Recommend light fiction on Project Gutenberg.

Cafe Society
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I’ve just gotten an iPhone, so I now have (among its many other functions) a solid ebook reader.

I’d like to give myself a nice selection of fiction to read on the Metro, waiting in lines, whenever I have that free ten minutes. I’d also like it to be cheap, since I’ve just bought an iPhone, and am looking to go frugal for a while.

Project Gutenberg, as a means toward reading good, free classic stories, fits perfectly.

But with apparantly over 20,000* titles on PG itself, and over 100,000* when you bring in partner/affiliate sites, that’s a lot of text.

I’d love some recommendations for fiction that I can pick up and read, but put down easily, without losing the narrative thread. Already bookmarked Peter Pan.

So please give me nice, easy-to-read (public domain) fiction. I’ve read a good bit, but I’m just as open to the obvious choices as I am the obscure.
*Yeah, that includes a LOT of nonfiction, too. But there’s still a good many thousand fiction texts.

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Not from Gutenberg, but a collection of P.G. Wodehouse short stories may be found here. Some of them were new to me, although I’m a Wodehouse fan from way back.

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Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell

Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome

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Oh, my, yes! I didn’t know these were on Gutenberg. They are both great reading.

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Do you like pulp?
http://www.munseys.com/site/home

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Yes, yes, Three Men In a Boat!

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Since those got such a good response, here is another:

Kai Lung’s Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah

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Possibly the funniest book ever! When you’ve read that, pick up Connie Willis’ To Say Nothing of the Dog, although you’ll have to get that in paper AFIAK.