Suggestions please

[k-j]

For a pre-1924 (i.e. out of copyright in the US) text.

[David]

Eh ... what?

[k-j]

An old book I can download for free.

[Ros]

Try Gutenberg. Full of old books you can download for free.

[k-j]

I get all my old books from Gutenberg Ros. What I want is a recommendation.

I'll try again: can someone recommend an old book please.

[Magpie Jane]

Hi there, k-j - a recommendation for you:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Die Wahlverwandtschaften publ. 1809; English translation Elective Affinities publ. 1854.

Good luck.

[k-j]

Thanks Jane

I've been sort of curious about that one for a while. I've heard good things and awful things about it.

I hated Young Werther but have been loving the Faust I've been dipping into in the original.

[Nash]

I think you've read Lovecraft, k-j, if I remember rightly?

Have you read Robert W. Chambers? He was a big influence on HPL. The first four stories in this are excellent and I'm sure you'll recognise some names in there.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8492/8492-h/8492-h.htm

[David]

I was going to say Don Quixote, but something told me you'd read it ... so I found this - viewtopic.php?f=11&t=5868&p=40841&hilit ... tes#p40841

Great list. Turgenev's Bezhin Lea is one of those things I will never get out of my mind.

So ... did you ever get around to The Pickwick Papers? Dicckens does the picaresque, and Positively (so far as I remember) No Pathetic Orphans.

[k-j]

Thanks Nash, that looks great. Will download as soon as I get home from this trip.

David, yes I read Pickwick some years ago. It's good, quite funny in places and of course picaresque and blessedly free of sniveling urchins, but I think I might take a longish break from Dickens now having read Hard Times and Our Mutual Friend in the last year.

[Gbn]

Conrad, heart of darkness..

[annefmoreno]

Many ebook sellers are there just search with the book name you will get a lots of sellers