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So I'm rereading Pterry Pratchett's GUARDS! GUARDS! and I swear to you, that book is a phenomenal meditation on how tyranny can sweep a reasonably peaceful nation, and what needs to be done to dislodge draconian rulers.
Now more relevant than ever.
HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY!
Books which will enter the US public domain:
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon (as serialized in Black Mask magazine)
John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold (Steinbeck's first novel)
Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
Patrick Hamilton, Rope
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In November 1867.
The Leipzig publisher Reclam launches its Universal-Bibliothek series of cheap reprints with Goethe's Faust following the lifting of copyright restrictions in the new North German Confederation for authors dead for more than 30 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe%27s_Faust
Faust by Goethe at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/45806
Faust: A Lyric Drama in Five Acts by Gounod, Barbier, and Carré
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
If you want access to free books, please get a library card.
In the US, the more people there are with library cards, the more funding libraries have access to.
Libraries provide more than books. They are a community resource.
As an author and reader, I support libraries!
Meine 8 Jährige stellt übermorgen in der Schule ihr Lieblingsbuch vor:
Ada & Zangemann
Sie erzählt über Technik, Programmieren & Software Freiheit.
Bin ich stolz!
Ich kann es Euch auch empfehlen. Text, Bilder und mehr online sowie Affiliate Link zum gedruckten Buch zugunsten @fsfe unter https://ada.fsfe.org
Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream - FSFE
Here you find additional information and resources about the book "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream" by Matthias ...FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe