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

[pynch]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Shandon Classics either stole from Pynch (open it and you'll see his name), or Pynch himself is Shandon Classics.

I’m not, and I would never use that cover style.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by pynch

I’m not, and I would never use that cover style.

Then someone also has the same name as you.

[ATDrake]

X-link to the DRM-free thread for a new StoryBundle:

Devastator Funny Book Bundle 3: The Book Ultimatum curated by the eponymous small publisher, contains humorous fiction and non-fiction; mainly parodies of specialist magazines and self-help books.

[GtrsRGr8]

I have my fingers crossed that I'm posting on the correct thread . . . .

Before I go any further, let me say this: these works are completely free, under the Creative Commons license (source: www.logos.com). Second, the website with them may be of interest primarily to Shakespeare students or scholars.

I just ran across something called the Folger Digital Texts. Someone may have posted something about it before, somewhere on MobileRead, but I could not find it after doing a search.

The Folger Digital Texts is of Shakespeare's works. That's it--no one else's works are included. You may be thinking, "Shakespeare's works are all over the Internet; what's the point in posting a website consisting of them?"

Let me quote from Logos.com:
Shakespeare set the tone for the future of culture and literature, inspiring the subject and themes of Western literature for centuries. But which Shakespeare are you reading? His works have been passed down in various records and editions throughout the centuries—leaving open-ended the question of which is closest to the original. Textual studies on some of the oldest versions have distinguished between the various Quartos (Qq) texts and the collection put together by his colleagues, called the First Folio (F), both surprisingly different in content and language.

In other words, Shakespeare's works have been copied, and shuffled about, and such, so much over the years, that in many situations it is difficult to determine what Shakespeare actually originally wrote and in what form the plays, sonnets, and etc. originally were published. (I have even heard that some of the works attributed to Shakespeare were actually written by someone else. Christopher Marlowe's name, I think that it is, sometimes comes up as the real author of some).

Well, anyway, the good folks at Folger Digital Texts have come along and tried to put things back, as closely as possible, to the way that The Bard originally wrote and published them.

Folger claims that the texts from the Folger Shakespeare Library editions are the #1 Shakespeare texts in U.S. classrooms.

And, with these texts being produced under the Creative Commons license, you can get "free downloads of the source code--providing the basis for new noncommercial Shakespeare projects and apps."

Here is the homepage for the Folger Digital Texts. What might be of the most immediate interest, to interested MobileReaders, however, is this webpage, where the texts for all of Shakespeare's individual works are listed. All of the texts are available for download (you can read them online, too, if you want to) in XML, html, PDF, DOC, and txt formats. There is also a single file shown, at the top of the list, of the complete set of the texts. It, too, may be downloaded in any of the formats that I've listed above.

I do believe that my posting of this, to quote Shakespeare, "is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done." I'm just kidding--Charles Dickens wrote that.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I have my fingers crossed that I'm posting on the correct thread . . . .

Before I go any further, let me say this: these works are completely free, under the Creative Commons license (source: www.logos.com). Second, the website with them may be of interest primarily to Shakespeare students or scholars.

I just ran across something called the Folger Digital Texts. Someone may have posted something about it before, somewhere on MobileRead, but I could not find it after doing a search.

The Folger Digital Texts is of Shakespeare's works. That's it--no one else's works are included. You may be thinking, "Shakespeare's works are all over the Internet; what's the point in posting a website consisting of them?"

Well, anyway, the good folks at Folger Digital Texts have come along and tried to put things back, as closely as possible, to the way that The Bard originally wrote and published them.

I do believe that my posting of this, to quote Shakespeare, "is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done." I'm just kidding--Charles Dickens wrote that.

"way that The Bard originally wrote and published them."

Note the only work we have that Shakespeare actually published was maybe the sonnets.

He died in 1616 and the First Folio was 1623

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

"way that The Bard originally wrote and published them."

Note the only work we have that Shakespeare actually published was maybe the sonnets.

He died in 1616 and the First Folio was 1623

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio

I vaguely remember hearing that, now. He wrote all of those plays, but never bothered to have them published during his lifetime. I guess that he wanted to spend all of his available time doing what he loved (writing and producing) rather than having stuff published.

Genuine thanks for the correction.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I guess that he wanted to spend all of his available time doing what he loved (writing and producing) rather than having stuff published.

The money in playwriting then was in staging the plays, not publishing the plays.

[GA Russell]

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight - Jimmy Breslin - $1.99
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[GA Russell]

The Lords of Discipline - Pat Conroy - $1.99
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[sufue]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey has dropped to $2.99 at Kindle US, no idea for how long.

link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SWV680

Spoiler:

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NOTE: There is another considerably more expensive "anniversary" edition, so make sure you get the right one.

[GA Russell]

Pat Conroy box - $3.99

The Great Santini
The Lords of Discipline
The Prince of Tides

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M365B1Y

[GA Russell]

All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren - $1.99
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*****

Flowers for Algernon - $1.99
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*****

1984 - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/1984-ebook/dp/B003JTHWKU/

[GtrsRGr8]

It seems like the regular freebies that NoiseTrade offers don't get mentioned much. None of them are going to be bestsellers anywhere; most of the authors are probably up-and-comers (to put it kindly). However, they very often cost money at Amazon or elsewhere. I thought that I'd post them, this time, for a change.

They are a couple of fiction books, free from NoiseTrade, but not free elsewhere (as far as I know) at the present moment. Buy at your own risk, but since you don't actually buy them, the only risk is to your time and effort.*

These books do not meet my posting criteria. Mainly because there is a severe shortage of reviews for each one.

Detention Land, by Susan Orion. $2.99 Kindle at Amazon. Only 1 review, but the book was published only last month.

The Dash (Volume 1), by C.J. Duarte. I'm wondering if there's ever going to be a Volume 2, since this one is 6-7 years old and I can't find a volume 2 anywhere (even through the used book dealers' mega book search engine Bookfinder.com). The least expensive copy from Amazon is a physical book (there is no digital edition available) and is $15.95. Don't forget the $3.99 shipping charge.

*NoiseTrade always requests donations to the author. You can leave nothing, however, if you so desire, and they'll still let you have the book.

[Little.Egret]

Free

The Enormous Room (Xist Classics) by e.e. cummings

memoir of 4 months spent in a French prison during WWI

"By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison."

While e.e. cummings would later become famous for his poetry, The Enormous Room (1922) is an interesting and absurd record of his time spent as a prisoner during World War I. Cummings uses ironic humor and poetic language to twist his experience, exploring the familiar horrors of war in a new way.


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010E13WHW/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B010E13WHW/
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B010E13WHW/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings#War_years

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8446

[GtrsRGr8]

Heads up, Prime members.

The Long Way Home, by Karen McQuestion (4.2 stars/1,124 reviews) is free for you, according to an advertisement that I just saw.

Unfortunately, I can't check it to see if it's correct--I let my Prime membership go last July. and the Amazon webpage for the book that I see shows a Kindle price of $4.99 for me.

If this is accurate, you may be able to get the Whispersync deal for only $1.99. The Amazon webpage for the book, that I can access shows a price of $1.99 to add the Audible narration.

If, for some reason, the information that I have given at any point is not correct, would you please make a post to that effect and save others the trouble of having to find out for themselves?

Thanks.