Your absolute no-miss books in the public domain - Page 4

spellbanisher · 06-07-2013, 05:12 PM

My favorite pd books

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Sister Carrie, The Financier, and The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
A Pair of Blue Eyes and Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Red and the Black by Stendahl
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

I also really like A Portrait of the Artist of as a Young Man and Dubliners by James Joyce, but i probably wouldn't recommend them to most people.

I'm also a fan of Russian literature such as Crime and Punishment and Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Fathers and Son by Ivan Turgenev, but i wouldn't recommend the public domain Constance Garnett translations.

fantasyfan · 06-08-2013, 09:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pdurrant

N.B. H. Beam Piper's works are only PD in USA, and then only some of them.

Here's the list of PD books by H.Beam Piper cleared through Project Gutenberg:

http://durendal.org/hbp.html

crash1211 · 06-14-2013, 12:45 PM

Just a few I can think of from the top of my head.

The Jungle Book
Crime and Punishment
The Canterfield Ghost
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories
Dracula
A Tale of Two Cities
Treasure Island

JSWolf · 06-14-2013, 12:53 PM

A no-miss public domain book is the unabridged version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. This is the one with the nude water pouring scene that's been cut from most editions.

See the thread on the twenty worst covers to see what I mean.

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06-07-2013, 05:12 PM	#46
spellbanisher Guru Posts: 826 Karma: 6566849 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Bay Area Device: kindle keyboard, kindle fire hd, S4, Nook hd+	My favorite pd books Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham Sister Carrie, The Financier, and The Titan by Theodore Dreiser Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte O Pioneers! by Willa Cather A Pair of Blue Eyes and Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The Red and the Black by Stendahl Les Miserables by Victor Hugo I also really like A Portrait of the Artist of as a Young Man and Dubliners by James Joyce, but i probably wouldn't recommend them to most people. I'm also a fan of Russian literature such as Crime and Punishment and Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Fathers and Son by Ivan Turgenev, but i wouldn't recommend the public domain Constance Garnett translations.

06-14-2013, 12:45 PM	#48
crash1211 Member Posts: 21 Karma: 500 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Houma, Louisiana Device: Sony PRS-600, Entourage Edge, Nook Simple Touch, iPad2, Kindle 4	Just a few I can think of from the top of my head. The Jungle Book Crime and Punishment The Canterfield Ghost The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories Dracula A Tale of Two Cities Treasure Island

06-14-2013, 12:53 PM	#49
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 79,756 Karma: 145864619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	A no-miss public domain book is the unabridged version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. This is the one with the nude water pouring scene that's been cut from most editions. See the thread on the twenty worst covers to see what I mean.

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