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The Iliad by Homer (930) (and Odyssey)
Also you have a misspelling on the home page:
Get automtically[sic] notified when we publish new eBooks.
automatically
Thanks for your efforts. This is great.
Thanks thanig. It’s your lucky day. The Iliad is coming next.
And thanks for reporting the typo. I’ll be havnig a stern word with my spell checker about that.
If you add the search facility of your website on the home page it would facilitate the readers a lot. I am very impressed by your efforts and wish your success.
Thanks for your feedback ayaish. I’ll certainly look at adding search in the future.
Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” “Hamlet,” “The Merchant of Venice,” “The Tempest”
Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot” and “The Brothers Karamazov”
And are there any plans to do any short stories? (like Poe, Hawthorne, Melville…oh! Moby Dick would be another suggestion)
- oh and “Great” is spelled “Greate” on the front page of the site (not blog). =)
thanks!
The Dostoevskys are on there way (an old favorite of mine). Shakespeare is a little more challenging, publishing wise, but I’ll definitely get to them at some stage. I’ll definitely look at the short stories too.
Thanks for the quick response. Umm…but can I make one more tiny little request?
On the file names themselves, can you put in the author’s name? So…instead of just “Great Expectations.pdf”, can it be “Charles Dickens - Great Expectaions.pdf”? Just the last name would be awesome…actually I think maybe just having the last name would be better? Or at least the last name before the first name. I don’t know. I’ll be happy with whatever you choose.
I’m finding that organizing all of these fine books would be better with the author’s name in the file name and I’ve been renaming each and every file I’ve downloaded…which has taken a while! I don’t want you to do the same so my request would of course only pertain to future releases. Thank you so much for all your work!
Thanks Michael. I’ll have to consider that for the future releases.
how about One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
Fascinating read
Aristotle’s Poetics and other great philosophical works.
Murrizzle, One Hundred Years of Solitude is still under copyright so I can’t publish it here, unfortunately. It was a great read, yeah.
Would you please list the names of the tanslators, when they apply, in the pdf texts and on the list page? Also, a cover page in the pdf would be nice, especially if you included the original publication date.
I agree with lambton; philosophical texts would be great additions. Check out http://www.earlymoderntexts.com for a good list of essential modern texts. As for the ancient stuff, the University of Adelaide e-library has solid translations, especially of Aristotle. http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/
Keep up the good work. I know a lot of people that will like the easier-to-read formats.
Thanks srelliorm. These are great links.
Srelliorm, the suggestion you made on including the translator’s name and a publication date is a good one. I’ll do that with the next batch of books. And, will eventually work my way back through the existing boooks.
Portrait of the Artist or Ulysses. For the usual reasons.
Thanks Burtz87. Ulysses is just about ready to go live — next few weeks. I’ll add ‘Portrait of an Artist …’ on the list for the future.
I have to recommend Franz Kafka. I’m not associated with an institution of learning, but I just read The Metamorphosis again recently and it’s fantastic. I’d love a high-quality digital edition. And both The Metamorphosis and The Trial are available in English through Project Gutenberg.
On a more critical note:
You shouldn’t restrict you recommendations input to members of wordpress only. Please put a contact e-mail or a web form (with CAPTCHA, or whatever to prevent spam) up so people can still make recommendations without signing up for a wordpress account they’ll never use (like I just did). I realize this site is probably auto-generated from the wordpress site, but you do have the domain planetebook.com and I tried e-mailing both “info” and “webmaster” at that domain and the both bounced. You should at least have a working webmaster e-mail if you own that domain. I’m happy to help if you’d like advice in setting any of that up.
Cheers,
Colin Sheaff
Selfsimilar, thanks for your feedback on the site. I’m somewhat limited with what I can do right now. But there are improvements coming that should make it easier.
On your book suggestions. I’m big fan of Kafka too. Both The Trial and The Metamorphosis are almost finished and will be on the site within the next month.
Anna Karenina please if you have not already begun to prepare it.
Thanks.
Man Who Laughs, Victor Hugo, and Catch-22, Joseph Heller
jane austen, persuasion
Wuthering Heights!
I love this site.
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