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What are the best public domain books you've read? (lemmy.zip)

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What are the best public domain books that you've read? My currently downloaded books include "The Time Machine", "Pride and Prejudice", "Frankenstein", "War and Peace", "On Liberty", "Metamorphosis" (all from Librivox), etc. I especially like "Crime and Punishment" and "Brothers Karamazov" and others by Dostoevsky since they delve deeper into human psychology, values, and morality. Also to add, Librivox is so fucking cool and now I have something to listen to on my daily bus/car rides.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

My fiancée absolutely loves the Count of Monte Cristo. I have not yet read it.

I like Lovecraft's stories.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

It's great, but the translation in public domain is not as good as the one by Robin Buss in recent years. I think some translations even ignore large parts of the book, e.g. the opium-smoking harem part. That's the general issue with translated foreign language books from the 1800s/early 1900s.