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I rather like this idea. I've subscribed to ArcaMax's word-a-day list for some time, and if you just ignore all of the advertising, it's useful.
This will send you a chapter a day of various classic books that have entered the public domain.
To wit:
Back to School Book List
English and literature classes all over the country are assigning dozens of classic novels to students for the year. Below is a list of dozens of the most popular in classrooms, including Shakespeare, classic poetry, novels and short fiction, and more. Click the title of each book to be taken to the full text -- and subscribe to read a chapter a day by e-mail, or read directly from the site. Helping your kids with their homework has never been so simple ... and all the books are free!
Grade School/Younger Readers
-- Aesop: Fables
-- Andersen, Hans Christian: Fairy Tales
-- Baum, L. Frank: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
-- Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
-- Grimm Brothers: Grimms' Fairy Tales
-- Kipling, Rudyard: The Jungle Book
Middle School
-- Bunyan, John: The Pilgrim's Progress
-- Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
-- Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol
-- Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
-- Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
-- Irving, Washington: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
-- London, Jack: The Call of the Wild
-- Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
-- Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
-- Verne, Jules: Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
-- Wells, Herbert George: The War of the Worlds
High School/Older Readers
-- Anonymous: Beowulf
-- Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
-- Cervantes, Miguel: Don Quixote
-- Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales
-- Franklin, Benjamin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
-- Hardy, Thomas: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
-- Homer: The Iliad / The Odyssey
-- Keats, John: Poems, 1817
-- Marlowe, Christopher: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
-- Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
-- Shakespeare, William: Hamlet
-- Shakespeare, William: King Lear
-- Shakespeare, William: Much Ado About Nothing
-- Shakespeare, William: Sonnets
-- Shaw, George Bernard: Pygmalion
-- Sheridan, Richard: The School for Scandal
-- Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver's Travels
-- Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
-- Virgil: The Aeneid
-- Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray
And I own far, far too many of them! On the other hand, I can barely stand to part with a single one.
My current addiction is LibraryThing, which lets me catalog my library online. My username there is jaewalker if you're curious. I have over 100 books added and haven't even begun to touch the occult library in the study, or the general (mostly SF and Fantasy) library in the basement. Whee!
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." Cicero
