Re: Seeking input on "top 100" collection

Edith Wharton's Summer is as much a children's book as Madame Bovary, and
just as cheerful.


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Greg Newby <[email protected]> wrote:

> Input/feedback would be welcome.  I'm giving a presentation
> this week on "why you should have a library in your pocket"
> at the Wolfram Data Summit.  I've been working on a special
> collection of around 100 items that could be put on a
> CD/DVD, mobile device, etc. (in different formats: HTML, EPUB,
> or others).  My goal is to have a test version of this
> collection by then.
>
> My listing is below as tab-delimited, and attached as an XLSX.
>
> If you notice any important omissions, please mention them!
> Criteria are:
> - interesting and worthwhile
> - English only
> - coverage of different types of content (i.e., reference, classics,
>    non-fiction...)
> - only one item per author
> - must (probably) be public domain worldwide:
>   - published pre-1923
>   - author, illustrator, translator death dates pre-1944 (life+70)
>
> This turned out to be harder than I thought, but lots of fun.  I
> used our Bookshelves, Top 100, GUTINDEX.ALL, and other sources.
> I occasionally left something out that I thought was better forgotten
> (such as Taylor's "Scientific Management"), and made one or two
> arbitrary choices (such as Twain's "Connecticut Yankee" instead
> of Huck or Tom).
>
> The Genre categories are also somewhat arbitrary.  Most of these have
> a great bibrec in gutenberg.org, but I just used a generic term like
> "fiction" or "history."  Several items could use multiple genres, but
> I am just including one (for example, Oscar Wilde is listed as Humor, not
> Fiction).
>
> Thanks, and happy reading!
>   -- Greg
>
> Project Gutenberg Selections
> The goal of this collection is to identify interesting and important works
> from the Project Gutenberg collection.
> "Every effort was made to identify items that are most likely in the
> public domain worldwide, not just in the US."
>
> Genre   eBook # Title   Author last     Author first etc.       Author
> death    Translator last Translator first etc.   Translator death
>  Notes
> Adventure       1257    Dumas   Alexandre       The Three Musketeers
>  1870
> Adventure       521     Defoe   Daniel  Robinson Crusoe 1731
> Adventure       2701    Melville        Herman  "Moby Dick, or, the Whale"
>      1891
> Adventure       996     Cervantes       Miguel  Don Quixote     1616
> Business        8581    Barnum  P.T.    The Art of Money Getting
>  1891
> Children/youth  271     Sewell  Anna    Black Beauty    1878
> Children/youth  14838   Potter  Beatrix The Tale of Peter Rabbit
>  1943
> Children/youth  166     Wharton Edith   Summer  1937
> Children/youth  113     Burnett Frances Hodges  The Secret Garden
> 1924
> Children/youth  1597    Andersen        Hans Christian  Andersen's Fairy
> Tales  1875
> Children/youth  11171   Stowe   Harriet Beecher "Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young
> Folks' Edition"       1896
> Children/youth  5747    Alger   Horatio Do and Dare: A Brave Boy's Fight
> for Fortune    1899
> Children/youth  19068   Grimm   Jacob   Household Stories by the Brothers
> Grimm 1863
> Children/youth  289     Grahame Kenneth The Wind in the Willows 1932
> Children/youth  55      Baum    L. Frank        The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
>      1919
> Children/youth  503     The Blue Fairy Book     Lang    Andrew  1912
> Children/youth  17412   Hope    Laura Lee       Bobbsey Twins
>                       Syndicate author
> Children/youth  28885   Carroll Lewis   Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
>      1898
> Children/youth  514     Alcott  Louisa May      Little Women    1988
> Children/youth  120     Stevenson       Robert Louis    Treasure Island
> 1894
> Children/youth  35997   Kipling Rudyard Jungle Book     1936
> Children/youth  3005    Appleton        Victor  Tom Swift and his Airship
>                                       Syndicate author
> Children/youth  39784                   Mother Goose
> Children/youth  18732                   Aesop's Fables
> Classics        11000   Clay    Albert Tobias   Gilgamesh       1925
> Classics        7768    Lamb    Charles The Adventures of Ulysses
> 1834
> Classics        2383    Chaucer Geoffrey        Canterbury Tales
>  1400    Purves  David Liang     1873
> Classics        5668    Scott   Jonathan        The Arabian Nights
> Entertainments       1829    Burton  Richard 1890
> Classics        1497    Plato           Republic        -347
> Classics        24269   Homer           The Odyssey of Homer    -650
>  Cowper  William 1800
> Fantasy 829     Swift   Jonathan        Gulliver's Travels      1745
> Fiction 5231    Trollope        Anthony The Way we Live Now     1882
> Fiction 730     Dickens Charles Oliver Twist    1870
> Fiction 1260    Bront‘  Charlotte       Jane Eyre       1855
> Fiction 768     Bront‘  Emily   Wuthering Heights       1848
> Fiction 145     Eliot   George  Middlemarch     1880
> Fiction 14155   Flaubert        Gustave Madame Bovary   1880
> Fiction 209     James   Henry   The Turn of the Screw   1916
> Fiction 215     London  Jack    Call of the Wild        1916
> Fiction 4300    Joyce   James   Ulysses 1941
> Fiction 42671   Austen  Jane    Pride and Prejudice     1817
> Fiction 14591   von Goethe      Johann Wolfgang Faust   1832    Taylor
>  Bayard  1878
> Fiction 39452   Bunyan  John    Pilgrim's Progress      1688
> Fiction 219     Conrad  Joseph  Heart of Darkness       1924
> Fiction 103     Verne   Jules   Around the World in 80 Days     1905
> Fiction 160     Chopin  Kate    Awakening       1904
> Fiction 2600    Tolstoy Leo     War and Peace   1910    Aylmer  Maude
> 1939
> Fiction 45      Montgomery      Lucy Maud       Anne of the Green Gables
>      1942
> Fiction 84      Shelley Mary    Frankenstein    1851
> Fiction 33      Hawthorne       Nathaniel       The Scarlet Letter
>  1864
> Fiction 73      Crane   Stephen The Red Badge of Courage        1900
> Fiction 27      Hardy   Thomas  Far from the Madding Crowd      1928
> Fiction 135     Hugo    Victor  Les MisŽrables  1885
> Fiction 1245    Woolf   Virginia        Night and Day   1941
> Fiction 599     Thackeray       William Makepeace       Vanity Fair
> 1863
> History 18      Hamilton        Alexander       Federalist Papers
> 1826
> History 816     de Tocqueville  Alexis  Democracy in America    1859
>  Reeve   Henry   1895
> History 25717 731 732 733 734 735 736 890 891 892 893 894 895   Gibbon
>  Edward  The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire   1974
> History 5199    Shackleton      Ernest  South!  1922
> History 23      Douglass        Frederick       The Narrative of the Life
> of Frederick Douglass 1895
> Horror  345     Stoker  Bram    Dracula 1912
> Horror  41      Irving  Washington      The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
> 1859
> Humor   972     Bierce  Ambrose The Devil's Dictionary  1914
> Humor   308     Jerome  Jerome K.       Three Men in a Boat     1927
> Humor   74      Twain   Mark    Adventures of Tom Sawyer        1911
> Humor   86      Twain   Mark    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
> Court     1910
> Humor   844     Wilde   Oscar   The Importance of Being Ernest  1900
> Humor   19942   Voltaire                Candide 1778
> Mathematics     201     Abbott  Edwin   Flatland        1926
> Mystery 1661    Doyle   Arthur Conan    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
>       1930
> Non-fiction     575     Bacon   Francis The Essays of Francis Bacon
> 1626
> Non-fiction     1717    Chesterton      G.K.    What's Wrong with the
> World     1936
> Non-fiction     205     Thoreau Henry David     "Walden, and On the Duty
> of Civil Disobedience" 1862
> Non-fiction     769     Okakura Kakuzo  The Book of Tea 1913
> Non-fiction     61      Marx    Karl    Communist Manifesto     1883
> Non-fiction     16643   Emerson Ralph Waldo     Essays by Ralph Waldo
> Emerson   1882
> Non-fiction     4200    Pepys   Samuel  The Diary of Samuel Pepys
> 1703
> Non-fiction     3755    Paine   Thomas  Common Sense    1809
> Poetry  8800    Alighieri       Dante   "The Divine Comedy by Dante,
> Illustrated"       1321                            Note: multi-file HTML
> Poetry  19      Longfellow      Henry Wadsworth Song of Hiawatha
>  1882
> Poetry  20      Milton  John    Paradise Lost   1674
> Poetry  11101   Coleridge       Samuel Taylor   The Rime of the Ancient
> Mariner 1834
> Poetry  38877   Yeats   W.B.    Poems   1939
> Poetry  1322    Whitman Walt    Leaves of Grass 1892
> Poetry  16328   Anonymous               Beowulf 1928
> Reference       10681   Roget   Peter Mark      Roget's Thesaurus
> 1869
> Reference       1                       Declaration of Independence
> Reference       2                       Bill of Rights
> Reference       4938                    U.S. Presidential Inaugural
> Addresses
> Religion        17      Smith   Joseph  Book of Mormon  1844
> Religion        274     Luther  Martin  Martin Luther's 95 Theses
> 1546
> Religion        10      Anonymous               "The Bible, Old and New
> Testaments, King James Version"
> Religion        7145                    Egyptian Book of the Dead
>       Budge   E. A. Wallis    1934
> Religion        2388                    "The Song Celestial; Or,
> Bhagavad-G”t‰"         Arnold  Edwin   1904
> Science 944     Darwin  Charles Voyage of the Beagle    1882
> Science 59      Descartes       RenŽ    Discourse on Method     1650
> Theatre 5333    Jonson  Ben     Every Man in his Humor  1637
> Western 1300    Grey    Zane    Riders of the Purple Sage
>                       Syndicate author
>
>
> Criteria        Life+70
>         English only
>         One item per author
>         "If the item is part of a set, I included the set (for example,
> Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)"
>         "When there are multiple versions, I usually chose the one with
> the better HTML and images"
>         Original publication before 1923
>         "Death dates of authors, illustrators & translators: prior to 1944
> (life+70)"
>         World copyright guidelines:
> http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html#whatpd
>
> Some notable exclusions
>         "Sun Tzu, The Art of War"       Translator death date
>         "Marcel Proust, Rememberance of Times Past"     Translator death
> date
>         HG Wells        Author Death Date
>         Einstein        Author death date
>         Machievelli's The Prince        Translator death date
>         Peter Pan       Copyright exception in the UK
>
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