FREE/BARGAIN - General and Historical Fiction, Literature - 2016

[Alastair_S]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/Tree-Grows-Bro...dp/B000FCK65W/

As popularised by Bugs Bunny.

[GA Russell]

26 Zane Grey novels - $1.99 total
http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Wester...dp/B002HK3N1E/

[bgalbrecht]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

26 Zane Grey novels - $1.99 total

If you don't mind downloading them individually, you can save yourself $1.99 by downloading them from Project Gutenberg.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

If you don't mind downloading them individually, you can save yourself $1.99 by downloading them from Project Gutenberg.

That's an idea.

And here's another one: There are a lot of freebies available already from Amazon. Try here:

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_s...ey%2Caps%2C295

There may also be some freebies here at Mobileread.

[bgalbrecht]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

That's an idea.

And here's another one: There are a lot of freebies available already from Amazon. Try here:

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_s...ey%2Caps%2C295

There may also be some freebies here at Mobileread.

The Amazon description of one of the books includes:

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

I wonder if this means Amazon regularly grabs the mobi editions from Project Gutenberg and makes them available for free? If so, I wonder how often they look for new editions, or if they just did a one-time import into their system?

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

The Amazon description of one of the books includes:

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

I wonder if this means Amazon regularly grabs the mobi editions from Project Gutenberg and makes them available for free? If so, I wonder how often they look for new editions, or if they just did a one-time import into their system?

That's an interesting question.

Checking the preview on Amazon, I don't see the front matter that Gutenberg uses, unless it's at the end of the book.

[bgalbrecht]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

That's an interesting question.

Checking the preview on Amazon, I don't see the front matter that Gutenberg uses, unless it's at the end of the book.

As long as it's in the public domain, according to the Gutenberg license, you're allowed to strip all the Gutenberg related information. Since Amazon has a process to convert html to Kindle formats, it would be easy enough to automate stripping the Gutenberg pre/post material and regenerate the Kindle ebook. Whether they actually do that, and do it on a regular basis, only Amazon knows.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

As long as it's in the public domain, according to the Gutenberg license, you're allowed to strip all the Gutenberg related information. Since Amazon has a process to convert html to Kindle formats, it would be easy enough to automate stripping the Gutenberg pre/post material and regenerate the Kindle ebook. Whether they actually do that, and do it on a regular basis, only Amazon knows.

Amazon don't do it but the self-publishers do.

They usually add a clickable TOC.

See posts here about weird Greekie names with copyright lines <dead author> 2016.

For example (currently free)

Freckles (Xist Classics) by Gene Stratton-Porter

http://www.amazon.com/Freckles-Xist-...dp/B00XUR383Q/

And collected works for a small sum

http://www.amazon.com/Gene-Stratton-...dp/B01D5FCIQU/

[murg]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

As long as it's in the public domain, according to the Gutenberg license, you're allowed to strip all the Gutenberg related information. Since Amazon has a process to convert html to Kindle formats, it would be easy enough to automate stripping the Gutenberg pre/post material and regenerate the Kindle ebook. Whether they actually do that, and do it on a regular basis, only Amazon knows.

There are situations where PG requires you to strip the Gutenberg material.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by murg

There are situations where PG requires you to strip the Gutenberg material.

Yep.

So if you want to acknowledge their good work you have to use a convoluted method such as giving a link to a web site which says "Gutenberg, Thank You "

[Gardenman]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

26 Zane Grey novels - $1.99 total
http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Wester...dp/B002HK3N1E/

Thank you for the notice. I got them

[phloxy]

The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams

$1.99

Amazon
Kobo
Nook

A black expat writer uncovers a sinister plot to destroy the American civil rights movement in this exceptionally powerful novel, which includes an introduction by bestselling author Walter Mosley.

On a warm spring afternoon in 1964, Max Reddick sits at an outdoor café in Amsterdam, nursing a glass of Pernod. Along with the large doses of morphine running through his veins, the alcohol allows him to forget the painful disease ravaging his body, but it also prompts him to reflect on the circumstances that have brought him to this point—made him who he is today.

From the streets of New York City to the jazz clubs of Paris and Amsterdam, from the battlefields of World War II to the Oval Office, Max’s journey as an African American author and journalist has brought him into the nexus of hypocrisy and duplicity surrounding segregation and civil rights time and again. But nothing he has encountered could have prepared him for the devastating and dangerous truth he now faces.

Through the eyes of Max, with penetrating fictional portraits of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Malcolm X, among other historical figures, author John A. Williams reveals the hope, courage, and bitter disappointment of African American intellectuals in the postwar era.

Infused with powerful artistry and searing anger, as well as insight, humanity, and vision, The Man Who Cried I Am is a modern American classic.

[GtrsRGr8]

In commemoration, observance, or something, of the 400th anniversary of The Bard's death (ack!!!!) coming up real soon, I've been running across quite a few Shakespeare-related items. This is one of them.

It is a play, yes, but it's also a book. A quite substantial book, for that matter, with 219 pages. It's free, in the pdf format, from an outfit called Players-Shakespeare.com.

I know almost nothing about these things, but it seems that this version of Hamlet is modernized and from the "First Folio."

You do have to go through a checkout/shopping cart experience to get this ebook, but it's quick. There is an area to put your credit card information, but you do not have to fill that area in to get this free ebook.

Hope this is a good find.

Title: Hamlet.
Format(s): Pdf.
Author(s): William Shakespeare.
Publisher: Players-Shakespeare.com.
Pages: 219.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): N/A.
Price: $0.00.
Lowest Price at (or through Amazon) if available from there: N/A.
Book Description (from the ebook):
Derived from the OUP First Folio edition . . . . The OUP First Folio texts were originally prepared by Trevor Howard-Hill for use in his single colume concordances to Shakespeare (OUP, 1969f). They have since been reformatted to modern standards and carefully proofread by staff of Oxford University Press' Shakespeare Department for use in the new "Old Spelling" Oxford Shakespeare . . . .
Comments: I believe that this is a legal free download based, in part, upon the fact that inside the book there is this statement: "Distributed by Players-Shakespeare.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License." Visit this webpage for more information about this particular license.
URL: https://players-shakespeare.com/down...-adobe-reader/.

[LovesMacs]

The Iliad, translated by Caroline Alexander, 99 cents!!!

Amazon US, 99 cents

Publisher's blurb:

Spoiler:

With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan War

Composed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion. From the explosive confrontation between Achilles, the greatest warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon, the inept leader of the Greeks, through to its tragic conclusion, The Iliad explores the abiding, blighting facts of war.

Soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished, hero and coward, men, women, young, old—The Iliad evokes in poignant, searing detail the fate of every life ravaged by the Trojan War. And, as told by Homer, this ancient tale of a particular Bronze Age conflict becomes a sublime and sweeping evocation of the destruction of war throughout the ages.

Carved close to the original Greek, acclaimed classicist Caroline Alexander’s new translation is swift and lean, with the driving cadence of its source—a translation epic in scale and yet devastating in its precision and power.

Review
“True to the living word of the original Greek, Caroline Alexander’s new translation invites us to engage directly with this tradition. When I read her verses I can almost hear the music of Homeric performance.” (Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and professor of comparative literature, director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University)

“Caroline Alexander has done admirably in rendering the meaning of the Homeric text faithfully and in suitably dignified language. The format gives a genuine sense of reading a verse epic. Her line-numbers match the Greek, which will make this version convenient for use by college teachers and students.” (M.L. West, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford)

“Caroline Alexander’s Iliad is miraculous . . . Its language conveys the precise meaning of the Greek in a sinewy yet propulsive style . . . In my judgment, this new translation is far superior to the familiar and admired work of Lattimore, Fitzgerald, and Fagles.” (G.W. Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

“This powerful and readable version of the Iliad is modern without sacrificing the accuracy, energy, or the seriousness of the original.” (Library Journal)

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by LovesMacs

The Iliad, translated by Caroline Alexander, 99 cents!!!

Amazon US, 99 cents
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Great find! Thanks.