[2] -
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis [Hamlet53, issybird]
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LRF |
Inkmesh search
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper [John F]
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Spoiler:
"James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, which many consider to be his masterpiece.
The Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826.
It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time. Its narrative flaws were criticized from the start, and its length and elaborately formal prose style have reduced its appeal to later readers. Regardless, The Last of the Mohicans is widely read in American literature courses. This second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy is the best known. The Pathfinder, written 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel.
Cooper named a principal character Uncas after a real person. Uncas was a Mohegan, not a Mohican, and Cooper's usage has helped to confuse the names of two tribes to the present day. When John Uncas, his last surviving male descendant died in 1842, the Newark Daily Advertiser wrote "Last of the Mohegans Gone" lamenting the extinction of the tribe. The writer was not aware that Mohegans still existed then and to the present day.
The story takes place in 1757 during the Seven Years' War (known in America as the French and Indian War), when France and the United Kingdom battled for control of the American and Canadian colonies. During this war, the French often allied themselves with Native American tribes in order to gain an advantage over the British, with unpredictable and often tragic results."
[3] -
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells [JSWolf, Nyssa, siraks]
Upload by HarryT -
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ePub
Upload by crich70 (H.G. Wells Novel Omnibus) -
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ePub
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[3] -
Joan of Arc (The full tiltle is Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc) by Mark Twain [Ron., DixieGal, issybird]
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[3] -
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (warning it's pretty long) [AnemicOak, obs20, Piper_]
Spanish Upload by =X= (Vol 1 & Vol 2) -
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ePub -
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Spanish Upload by Jellby (Illustrated) -
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[2] -
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers [AnemicOak, GA Russell]
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[3] -
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton [AnemicOak, DixieGal, lila55]
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[3] -
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey [GA Russell, DixieGal, JSWolf]
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Upload of two volume collection of Zane Grey's books by crich70 -
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[2] -
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott [Piper_, lila55]
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Upload by Madam Broshkina -
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German Upload by netseeker -
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MOBI/PRC -
LRF
German Upload by brucewelch - both
ePub & Mobi/prc
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free audiobook
Spoiler:
from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanhoe
About
: Ivanhoe is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It was written in 1819, and is set in 12th-century England, and is an example of historical fiction. Ivanhoe is sometimes credited for increasing interest in Romanticism and Medievalism; John Henry Newman claimed that Scott "had first turned men's minds in the direction of the middle ages," while Carlyle and Ruskin made similar claims to Scott's overwhelming influence over the revival based primarily on the publication of this novel.
Plot snippet: Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families at a time when the English nobility was overwhelmingly Norman. It follows the Saxon protagonist, Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who is out of favour with his father for his allegiance to the Norman king, Richard I of England. The story is set in 1194, after the failure of the Third Crusade, when many of the Crusaders were still returning to Europe. King Richard, who had been captured by the Duke of Saxony on his way back, was believed to still be in the arms of his captors. The legendary Robin Hood, initially under the name of Locksley, is also a character in the story, as are his "merry men", including Friar Tuck and less so, Alan-a-Dale; Little John is merely mentioned. The character that Scott gave to Robin Hood in Ivanhoe helped shape the modern notion of this figure as a cheery noble outlaw.
A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne [voodooblues]
Upload by crich70 - A Jules Verne Omnibus -
ePub &
Mobi/PRC
Note that there are
two versions: A Journey to the
Interior of the Earth and A Journey to the
Center of the Earth. See below comment by HarryT on "A Journey to the
Interior of the Earth" :
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Spoiler:
from HarryT: This is the "translation" of the 1864 Verne classic published in England by Griffith and Farran in 1871, and is still the book you'll more than likely get if you go into a book shop today and buy an English-language version of "Journey to the Centre of the Earth".
It's a good story, no doubt about it, but unfortunately it's not the story that Verne wrote. It's a complete re-write, reasonably closely following the plot of the Verne original, but all the details are different. In the original, the scientist who makes the journey into the Earth is "Professor Liedenbrock" and his nephew--the book's narrator--is called "Axel". In this version the scientist has become "Professor von Hardwigg" and his nephew is now English and called "Harry", presumably for the benefit of the book's English audience. In the original, we are shown the details of how the Professor and Axel solve the cypher document which leads to the journey; in this version we simply have:
the Professor began reading the puzzling cryptograph all sorts of ways, according to some theory of his own. Presently, rousing my wandering attention, he dictated one precious attempt to me....
... which turns out to be the solution to it.
The original is better, I think, in all sorts of ways, but this version is interesting to have to see just how much a book can be changed by a process of so-called "translation".
If you want to read a real translation of the Verne original, download the book called "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth"; this is an accurate translation of the French original, with an accurately translated title.
A Journey to the
Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne
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English -
Dutch