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Download Top 100 Classic Books Free at Project Gutenberg!
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Baninated
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Nov 13, 2006, 06:19 AM
 
Download Top 100 Classic Books For Free at Project Gutenberg!

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top

Here's the Top 20 to get an idea of which books are available.

Top 100 EBooks yesterday

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (358)
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci (229)
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser (226)
Manual of Surgery by Alexander Miles and Alexis Thomson (225)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (193)
Kamasutra by Vatsyayana (191)
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 by Elbert Hubbard (188)
Great Britain and Her Queen by Annie E. Keeling (186)
How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin (178)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (174)
Ulysses by James Joyce (148)
The Art of War by 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi (145)
The Waif Woman by Robert Louis Stevenson (134)
Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (128)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (125)
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (125)
Story-Lives of Great Musicians by Francis Jameson Rowbotham (124)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (122)
The Mayor of Troy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (122)
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (121)
     
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Nov 13, 2006, 06:25 AM
 
Thank you very much, marden.

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
     
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Nov 13, 2006, 12:16 PM
 
Greatest list, my butt. I see not one mention of Green Eggs and Ham. Please!
     
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Nov 13, 2006, 12:43 PM
 
Green Eggs and Ham is still under copyright, while the titles listed by Project Guttenberg are not (with a minor exception or two possible).
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Nov 13, 2006, 12:57 PM
 
Once downloaded the entire library........14 gigs
Apple Powerbook 17" 1,67 GHz, 2 gig RAM, 100 gig HDD, ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB, Superdrive 8X
     
   
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