06-13-2008, 04:37 PM | #1 |
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Maybe I earned enough Karma this week that somebody will actually care what I think so at risk of exposing far too much about my own personality, here are some things that are needed. No, I didn't bother checking on copyright issues - but at least most of these should be OK.
WANT REAL BAD: Beckett - Waiting for Godot Darwin - The Descent of Man Dumas, Alexandre - Le Reine Margot Foote, Shelby - The Civil War Forster, E. M. - A Passage to India Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Graves, Robert - I, Claudius Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World Machiavelli, Niccolo - The Prince Maurier, Daphne du - Rebecca Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm - The Will to Power Proust, Marcel - Remembrance of Things Past [THE WHOLE THING IN ONE BIT BOOK] Russell - An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited OTHERS NEEDED (MOST OF THESE JUST ROUND OUT COLLECTIONS THAT SOMEONE ALREADY STARTED): Aristophanes - Clouds Aristophanes - The Birds Balzac, Honoré de - Lost Illusions Byron, Lord - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Churchill, Winston - The Second World War Conrad, Joseph - The Shadow Line Defoe, Daniel - Roxana Epictetus - Discourses Erasmus, Desiderius - The Praise of Folly Euripides - Electra Freud, Sigmund - Civilization and Its Discontents Freud, Sigmund - New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Gogol, Nikolay - The Diary of a Madman Hammett, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest - For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest - The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises Herbert, Frank - Dune Ibsen, Henrik - An Enemy of the People Ibsen, Henrik - Ghosts Ibsen, Henrik - Hedda Gabler Ibsen, Henrik - Peer Gynt Ibsen, Henrik - The Master Builder Ibsen, Henrik - The Wild Duck Irving, Washington - Rip Van Winkle James, William - The Principles of Psychology Joyce, James - Finnegan's Wake Juvenal - Satires Kant, Immanuel - The Critique of Judgment Keynes - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird Lewis, Sinclair - Arrowsmith London, Jack - The Iron Heel Mencken, H. L. - The American Language Mill, John Stuart - A System of Logic Moliere - The Misanthrope Moliere - The Miser Moliere - The School for Wives Moliere - The Would-Be Invalid More, Sir Thomas - Epigrammata Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm - Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm - On the Genealogy of Morality O'Neill, Eugene - Anna Christie O'Neill, Eugene - Mourning Becomes Electra O'Neill, Eugene - The Iceman Cometh Plutarch - Lycurgus and Solon Pushkin, Alexander - Eugene Onegin Rand, Ayn - Anthem Rand, Ayn - Atlas Shrugged Rand, Ayn - The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn - The Virtue Of Selfishness Rand, Ayn - We The Living Richardson, Samuel - Clarissa Russell - Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits Russell - The Problems of Philosophy Scott, Sir Walter - Rob Roy Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Adonais Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Ozymandias Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Prometheus Unbound St. Augustine - On Christian Doctrine St. Augustine - On the Teacher St. Augustine - The City of God Steinbeck, John - Of Mice and Men Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath Stephens, James - The Charwoman's Daughter Swift, Jonathan - A Tale of a Tub Swift, Jonathan - Journal to Stella Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Lord Of The Rings Toynbee - A Study of History Toynbee - Civilization on Trial Wells, H G - Tono-Bungay Xenophon - Oeconomicus Last edited by TedPark; 06-14-2008 at 01:31 PM. Reason: forgot the darwin ! DOH!! |
06-13-2008, 04:42 PM | #2 |
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Some very deep readers around here. I'm not one of them.
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06-13-2008, 04:57 PM | #3 |
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gibbon is available from the sony store and from gutenberg. Eugenie Grandet is available from manybooks.net
I suspect if you look around these places, you'll find most of the others as well |
06-13-2008, 05:41 PM | #4 |
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If you look at our upload section then you will find several of the Nietzsches. And I expect to convert the rest before long.
I've done a number of Balzacs, though not the two you mention. I will put them on my very long to-do list. We have some Epictetus. I've done some. so has RWood in his 'Harvard Classics'. I believe that RWood has already uploaded 'The Prince' in one of the Harvard Classics. He has also uploaded Augustine's 'City of God'. Someone has already uploaded Russell's 'Problems of Philosophy.' The Proust: only the original Scott-Moncrieff translation is available. I've done the first two. The whole thing is available in single books from Feedbooks. The files originate from PG and PG Australia. So you could compile them into one volume. I prefer single volumes because the pages turn faster. Becket, Huxley and Waugh are still in copyright, I believe. So is Ayn Rand, who didn't die until 1982. |
06-13-2008, 09:06 PM | #5 |
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I recall seeing several of those in the library here, don't have any of them myself
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06-13-2008, 09:48 PM | #6 | |
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06-13-2008, 10:27 PM | #7 |
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I'm about to upload St Augustine's On Christian Doctrine.
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06-13-2008, 11:30 PM | #8 |
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I have a large part of Mencken's The American Language scanned and converted. I still need to scan the rest and finish the proofing. After that it will be a simple matter to format and post the ebooks. I have posted a few other Mencken books that you may find interesting.
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06-14-2008, 08:41 AM | #9 |
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Best way to get books here is, of course, to create them yourself!
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06-14-2008, 10:26 AM | #10 |
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St Augustine's dialogue 'On the Teacher' [De Magistro] doesn't seem to be available online in an English translation.
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06-14-2008, 01:22 PM | #11 |
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06-14-2008, 01:28 PM | #12 | |
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Also, just in case anybody is stumped - this is not necessarily my list of all time favorites - it is just the list of what I want that is left over from after I downloaded everything else that I wanted that I could find. In fact I found a few more over at Sony just today and will be shortening my list above. |
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06-14-2008, 05:16 PM | #13 |
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Ted, many of these are still in copyright and you should try Sony or elsewhere (see the Wiki page on ebook vendors) for those. Many more are in the public domain and are available in the ebooks section here at MR. If you could pare your list down to the likely public domain titles that you couldn't find here and repost that list, I'd be happy to try to help find and convert those.
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06-14-2008, 07:43 PM | #14 |
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I guess the methods in California differ from the rest of the country and the world. Most people would not respond with a raspberry to one of the finest ebook creators at MobileRead when asking for ebooks.
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06-16-2008, 11:58 AM | #15 |
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Geez! It was a JOKE! Sorry if I offended. (do I get negative karma for that?)
Also - upon other advice above, I have researched better what is public vs. copyrighted. I have actually purchased a few of the ones on my list. I was also able to find a lot of "classics" on Munseys. Not all of them are beautiful nor carefully/specifically formatted for LRF, but there are a lot of "adequate" ones - at least for the time being. I will update my list soon. In the meantime, my most urgent need is for the Ayn Rand books. I expect I will have to pay for them, but I can't seem to find them in any sort of eBook format anywhere. |
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