Re: Seeking input on "top 100" collection

Excellent, thanks!   A number of those are already on my
list, but most are not.  Many of the ones I didn't include are
ineligible under the self-imposed limitation of "world wide
public domain," which I've implemented as published pre-1923
*and* author/translator/illustrator death+70.  Plus wanting
around 100 items, with no more than one item per book.  Yes,
in English -- everyone else is free to make their own list, of course,
and it can be saved in perpetuity in a few places.  To actually
*make* a downloadable collection, http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/pgiso/

I'll try to work some of these in.  Thanks again, 
  -- Greg

On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 10:24:04AM -0700, James Adcock wrote:
> I did a similar exercise some years ago.  Below find the "obvious" items on
> my list which are not on your list for you to consider.  I have not filtered
> out on "English Only" -- which I think is a bad idea -- I think well-known
> translations need to be included.  These are all on PG but have not
> otherwise been checked for more detailed copyright issues.  Where I have
> only included an author name it is because I would not pretend to be able to
> guess which (only) of that author's works to include. As always, the
> unfortunate reality is that this list of the "Best of the Best" also
> includes many of PG's worst transcribed, and worst html/epub efforts.
> Cheers.
> 
> Aesop: Fables
> 
> Anonymous: The Arabian Nights
> 
> Honore de Balzac: Pere Goriot
> 
> E.M. Berens: Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
> 
> Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes
> 
> Willa Cather: My Antonia
> 
> Anton Chekhov
> 
> G. K. Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday
> 
> James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
> 
> Richard Dana: Two Years Before the Mast
> 
> Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy
> 
> Richard Harding Davis: Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
> 
> Emily Dickinson: Poems by Emily Dickinson
> 
> Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
> 
> Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
> 
> W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
> 
> Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
> 
> F. Scott Fitzgerald
> 
> Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier
> 
> E.M. Forster: A Room with a View
> 
> Sigmund Freud: Dream Psychology
> 
> Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South
> 
> Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls
> 
> (Henry) H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon's Mines
> 
> Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
> 
> O. Henry: The Gift of the Magi
> 
> Herodotus: The Histories
> 
> Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha
> 
> William D. Howells: The Rise of Silas Lapham
> 
> Elbert Hubbard: A Message to Garcia
> 
> Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House
> 
> Sarah Orne Jewett: The Country of the Pointed Firs
> 
> James Weldon Johnson: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
> 
> James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
> 
> Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis
> 
> Andrew Lang: The Colored Fairy Books
> 
> D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
> 
> Sinclair Lewis: Babbitt
> 
> Edward Bulwer Lytton: Last Days of Pompeii
> 
> Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince
> 
> A.E.W. Mason: The Four Feathers
> 
> G. Maspero
> 
> W. Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage
> 
> Guy de Maupassant: Yvette
> 
> Saint Sir Thomas More: Utopia
> 
> Edith Nesbit: The Enchanted Castle
> 
> Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra
> 
> Baroness Emmuska Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel
> 
> Edgar Allan Poe: Collection of Edgar Allan Poe
> 
> Marcel Proust: Swann's Way
> 
> George Rawlinson
> 
> Edmond Rostand: Cyrano De Bergerac
> 
> Rafael Sabatini: Captain Blood
> 
> Rafael Sabatini: Scaramouche
> 
> Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
> 
> William Shakespeare: Macbeth
> 
> George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
> 
> Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
> 
> Joshua Slocum: Sailing Alone Around the World
> 
> Sophocles: Oedipus Trilogy
> 
> Henry Stanton: Sex
> 
> Gertrude Stein: Three Lives
> 
> Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons
> 
> Robert Louis Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
> 
> Bram Stoker: Dracula
> 
> Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin
> 
> Booth Tarkington: The Magnificent Ambersons
> 
> Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
> 
> Sojourner Truth: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
> 
> Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev: Spring Torrents
> 
> Lao Tzu: The Tao Te Ching
> 
> H. G. Wells: The Time Machine
> 
> H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds
> 
> Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence
> 
> Edith Wharton: House of Mirth
> 
> Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
> 
> Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
> 
> Owen Wister: The Virginian
> 
> P. G. Wodehouse: My Man Jeeves
> 
> Émile Zola: Theresa Raquin
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