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The first three are new releases. The rest were just discounted to $0.00.
The J. S. Fletcher Collection
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War by various authors
Stoic Six Pack 9 - The Presocratics (Illustrated) by various authors
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
Beauty and the Beast – All Four Versions by various authors
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First two were released today; the others are temporarily marked down to $0.00.
H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
Jane Austen: The Complete Novels
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The publisher Gianluca has marked down a few dozen books to $0.00 today. The book covers are not fancy, but the content appears to be fine.
After downloading the ones you want, be sure to check those pages again later, or tomorrow, in case they mark down more books. Last time they did this, there were about 200 free books.
New releases of old books in the public domain.
The Art of War: The Strategy of Sun Tzu by Sun Tzu
The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill
Anne of Green Gables Collection by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Temporarily marked down to FREE:
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
At the Villa Rose by A. E. W. Mason
Frankenstein and the Critics: Includes unabridged Frankenstein 1818 by Mary Shelley and other authors
A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe
The Complete Works of Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
As A Man Thinketh by James Allen
Saurev, here is a great place for promoting your book that is priced at $0.99: Free and inexpensive Kindle booksOur little corner of goodreads is a group of readers sharing *free* books we've found. We hope not to be flooded with authors' advertisements.
A classic novel:
Middlemarch by George Eliot
No more just-marked-down classics found, so here are a couple of academic texts that are now free:
Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity by Jennifer Barry
Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema by Christina Klein
Thanks for moving your post, Saurev.
Recently released or recently discounted classics, all free:
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Peter and Wendy, or, Peter Pan (Wisehouse Classics Anniversary Edition of 1911 - with 13 original illustrations) by James Matthew Barrie
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Greatest Novels of William Harrison Ainsworth (Illustrated Edition) - 7,438 pages
I've never before seen free Kindle editions of Ainsworth's historical novels. The above collection is huge, but you may choose instead to download the individual novels:
Guy Fawkes: Historical Novel: A Tale of the Destruction of the Parliament - Gunpowder Plot of 1605
Jack Sheppard: Historical Novel
Old St Paul's: Historical Novel: A Tale of Great London Plague & Fire
Rookwood: Historical Novel
Windsor Castle: Historical Novel
Recently released classics:
From Beyond by H.P. Lovecraft
Herbert West – Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (illustrated) by L. Frank Baum
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
Marxism. Anarchism. Communism: The Communist Manifesto, The Conquest of Bread, State and Revolution by various authors
The Conquest of Bread (Illustrated) by Peter Kropotkin - this book is included in the above volume, "Marxism. Anarchism. Communism"
The State and Revolution (IIlustrated) by Vladimir Lenin - this book is included in the above volume, "Marxism. Anarchism. Communism"
The Complete Poems of Sappho (illustrated) by Sappho
Recently marked down to $0.00:
The Conference of the Birds by Farid Ud-din Attar
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
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Recently released classics:
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
40 classic novels by various authors. These are 40 separate ebooks of well-known classics. Most were just published today. When you reach the third page of books, only the first eight are free.
Our next publisher put spooky photos on the covers of each of the following short stories by H.P. Lovecraft. Some books are as short as 13 pages, and are not worth downloading unless they are free. Which they are, for now:
In the Vault
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Horror at Red Hook
The Nameless City
Pickman's Model
The Colour Out of Space
Not a classic, but it may be of interest to someone:The Impeachment of Donald Trump
It's a collection of documents regarding the current impeachment process. It was published on January 10, so it appears to be a lot of documents from the House investigation, plus the entire Mueller Report, which is about 50% of this volume.
I downloaded it. Yep, it's a really dry read. Says it takes 29 hours 33 minutes to read. The opposite of an "unputdownable" novel. Enjoy!
Classics!Recently discounted to $0.00:
Classic novels & short stories.Just published.
Just marked down to FREE, possibly for today only:
Just marked down to FREE, possibly for today only:
This Jack London collection was just republished.
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Nine new editions of "Call of the Wild" were published yesterday. I see no difference in their content; only the covers vary. So I picked just one, in case anyone new to this group hasn't downloaded this classic yet.Today's just-released or recently-discounted freebies listed below are by the authors Jack London, Anthony Trollope, Edgar Allan Poe, William Morris, and H. P. Lovecraft.
Hi all! I've got a self-help / personal and relationship transformation book that's free until tomorrow. If you download and read it, I'd love some reviews. Thanks!The Genuine You - https://amzn.to/36QlDt2
Recently discounted to $0.00:
I guess you don't care about people who have visions problems. I wrote to you before, and I rite to you again.... "Please, Next time, please list the titles in addition to cover pix. A lots of us have vision problems and have trouble reading titles on cover pix."And I am not the only one who has asked you this.
Jean wrote: "I guess you don't care about people who have visions problems. I wrote to you before, and I rite to you again.... "Please, Next time, please list the titles in addition to cover pix. A lots of us h..."I very much appreciate the free titles that Sligo McKluge (and others) post here. However, I receive the updates as an email and if only covers are listed without titles also it appears in my email as html codes only and I can't see what is on offer without visiting Goodreads.
A simple solution is to list the titles of the books too and then people who get email notifications or have vision issues can read the titles more easily. Many thanks to Sligo and others for many wonderful free links posted in the past, I have taken advantage of several of the large collections.
"I guess you don't care about people who have visions problems."That's an unnecessary insult. I was trying out a new template to save time when posting a lot of books. So the experiment failed. There's no need to be rude to me about it.
I'm not a publisher and am not paid in any way for my almost-daily posts in the Free Books group. My reason for doing this is to enable everyone to read the classics, even when they can't afford to buy a lot of books. Also, I used to enjoy the camaraderie with fellow readers on the "discounted books" list.
It does take a little time out of my day every day to post here. Looks like it's time for a break.
For Doug and those who have written to me privately: thanks for the kind words. I may come back some day. Here's my final post for now, a link to a new publisher who is offering 25 classics and collections. Sorry that I do not feel like posting a list of the 25 titles & authors.
Sligo McKluge wrote: "For Doug and those who have written to me privately: thanks for the kind words. I may come back some day. Here's my final post for now, a link to a new publisher who is offering 25 classics and collections. Sorry that I do not feel like posting a list of the 25 titles & authors."Thanks for your work in the past, will look forward to seeing you here again someday hopefully. I believe in treating others with respect, sorry someone had a bad day and insulted you when you were providing a valuable service. I picked up 4 collections from that link you just posted, currently I have been reading some Zane Grey westerns and so the two western collections were right up my alley.
Thanks, Doug. We all have bad days, and I'm not letting that person's bad day drive me away. Mostly the time commitment required to contribute is the best reason for me to stop doing this for awhile.When I have time, I will set up a new discussion group focused on free books in the public domain (copyright expired), since that is my main interest. It means the books will mostly be classic literature, and all of it published at least 95 years ago. New authors will not be allowed to post self-promotions in this group that is for old books only.
I'll be sure to post a note here when the discussion group is established, along with a warning that not all posts in the new group will necessarily be formatted for text-only email. This will enable me to post more material quickly in the format of my choice, and the email subscribers can avoid the new group if the formatting displeases them.
In the spirit of collaboration, I wonder if you, Doug, or someone else would like to participate in posting free classics in the public domain to *this* group. I would be happy to send you almost-daily lists of ASIN numbers of the latest releases or discounted-to-free classics that I find. I'm continuing to seek out these books to download myself and to share with friends. Since the research is already done, perhaps someone else could take the time to type out and post the author/title lists here?
I'd ask Randy to include all newly-free classics on his wonderful lists, but Randy does enough for us already!
Here's one more freebie, just published yesterday. Instead of my usual direct link to Amazon, this link comes from the Goodreads tool for posting books. It looks up the ASIN, but does not display the full title in the post. This is the quickest way to add books here, by letting Goodreads post partial titles and no author. Not so useful to people like me who read posts on the Goodreads discussion groups, and want to click once to go directly to the Amazon product page.
The Adventure Collection: Treasure Island, The Jungle Book, Gulliver's Travels....
I used to type in the genres, too: "Here's a batch of science fiction", etc. You could help readers by doing the same on your posts, if you feel like it. Randy does it!
Sligo McKluge wrote: "I'd ask Randy to include all newly-free classics on his wonderful lists, but Randy does enough for us already!"Is there a category on Amazon that would include all of them?
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Regarding the free classic literature to be found on amazon.com, Randy wrote: "Is there a category on Amazon that would include all of them?"There really isn't a single dependable category. Under "Literature & Fiction" is the category "Classics". This category includes some modern classics, which I think would be fine mixed with "old classics" on your lists, Randy. However, a lot of the classics I find are listed under other categories, such as "Mystery, Thriller & Suspense".
Furthermore, some publishers of free books choose inappropriate categories. One of the categories for this free copy of Little Women is "Historical African Fiction". And this edition of Jack London's The Call of the Wild is in the category "Women Writers".
I have a theory concerning willful miscategorization of free books, but this post is too long already.
Sligo McKluge wrote: "There really isn't a single dependable category."One issue that would arise with my process is that the same classic can be published again and again, by various people. So it would be difficult to automate a "newly free" list.
Randy wrote: One issue that would arise with my process is that the same classic can be published again and again, by various people. So it would be difficult to automate a "newly free" list."I can see why this would not work on your lists.
I imagine the reason for listing only "newly free" books is because avid readers who've been downloading books for years are looking for fresh material. They would find your lists extremely useful.
My tendency is to make useful lists for the ebook newbies, too. For various reasons, there are many who have not started reading ebooks until recently. Some are just starting to download ebooks the very day I posted that 10th "new release" of Little Women. That's why I post it the 10th time, while joking about the rash of new versions of the same book. The first through ninth versions by other publishers may have already gone up in price, and I want the person who just joined us today to have a shot at the 10th free edition of it.
I figure the veteran readers can just skip over posts about ebooks they have previously downloaded. To catch the eye of the veteran readers of classic ebooks, I often highlight fresh material by saying "I've never seen free ebooks by this author before."
I've stopped posting book lists here, and will instead focus on the new discussion topic about free classics on Kindle. Newbies and veterans can find the material there.
New Goodreads dicussion topic:
Sales and Cheap Books > Free classics & popular literature in the public domain
To save time, I may not always write out lists of titles and authors there, and may post only the book covers that link to the Amazon product page. Also, I'll sometimes post URLs to longer lists of free classic books instead of typing all the titles and authors in my posts.
I hope others will post their classic lit finds there. I'm especially keen on highlighting books whose copyrights have just expired, making the literature free to all for the first time.
Tip for newbies: before bookmarking the Goodreads URL in your browser's Favorites list, be sure to sort the posts by date, with newest at the top.
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