I need some good books for to read on a computer. I can’t access other sites without more work than I want to do. So, if you know of any good classics, please help me out.
I am reading Anna Karenina right now. More of that caliber would be nice.
GQ? IMHO? dunno…
Don’t miss Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities and Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Great stuff.
If you like a novel with a strong dose of social commentary, i highly recommend The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. If you have an mp3 player, it’s also available as an audio book. Pretty big file to download, though.
I’m a big fan of Mark Twain. I like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and, for a very funny mixture of fact, fiction, and downright tall tales, i get a really big laugh out of Roughing It.
One of my pet projects is to plug Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It is well regarded as a historical document of American abolitionism, but is often derided as poor literature. I think it deserves better press, so i’m going to recommend it.
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I just noticed that you asked for novels on par with Anna Karenina.
Well, i think my recommendations are just as good in their own way, but the style is different, to say the least. May not be what you’re looking for.
Try Crime and Punishment (by Fyodor Dostoyevsky) on Gutenberg:
The more I read of the book, the less likely I think it will be to find something that truly rivals it. I’m look for a pleasant diversion, so I’m sure at least one of the books you cited will be good enough to satisfy me. No real stylistic preference, other than coherency… which I’ve noticed is sometimes a problem in the translated texts, especially anything science related.
Anyway, thanks!
Vanity Fair
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Nicholas Nickleby