[HarryT]

As many readers of this forum will be aware, "Project Gutenberg" offer a vast range of public domain books (currently about 50,000, I believe). Most of these are by authors who are long forgotten today.

In order to perhaps inspire a few nice uploads to the "Book Uploads" section, does anyone have any particular recommendations of books or authors that are perhaps not very well known today, but whch are still worth reading?

I'd like to start off by recommending "H. Rider Haggard", who if remembered at all today is only known for a couple of his books which have been made into well-known movies - "King Solomon's Mines" and "She". Haggard wrote literally dozens and dozens of adventure stories - the majority set in Africa, where he spent most of his life. He is, IMHO, the equal of any modern "thriller" writer and is well worth a read.

Many of his books will strike the modern reader as distinctly "politically incorrect", reflecting as they do, very much the social attitudes of the British Empire in which he lived, but if you can accept him as a product of his times, rather than judging him by today's standards, he is a superb author.

I'll put together an anthology of some of his better-known books and upload it in the next day or two.