June 10, 2008 at 11:41 am
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Gutenberg FREE BOOKS:
Coming Home by Edith Wharton http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24349
White Fang by Jack London http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23976
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23979
Spirits in Bondage by C.S. Lewis http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23975
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23980
365 Luncheon Dishes by Anonymous http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24384
The Community Cook Book by Anonymous http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24387
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June 10, 2008 at 11:22 am
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The following are all now sans-copyright, freely available, no DRM, etc. offered by Gutenberg.org. Since they offer txt format, you can download it in a way that makes it readable on most platforms, and easy to transfer to another platform if you need to. Plus, the below were probably on some reading list you were supposed to read at some point anyway…besides being touchstones of our culture.
Common Sense by Thomas Paine http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/147
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/175
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3186
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/174
The Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/128
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March 24, 2008 at 9:38 pm
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GUTENBERG PROMISING looking books:
Egocentric Orbit by John Cory
The Capgras Shift by Sam Vaknin
The Aliens by [pseud.] Murray Leinster
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24518
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca by Homer : http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24856
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December 5, 2007 at 11:16 am
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“The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret” - Unknown
“If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.” - Epictetus
“When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.” - Unknown
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.” - Albert Schweitzer
Albert Einstein: “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
• When we rationalize things we tend to cut ourselves slack and lean towards the option with the least effort.
• The more excuses I make the more tedious it gets, the less polished my skills.
- Baron VC , http://baron.vc/things-that-running-teaches-you-about-life
Everytime money changes hands, the Government gets a little piece of it. In theory, if money changes hands often enough, THE GOVERNMENT GETS ALL OF IT!! -Anonymous
Recent good-looking books from Gutenberg:
A Martian Odyssey by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum > http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23731
They had some Shakespeare and DH Lawrence up recently, too, but I didn’t save the links. Check it out at http://www.gutenberg.org/
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October 31, 2007 at 9:05 pm
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sounds good gutenberg:
Second Sight by Alan Edward Nourse
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22997
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October 12, 2007 at 4:42 pm
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September 25, 2007 at 8:21 am
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September 4, 2007 at 7:50 pm
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The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22456
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection by Alfred Russel Wallace
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22428
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August 25, 2007 at 10:02 am
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A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems by A. B. S. Tennyson
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22322
Oldtown Fireside Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22320
An Essay on Man - Alexander Pope
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2428
The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Homer
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22382
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