This is one aspect of electronic literature that I've really profited from - the availability of public domain classics.
If you like societal comment and non-erotic romance, it seems appropriate to recommend authors such as E M Forster and Jane Austen. You've already written that you enjoyed Sense and Sensibility so there's no reason you wouldn't start working through more Austen novels.
If you do like Sci Fi, you could do worse than dabbling in some H G Wells. I've read two before and I'm just starting my third and I certainly haven't been disappointed.
I can't talk about classics without recommending Dostoyevsky. It's my goal to finish reading all of his novels before I die. I've only read three so far and enjoyed all of them.
Then there's the adventure type classics and there are an abundance of these: Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexander Dumas, John Buchan and Jack London.
I see there have been a couple of haunting/gothic suggestions come through (Lovecraft, Poe, M R James). You could possibly add another work or two:
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The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
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Dracula by Bram Stoker (of course)
Our book club also read
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu and some of us really enjoyed that.
Another book with a fairly heavy atmosphere that I really enjoyed reading was
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
I haven't read everything I've mentioned and (to be honest) I didn't actually like
The Turn of the Screw. However its renown as a classic ghost story is indisputable.
I have to mention also, that when the book club read
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, I was blown away.
Lastly, if you like dystopian classics, let me throw my hat in the ring for
1984 by George Orwell and
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (this one not public domain in English).
In any case, there's so many wonderful books to choose from. I could drop all other books and just read public domain classics for the rest of my life and still got get my fill.
