I'm talking about the CLASSICS!
2007-10-25 15:16:04 · 6 answers · asked by Mr. Seymour Cake 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
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I checked they have 9 forms of Cinderella, Edgar Allen Poe's works, A biography on Martin Luther King and books by Martin Luther, author of the 2nd book ever published (the first was the bible) and the Protestant Reformation.
I have also found ebooks via Limewire's network however there could be copy write issues with those books.
2007-10-25 15:20:03 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Between Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a and http://www.classicsarchive.com/index.php (which allows you to download classic, copyright free books in the Adobe reader format), you should be able to get an amazing array of books.
You should be able to find anything from Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. You'll find most, if not all, of Charles Dickens' works and all of Jane Austen's novels.
You can download Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte or Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte as well as The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
William Shakespeare's plays are available, as are Grimm's Fairy Tales and the Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
There's Aesop and Leo Tolstoy and Mark Twain and Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and so many more.
Enjoy!
2007-10-25 17:17:09 · answer #2 · answered by ck1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've got several volumes of "the Classics", American and otherwise, as a result of my mother's saving hers and my purchase of the Encyclopedia Britannica back about 20 years ago, and I love reading books much more than something on a screen, but then, the books I have weren't free, so, . . .. Maybe somebody around you, even a library, has editions of "the Classics", and you could borrow them. It'd be much better for your eyes. God Bless you.
2007-10-25 15:26:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just a few suggestions from two very different, but two of my favorite, authors who are more classic, but not considered "ancient" literature, I believe (I don't know how to italicize in this box, so please forgive the quotes):
Maugham
"The Moon and Sixpence"
"Theatre"
"Of Human Bondage"
Faulkner
"As I Lay Dying"
"Sanctuary"
"Light In August"
2007-10-25 16:58:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
peter pan is one of my favourite reads. http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=34649&pageno=7
it's such a young, whimsical story and presented in a brilliant manner. it makes me long for my own childhood. but if you want something more grown up, project gutenberg's site has long list of books to download. http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
enjoy!!!
2007-10-25 15:24:44 · answer #5 · answered by Kate 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cinderella
2007-10-25 15:18:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋