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•8 reviews since Mar 12, 2004
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pppone rated 10 months ago- Public domain. That's great for a non-profit group like Gutenberg but just plain exploitative for this site. Putting AdSense on great works of literature and making money off of it. For shame.
- gustavorofer rated 13 months ago
- Public domain books. Gee, that's great!
- newsharon rated 18 months ago
- I LOVE public domain!!!! Yes and thumbs up to allowing shutins on a limited budget to read and know they have an intellect.
- redneckdriver rated 20 months ago
- Robert Louis Stevenson's popularity is based primarily on the exciting subject matter of his adventure novels and stories of the fantastic. Treasure Island (1883), a swiftly paced story of a search for buried gold, portrays good, in the form of the boy Jim and his friends, against evil, as personified by the pirate Pew and the one-legged Long John Silver. In 1851 Wilkie Collins began an association with Charles Dickens that exerted a formative influence on his career. Their admiration was mutual. Under Dickens' influence, Collins developed a talent for characterization, humour, and popular success, while the older writer's debt to Collins is evident in the more skillful and suspenseful plot structures of such novels as A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1860-61). Collins began contributing serials to Dickens' periodical Household Words, and his first major work, The Woman in White (1860), appeared in Dickens' All the Year Round. Among his most successful subsequent books were No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868). One of the first and greatest masters of the mystery story, he was a much-imitated writer. The motif of The Moonstone, concerning a cursed jewel that was originally stolen from an idol's eye, has been repeated countless times, and his Count Fosco in The Woman in White is the illustrious original of innumerable bravura villains. Classic literature is addictive.
- adifferentstory rated 31 months ago
- Lots of good, free classic literature here.
