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[slemslempike]

I love my Nook a lot! Edinburgh library's selection of ebooks is pretty good too, so I've got several of those on the go. Currently reading Among Others which I like for the school aspects of it which I suspect is very much not the point.

Anyway - what's on project gutenberg (or other free ebooks sites) that I might like? I found some Wodehouse, over-optimistically downloaded Tristram Shandy and then my mind went completely blank when I tried to think about what else I could possibly read. I don't like Dickens. I have read Austen and most of the Brontes.

Actually, any recommendations for currently >£3 ebooks would also be nice. I can convert Amazon books as well.

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[birdsflying]

There's a lot of recs for project Gutenberg here. It's worth checking out the Australian sure as some things are not on the us. You have to convert from text file on the Aus site though.

I was very pleased to find two more books in the what Katy did series on PG.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

Off the top of my head, George Eliot, Daniel Defoe, R. Austin Freeman, Frances Hodgson Burnett, E Nesbit, John Buchan.

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

There's tons of Wodehouse on gutenberg if that's your thing.

I over-optimistically downloaded Tristram Shandy last week. I got 5% in on a commute, but I'm not sure if I'll get any further.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Just finished Tom and Some Other Girls / A Public School Story - really enjoyed it!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Some from Gutenberg:

Since you're going to Sudan, how about AEW Mason's "The Four Feathers"? While inevitably Victorian in much of its attitudes to race, it is a lot more interesting on issues of colonialism (including Ireland), and also gender, than you'd imagine from the films and its reputation. And it certainly gives you the contemporary British idea of the place.

Totally different, you've probably read Matthew Lewis's "The Monk". If you haven't, you must! Total crack-fic gothic horror, it is absolutely ridiculous and enormously entertaining. Also in the early C19, Mary Hays wonderfully feminist "Memoirs of Emma Courtney" is well worth a read, as is William Godwin's "Caleb Williams".

"Saki". All of him.

Mrs Craik's "John Halifax, Gentleman" was my grandmother's favourite book. An orphan is taken in by a Quaker industrialist and makes his way in the world, finding love and fortune. Surprisingly slashy, even the Victorians suggested that the hero and his best friend are the ones who ought to have married.

"Riders of the Purple Sage", Zane Grey. Can you ask for more than evil Mormons? Admittedly it appears to be set in the same north America as those mammoth books, with the Native American population conspicuous by its absence. However, it has an exciting plot and some interesting stuff on concepts of community on the edge, the vulnerability of people living outside local power structures, and also gender.

[debodacious.livejournal.com]

I got all the Mapp and Lucia books off Amazon for 77p last year. Also some Angela Brazil, E Nesbit, Trollope, Charlotte M Yonge and Frances Hodgson Burnett from PG.