What are the best public domain books that you’ve read? My currently downloaded books include “The Time Machine”, “Pride and Prejudice”, “Frankenstein”, “War and Peace”, “On Liberty”, “Metamorphosis” (all from Librivox), etc. I especially like “Crime and Punishment” and “Brothers Karamazov” and others by Dostoevsky since they delve deeper into human psychology, values, and morality. Also to add, Librivox is so fucking cool and now I have something to listen to on my daily bus/car rides.

  • garden@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 hours ago

    Not a book suggestion, but I cannot recommend Standard Ebooks highly enough as a source of public domain ebooks. Professionally typeset, with consistent standards, all while being free and volunteer-driven!

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      8 hours ago

      Thank you for the link. I didn’t know about Standard Ebooks: looks like a very broad range of material!

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    8 hours ago

    I absolutely adore Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

    As an aside, I tried so hard to read Crime and Punishment(twice), but I don’t think I ever finished it. Or if I did I can’t remember the ending. Maybe I had a bad translation, or maybe I have a short attention span, I don’t know…

    (Sorry for the edit, I hit send before I was done typing)

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    I’m throwing in The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, which I really enjoyed, and The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin, which is a really interesting travel journal. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne is also great. And since you like Dostoevsky, maybe try Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev?

    People always praise Frankenstein, but I thought it was poorly written and frankly nonsensical. Shelley’s The Last Man is better, but a bit dull.

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    11 hours ago

    Frankenstein really is a fantastic read. Anything by Ray Bradbury, I read the short story “The Pedestrian” in school and it had a strong impression on me.

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    12 hours ago

    “Starting forth” the best book to learn about forth or programming in general