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message 1: by [deleted user] (last edited Aug 30, 2010 05:05AM) (new)

Here’s a quick baker’s dozen of some of the fantastic books available through Project Gutenberg:

1. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle: download it at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2852

2. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin: download it at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148

3. Walden by Henry David Thoreau: download it at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/205

4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: download it at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1342

5. The Voyage of the Beagle - A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World by Charles Darwin: download it at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/944

6. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery: download it at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/45

7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: download it at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1260

8. Dracula by Bram Stoker: download it at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/345

9. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: download it at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/76

10. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens: download it at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/46

11. Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm: download it at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2591

12. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka: download it at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5200

And as a special bonus, you could also try some or all of the titles in the Harvard Classics bookshelf at http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard... (for a real challenge)

Happy reading!

Credit for the original of this list: Dria (see also "Credits and acknowledgements").


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