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Originally Posted by Patricia
I don't see the point of listing things that are not in the public domain.
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Distributed Proofreaders, the major supplier of Project Gutenberg, has several threads discussing which classics are still missing.
The one book that seems to appear on all the lists is:
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (currently [May 2008] in progress at DP, in the first proofreading round)
Some of the rest (in no special order,
comments by the volunteers who listed these):
- Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- Remembrance of things past by Marcel Proust
- The Mathnawi by Jalalu'l-Din Rumi
- The Bostan of Saadi (The Orchard) by Sheikh Saadi of Shiraz
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich and other stories by Leo Tolstoy
- The Bhagavad Gita
- Metamorphoses by Ovid. PG does have a version of the metamorphoses, but a different (and arguably, much preferable) translation by Dryden is currently stuck in a queue somewhere at DP.
- Fear and trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
- La vita nuova by Dante Alighieri . (There's a particular edition I'd like to do. I've bought a copy for scanning the pages that Microsoft missed when they scanned it for TIA).
- Pensées by Blaise Pascal. (PG already has an English translation. There's a particular French edition I'd like to do, one that includes the commentary by Voltaire. I have scans for the missing pages).
- The social contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. On my list to do.
Further lists, including their availability at PG or their status at DP:
Disclaimers:
- Just because a book is being processed at DP doesn't mean you will get to see it soon at PG. The process sometimes takes years.
- Sometimes only the 'wrong' translations are available.