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Hey Lemmy, what are some good public domain books? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I tend to like the volunteer-read audiobooks on librivox and recently was curious about their Sherlock Holmes books (never read or listened to before), but I'm wondering what else is out there and popular in the community.

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[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I've actually been a big fan of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for a long time so thank you for bringing it up and indulging me in a happy nostalgia. I've heard it described variously over the years as possibly the first or at least early science fiction, as well as even proto-feminist in its more subtle themes. Might be a good time to return to it. There are some potentially Luddite themes as well but in an era when people were en masse encountering rapid technological advancement while philosophical approaches to that rapid advancement were still in their infancy it's a forgivable flaw.