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I've made some books available on-line. I originally converted them to be read in a web browser so I could carry them around on my notebook computer. All of them worth a read.
I got the text for all these books from the really excellent Project Gutenberg. (I've left the Project Gutenburg "small text" with each book, but at the end and not at the beginning as I should have. I should fix that. Please read it -- these are really good people.)
Here are the books. (I made a mistake when reorganizing this site a while ago and got the links to these books wrong. Now it's fixed. 24 September 2004) Click on the title of any one to see the book itself:
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass.
Both of the "Alice" books, as well as still being very funny in parts, are excellent sources for renewing your interest in logical thought. H.G. Wells, War of the Worlds. Still one of the best Science Fiction books. I just love the first few paragraphs. H.G. Wells, The World Set Free. Written in 1914, describing the uncontrolled spread of nuclear weapons, the development of nuclear terrorism, and how and why it will only be dealt with when all nations disavow the use of nuclear weapons. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. A guilty pleasure maybe, but a good one. Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men In a Boat. Thought by many to be the funniest book in the English language. The King James Version of the Bible. Apart from its importance as a sacred text, the KJV largely (with a major co-contribution from Shakespear) defines the modern English language. It has been suggested that you can't speak more than a few sentences of English without quoting from the KJV. Abraham Lincoln, Speeches. Some amazingly mistaken views, but also some of the most inspiring words in the language. Where's Lincoln now that we really need him? Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace. Well, it is big. And there's all those Russian names. They're a major pain to keep track of. (Maybe I should have a list that you can click on readily available.) But it's a good story, and even if rather biased, good history.
Enjoy!
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