06-22-2008, 10:35 PM | #1 |
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I started another thread in a different forum but have abandoned it because I decided it was too egocentric - all about what "I" wanted. So I am taking another approach and posting here.
I have recently been enamored of determining the mother of all lists of "classics" and putting them all in my Sony Reader. Loading the Harvard Classics was a great start. I have also combed through other well-regarded lists of "classics", "great books", "western canon", etc. I generated a merged list of all these things. From that merged list, one can sift and sort in various ways. Here is my first short list. This list is all the items from my huge list that are NOT available on MobileRead, yet ARE available from Project Gutenberg or other good sources. These are not necessarily my favorites - simply things that should be here to round out what we can. For anybody looking for a book to try to create, this is a good place to start. Aristophanes - Clouds Bennett, Arnold - The Old Wives' Tale Calderón de la Barca - Life Is a Dream Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard (in Plays, Second Series) Chekhov, Anton - The Seagull Chekhov, Anton - The Three Sisters (in Plays, Second Series) Erasmus, Desiderius - The Praise of Folly Goldsmith, Oliver - The Vicar of Wakefield Herodotus - Histories Huygens - Treatise on Light Irving, Washington - Rip Van Winkle (in The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon) Johnson, Samuel - A Grammar of the English Tongue Nash, Thomas - The Unfortunate Traveller Pushkin, Alexander - Eugene Onegin Sanger, Margaret - The Pivot of Civilization Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism Strindberg, August - Miss Julie (in Plays, Second Series) Tacitus - Agricola Thucydides - The History of the Peloponnesian War Wollstonecraft, Mary - A Vindication of the Rights of Women |
06-22-2008, 10:39 PM | #2 |
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I'd be willing to take on Rip Van Winkle. I mean, the Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.
I just need to turn it into a prc ... right?? Last edited by RickyMaveety; 06-22-2008 at 10:42 PM. |
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06-22-2008, 10:42 PM | #3 |
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Here is another list. It is really more for the Gutenbergers - in that there is nothing WE can really do about it. This is a list of things that are missing from PG that really ought to be there.
I obtained this list by checking my huge merged list against PG. All of these authors are already well represented within PG, yet these particular works are missing. In many cases they are a missing part of a set. In other cases, the work identified is actually more famous or more seminal than other works that PG does have. If anybody is lurking here from PG, I would think working on these should be a relatively high priority. This list is "only" 130 entries - and given the bazillions of files they already have, this is an amazingly short "to do" list. Relatively speaking! Aquinas, Thomas - Treatise on Law Bergson - An Introduction to Metaphysics Bergson - Creative Evolution Bergson - Matter and Memory Bergson - The Two Sources of Morality and Religion Bergson - Time and Free Will Boswell, James - Boswell's London Journal: 1762-1763 Cather, Willa - A Lost Lady Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop Chekhov, Anton - The Kiss Cicero - Academics Cicero - On Duties Cicero - On the Ends of Good and Evil Cicero - On the Nature of the Gods Cicero - Orations Against Catiline Cicero - Philippics Cicero - Stoic Paradoxes Cicero - The Laws Cicero - The Republic Cicero - Tusculan Disputations Crane, Stephen - The Blue Hotel Dante - On Monarchy Dante - The New Life Descartes - Objections Against the Meditations and Replies Descartes - The Geometry Dewey - Experience and Education Dewey - Experience and Nature Dewey - How We Think Dewey - Logic: The Theory of Inquiry Donne, John - A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy Einstein - On the Method of Theoretical Physics Einstein - The Evolution of Physics Einstein - The Meaning of Relativity Eliot, T. S. - In The Sacred Wood Eliot, T. S. - Tradition and Individual Talent Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Journal Erasmus, Desiderius - De Copia Verborum Erasmus, Desiderius - De Ratione Studii Faraday - Experimental Researches in Electricity Flaubert, Gustave - A Sentimental Education Ford, Ford Madox - Parade's End Freud, Sigmund - Civilization and Its Discontents Freud, Sigmund - New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis Freud, Sigmund - The Future of an Illusion Glasgow, Ellen - Barren Ground Glasgow, Ellen - Vein of Iron Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Elective Affinities Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Poetry and Truth Gogol, Nikolay - The Diary of a Madman Goncharov, Ivan - Oblomovka Gorky, Maxim - The Artamonov Business Haywood, Eliza - Love in Excess Hodgson, William Hope - The House on the Borderland Huizinga - The Waning of the Middle Ages Hume - History of England James, William - Essays in Radical Empiricism James, William - The Principles of Psychology Johnson, Samuel - Dictionary Joyce, James - Finnegan's Wake Kafka, Franz - Amerika Kafka, Franz - The Castle Kant, Immanuel - Perpetual Peace Kant, Immanuel - Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics Kant, Immanuel - The Science of Right Keynes - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money Lagerlöf, Selma - Gösta Berling's Saga LeFanu, Joseph Sheridan - In a Glass Darkly (5 stories) Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics Leibniz - Monadology Leibniz - New Essays Concerning Human Understanding Lewis, Sinclair - Arrowsmith Luther - Three Treatises Marx and Engels - Capital Maupassant, Guy de - Two Friends Maupassant, Guy de - Walter Schnaffs' Adventure Mill, John Stuart - A System of Logic Moliere - Don Juan Moliere - The Critique of the School for Wives Moliere - The Would-Be Gentleman More, Sir Thomas - Epigrammata Newton - Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm - On the Genealogy of Morality O'Neill, Eugene - Desire Under the Elms O'Neill, Eugene - Mourning Becomes Electra O'Neill, Eugene - Strange Interlude O'Neill, Eugene - The Iceman Cometh Ovid - Art of Love Plautus - Pseudolus Pliny - Historia Naturalis Plutarch - Lycurgus and Solon Plutarch - Moralia Poincare - Science and Hypothesis or Method Pope, Alexander - (Horatian) Satires Racine, Jean - Andromache Racine, Jean - Berenice Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - Julie; or the New Eloise Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - On Political Economy Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - Reveries of a Solitary Walker Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - The Social Contract Russell, Bertrand - An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth Russell, Bertrand - Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits Saki - The Open Window Santayana - Persons and Places Santayana - Skepticism and Animal Faith Saxo Grammaticus - Gesta Danorum, Books 10-16 (medieval) Schiller - On Naive and Sentimental Poetry Shaw, George Bernard - Saint Joan Shaw, George Bernard - Widower's Houses Smollett, Tobias George - Humphrey Clinker St. Augustine - On the Teacher Stein, Gertrude - The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas Stein, Gertrude - The Making of Americans Stephens, James - The Charwoman's Daughter Strindberg, August - By the Open Sea Strindberg, August - The People of Hemsö Strindberg, August - The Red Room Tolstoy, Leo - Ivan the Fool Tolstoy, Leo - What is Art? Toynbee - A Study of History Toynbee - Civilization on Trial Turgenev, Ivan - King Lear of the Steppes Whitehead - Adventures of Ideas Whitehead - An Introduction to Mathematics Whitehead - Science and the Modern World Whitehead - The Aims of Education and Other Essays Zola, Émile - Drunkard Zola, Émile - La Bête Humaine Zola, Émile - Nana Zola, Émile - Thérèse Raquin |
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And now - the most curious list of all. Here is a short list of titles that is on almost everybody's short list of great works. None of these are at PG. Even curiouser, none of these authors are even represented.
Another thing for the Gutenbergers to contemplate. Baudelaire, Charles - The Flowers of Evil Bentham - Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Bentham - Theory of Fictions Euclid - Elements Galileo - Concerning the Two New Sciences Galileo - Starry Messenger (sidereus nuntius?) Hegel - The Philosophy of Right Heisenberg - Physics and Philosophy Hippocrates - Hippocratic Writings Juvenal - Satires Kepler - Astronomia Nova Kepler - Epitome of Copernican Astronomy Kepler - The Harmonies of the World Kierkegaard, Søren - Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, Søren - The Sickness unto Death Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de - Dangerous Liaisons Maritain - Art and Scholasticism Maritain - The Degrees of Knowledge Maritain - The Rights of Man and Natural Law Maritain - True Humanism Sartre - Being and Nothingness Sartre - Nausea Sartre - No Exit Solzhenitsyn - Cancer Ward Solzhenitsyn - The First Circle |
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Finally, a disclaimer. I was able to automate some of this, but there was still a lot of handwork and eyeballing. So while "99%" accurate, there are bound to be a few errors or oversights on these lists. But you will at least get the idea.
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I've started working on the Sketchbook .... so aside from reformatting it and reading through it to make certain there are no errors ... is there anything else I need to do??
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06-22-2008, 11:23 PM | #7 |
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I don't know about PRC or any other format - I need it in LRF. I haven't looked at it at all, so don't know for sure, but I think there are multiple short stories or verses in there. It would then need a TOC of links.
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It is reasonable to expect to find works by Baudelaire, Bentham, Euclid, Galileo, Hegel, Hippocrates, Juvenal, Kepler, Kierkegaard, and Laclos in some online archive such as Project Gutenberg. Note that although the original works may be out of copyright, English translations might still be copyrighted, though. As for the others:
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However, I can and will get it from txt into prc. I can also produce a TOC, but again .... I have no idea (since I have only created PRC) how to get it into the format that you specifically want. |
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I know HarryT has a primer somewhere around but I can't find it. I'll keep looking.
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The workflow I've been using is described at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...44&postcount=4 I used Harry T's two excellent guides to Book Designer and MobiPocket Creator, though I did discover that there are a few tips in the book building thread that one needs to know about. |
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Do you know what I want as an ebook?
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My fantasy - if I was Bill Gates I would buy up the copyright to a set of current text books on every school/college/university subject in (say) four major languages, and then release them online for free in a format (rtf?) that people in even the poorest communities all over the world would be able to access.
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Mighty big word for such a little puppy but I can see why you're into it (I had to look it up myself).
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