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A little "light" reading for anyone who wants to dust off a few of the classics. I just gave up collecting. But there's a bunch more free titles available at the bottom of most of these landing pages. Tons more for $0.49-$0.99 if you really wanted to go crazy.


The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Magi-Henry-ebook/dp/B00QW8ZBCG/ref=mp_s_a_1_16?crid=QQFFZUSF82N7&keywords=B0088Q0F5I%7CB08N4BL8W9%7CB004TPPE4E%7CB07T6XQS2H%7CB00QW8ZBCG%7CB004GHNIRK%7CB009G3T4Y0%7CB002RKRUTU%7CB0084B1P2Y%7CB0084B8RPM%7CB00846SEJQ%7CB08KHH4DV4%7CB00JCDK5ME%7CB0076QWBD0%7CB004GHNIQQ%7CB0084B5C0U&qid=164 9773320&sprefix=b0088q0f5i+b08n4bl8w9+b004tppe4e+b07t6xqs2h+b00qw8zbcg+b004ghnirk+b009g3t4y0+b002rkrutu+b0084b1p2y+b0084b8rpm+b00846sejq+b08khh4dv4+b00jcdk5me+b0076qwbd0+b004ghniqq+b0084b5c0u%2Caps%2C182&sr=8-16 [amazon.com]

The Agatha Christie Collection
https://www.amazon.com/Agatha-Chr...R76B&psc=1

Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs
https://www.amazon.com/Tarzan-Unt...82&sr=8-16

The Cambridge Medieval History Collection compiled by J.B. Bury
https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-...82&sr=8-19

The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs
https://www.amazon.com/Mad-King-E...82&sr=8-18

Pirate Stories (Treasure Island, Peter and Wendy, Captain Blood) (Classic Collections Book 6)
https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Tr...RG53&psc=1

Classic Collections: Stories of Adventure Volume 2 (Around the World in Eighty Days, Ivanhoe, The Last of the Mohicans)
https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Co...HP52&psc=1

The Iliad by Homer
https://www.amazon.com/Iliad-Home...AAMO&psc=1

Father Brown: The Complete Collection (Feathers Classics) by G. K. Chesterton
https://www.amazon.com/Father-Bro...7XCJ&psc=1

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: 176th Anniversary Edition (Illustrated) by Frederick Douglass
https://www.amazon.com/Narrative-...VNMJ&psc=1

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Com...9T4A&psc=1

The Complete Harvard Classics (2022 Edition): All 71 Volumes (The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction)
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-H...Y6YX&psc=1

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 4 (2021 Edition) compiled by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and 4 more
https://www.amazon.com/Masterpiec...82&sr=8-12

On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain
https://www.amazon.com/Decay-Art-...82&sr=8-11

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn Series Book 1)
by Mark Twain
https://www.amazon.com/Adventures...494&sr=8-2

The Bride of Lammermoor. by Sir Walter Scott
https://www.amazon.com/Bride-Lamm...82&sr=8-10

Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius
by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
https://www.amazon.com/Thoughts-M...KGGU&psc=1

The Metropolis by Upton Sinclair
https://www.amazon.com/Metropolis...CR5C&psc=1

The Moneychangers by Upton Sinclair
https://www.amazon.com/Moneychang...182&sr=8-9

Les Misérables (English language) by Victor Hugo
https://www.amazon.com/Mis%C3%A9r...182&sr=8-8

Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
https://www.amazon.com/Lad-Dog-Al...182&sr=8-7

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
https://www.amazon.com/Sons-Lover...182&sr=8-6

War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman by Leo Tolstoy
https://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-...182&sr=8-5 - expired

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
https://www.amazon.com/War-Worlds...182&sr=8-4 - expired

Paradise Lost: With bonus material from The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper
by John Milton
https://www.amazon.com/Paradise-L...182&sr=8-2

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
https://www.amazon.com/David-Copp...182&sr=8-1
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I didn't realize the discussion this book list would generate (silly me!)

But anyone who was drawn to my thread is a well read person who should be fully capable of having a polite conversation even with people who don't share their views.

Please don't ruin everyone else's enjoyment. Say it nicely or don't say it at all.

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04-12-2022 at 01:35 PM.

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04-12-2022 at 01:35 PM.
If you like the classics there are hundreds of free books in formats for any device at Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/
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04-12-2022 at 03:59 PM.
Quote from Gammon :
If you like the classics there are hundreds of free books in formats for any device at Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/
And if you find Gutenberg not formatted nicely, check out https://standardebooks.org/ . They take gutenberg sources and make it nicely formatted for ebook readers
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04-13-2022 at 04:09 AM.
04-13-2022 at 04:09 AM.
Some great books here even though a few have been available for free before. What is most telling is the Complete Harvard Classics —classic works chosen by a former president of Harvard for his students Contrast this literature with the woke nonsense Harvard is indoctrinating its students with today that misrepresents historical fact to promote a political agenda rather than teaching from original sources from which students can make up their own minds.
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04-13-2022 at 06:18 AM.
04-13-2022 at 06:18 AM.
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Some great books here even though a few have been available for free before. What is most telling is the Complete Harvard Classics —classic works chosen by a former president of Harvard for his students
Indeed. I also found the list of Complete Harvard Classics to be quite interesting! Good selection.
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MitchJ
04-13-2022 at 07:16 AM.
04-13-2022 at 07:16 AM.
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius? Is that the less-successful sequel to Meditations?
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MitchJ
04-13-2022 at 07:25 AM.
04-13-2022 at 07:25 AM.
Quote from Redmont :
Some great books here even though a few have been available for free before. What is most telling is the Complete Harvard Classics —classic works chosen by a former president of Harvard for his students Contrast this literature with the woke nonsense Harvard is indoctrinating its students with today that misrepresents historical fact to promote a political agenda rather than teaching from original sources from which students can make up their own minds.
I worked for many years in education in California. What the kids are assigned in English classes has almost nothing to do with excellent writing, or prose, or clear communication or classic literature or anything like that. It's leftist indoctrination. In four years of English, the kids might study one Shakespeare play and maybe Antigone (by Sophocles). The rest is entirely books about racism sexism racism sexism racism sexism. Oh yeah, one popular (among the teachers) book was "The Things They Carried." It's a work of pseudo-fiction about the Vietnam war, sort of in the vein of Apocalypse Now.

But the point is that it's utterly shocking how the canon has already been completely replaced in the California classroom. Probably elsewhere to a lesser degree.
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04-13-2022 at 08:14 AM.
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Quote from MitchJ :
I worked for many years in education in California. What the kids are assigned in English classes has almost nothing to do with excellent writing, or prose, or clear communication or classic literature or anything like that. It's leftist indoctrination. In four years of English, the kids might study one Shakespeare play and maybe Antigone (by Sophocles). The rest is entirely books about racism sexism racism sexism racism sexism. Oh yeah, one popular (among the teachers) book was "The Things They Carried." It's a work of pseudo-fiction about the Vietnam war, sort of in the vein of Apocalypse Now.

But the point is that it's utterly shocking how the canon has already been completely replaced in the California classroom. Probably elsewhere to a lesser degree.
Somewhere along the way "we" have mistakenly decided that educators should be responsible for a child's education. Even though we know it's a system run by a few well meaning &/or excellent teachers dictated to by a whole lot of political & social constraints.

If my mother never gave me another thing, she gave me a love of books. A truly great gift that never stops giving either to me or the people who I infect. And I make it a point to be as contagious as I can be at all times.

Anyone who wants to do civilization a favor might do worse than to share a classic book with a youngster or two.
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04-13-2022 at 01:17 PM.
04-13-2022 at 01:17 PM.
Quote from KayOttik :
Somewhere along the way "we" have mistakenly decided that educators should be responsible for a child's education. Even though we know it's a system run by a few well meaning &/or excellent teachers dictated to by a whole lot of political & social constraints.

If my mother never gave me another thing, she gave me a love of books. A truly great gift that never stops giving either to me or the people who I infect. And I make it a point to be as contagious as I can be at all times.

Anyone who wants to do civilization a favor might do worse than to share a classic book with a youngster or two.
I can't upvote this enough. I wrote a similar thought on Quora in response to someone asking how being an autodidact affected my worldview.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-be...-Johnson-9

The whole thing really applies to this deal, but I'll quote my last line because it, in particular, applies to this deal:

"Education is like a field of gold nuggets. Anyone with the slightest disposition to do so can walk out in that field and start filling his pockets with as much gold as he can carry."

My attitude is that you are in charge of your life (and raising your kids). Experts and "experts" are there to advise you and help you, but they all work "under" you in the sense that you're still the boss. You're still in charge of what you do, and you're still in charge of your own education and you're in charge of educating your kids. Those kids start out with a little responsibility for educating themselves, and it slowly grows to all responsibility.
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04-14-2022 at 04:10 AM.
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Quote from MitchJ :
I worked for many years in education in California. What the kids are assigned in English classes has almost nothing to do with excellent writing, or prose, or clear communication or classic literature or anything like that. It's leftist indoctrination. In four years of English, the kids might study one Shakespeare play and maybe Antigone (by Sophocles). The rest is entirely books about racism sexism racism sexism racism sexism. Oh yeah, one popular (among the teachers) book was "The Things They Carried." It's a work of pseudo-fiction about the Vietnam war, sort of in the vein of Apocalypse Now.

But the point is that it's utterly shocking how the canon has already been completely replaced in the California classroom. Probably elsewhere to a lesser degree.
it's not just California! Parents all over the country got a taste of all of this nonsense because they got to see in all of the Zoom classes the nonsense that their kids were being indoctrinated with. If you are a parent of a school age child and you haven't gotten the memo about what is going on then ask to see your kids homework . How can it hurt.
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04-14-2022 at 05:10 AM.
04-14-2022 at 05:10 AM.
Yikes, speaking of indoctrinated maybe turn off your Fox News for a night?
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mchouse
04-14-2022 at 08:05 PM.
04-14-2022 at 08:05 PM.
Thank you!
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MitchJ
04-14-2022 at 09:44 PM.
04-14-2022 at 09:44 PM.
Quote from si1verfish :
Yikes, speaking of indoctrinated maybe turn off your Fox News for a night?
Yikes indeed. People are waking.
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