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So! What good book have you read lately that was written before 1923?
Me: The Prisoner of Zenda. Read it!
What’s yours?
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Only two so far this year: Anna Karenina by Tolstoy and Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster. AK was loooonnnnggggg and DLL was quirky and absolutely lovely.
Daddy Long Legs! I’ve been wanting to see the anime adaptation of that for a few weeks now; maybe I’ll read the book until I can get my hands on the show.
I just finished rereading North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell and I fell in love with it all over again.
See, people keep telling me to read North and South but every time I think of it this adaptation comes to mind and while I like Kirstie Alley (sort of), I don’t want her to star in my historical novels. Heh.
Uhhh BEFORE 1923? I’m going to have to say I read too much contemporary stuff it seems!
YUP. Because it has to be copyright free and thus FREE FOR ME TO DOWNLOAD because until I get a job again I have to cut back on buying books. D:
Ooohhhh now THAT is cool.
You didn’t know about public domain books? :O I’ll have to do a post about them, I guess.
Most of my books that I have to read for uni are pre-1923. Robinson Crusoe, Paradise Lost, Mansfield Park, Silas Marner and Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. A few of these should be free to download because they’re classics and they tend to either be free or very cheap. Unfortunately i’m way behind in actually reading them, due to recent laser eye surgery, so I must get a move on! Paradise Lost looks particularly intimidating. Have you ever read it?
No, I haven’t, but I’ve wanted to for a while because people in my classes keep referring to it. But I’m graduating in December and won’t have to worry about peer pressure then! Maybe you could read it first and tell me if it’s good, haha.
I’ve read part of Portrait and really liked it, but then James Joyce is one of my favorite authors, so I’m biased.
(I also had to read Silas Marner for one of my high school English classes and hated it. I think everyone else in my class did, too, including the teacher.)
I read Persuasion by Jane Austen recently, and really enjoyed it. The writing was just fabulous. I also read Little Women, which wasn’t quite as good, but still worth reading.
Aw, you didn’t like Little Women? That’s too bad; it’s one of my favorites. Along with The Secret Garden and Noel Streatfield it helped make my childhood awesome!
I just checked my list of books read this year, and none of them are before 1923. I think the oldest one is around 1975, from when I was reading Tim O’Brien this summer. That’s a little sad.
Yeah, one of the nice things about having an ebook reader is I can read all these older books! Because they’re free. And I like free things.
You like non-fiction– maybe you’d like Isabella Bird’s travel narratives! She was this Victorian lady who traveled around the world and then wrote books about her journeys. She went to Tibet, South America (I think), Japan, etc. They’re a lot of fun. And I think some of them are available in paper format!