Re: Seeking input on "top 100" collection

On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 11:55:01AM -0700, James Adcock wrote:
> >Yes, in English
> 
> Well, by "In English" I think you are saying "Originally Authored in
> English" [as opposed to translated into English] which not everything in
> your list is?

Any.  Translated into English is fine.

> If you mean "Originally Authored in English" then one might hope for a
> separate list of "Famous International Literature available in English
> Translations" -- since a lot   of what we take as being "The Great
> Literature" wasn't actually originally authored in English.

I simply mean that the files in this little sub-collection will be in
English.  So, Newton's Principia Mathematica is excluded.  We only
have it in Latin.

Proust's Rememberance would be great, but the translation is too late
for worldwide public domain (as I've defined it).

From the PG collection, I excluded several other things because the
translation was too late (I mean: the translator is dead less than 70
years).  I'm sure there might be alternate translations for some, but
not in our collection.

The most glaring example I found was The Art of War.  It's thousands
of years old, but we only have the Giles translation, and he was alive
until 1958.  (We don't have the Calthrop translation, which would
otherwise qualify.)

  -- Greg

PS: Yes, these are somewhat arbitrary criteria.
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