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What are the best public domain books you've read? (lemmy.zip)
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What are the best public domain books that you've read? My currently downloaded books include "The Time Machine", "Pride and Prejudice", "Frankenstein", "War and Peace", "On Liberty", "Metamorphosis" (all from Librivox), etc. I especially like "Crime and Punishment" and "Brothers Karamazov" and others by Dostoevsky since they delve deeper into human psychology, values, and morality. Also to add, Librivox is so fucking cool and now I have something to listen to on my daily bus/car rides.

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[–] [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You're absolutely right – I actually read those in my mother tongue. I'm probably gonna read some of Leo Tolstoy next. Thanks for the recommendations!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    War and Peace was written primarily in Russian, but a lot of the dialog was written in French since much of the aristocracy at the time in Russia spoke French. I read a version that translated the Russian to English, but left the French as is, which was strange.

    That's just something you might need to keep in mind when figuring out which version to read.

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