Project Gutenberg book recs!

[coraa]

I'm going on a weekend trip to Tahoe this week, and it's going to be my first chance to actually use the Kindle for one of the purposes for which I bought it: being able to travel without hauling my body weight in books along with me. To that end, I'm hunting down out-of-copyright books I can upload to it before I go.

So: recommend me things! Ideally either things that are already available on Project Gutenberg, or that are otherwise available freely online (plain text, html, .doc or.pdf all work, although pdfs with tons of images or really odd formatting sometimes transfer weirdly), and I'll upload them and take a look. :D I will give anything a shot, but I am particularly fond of medieval literature, Regency and Victorian social novels, and fantasy, mythology and folklore of all stripes.

(A specific request to people who are familiar with Trollope: I read The Eustace Diamonds and really liked it -- got any suggestions for what to try next?)

Comments

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

Trollope: Well, the rest of the Palliser novels are good, though The Eustace Diamonds is my favorite. Of the Barchester novels, I like best Barchester Towers and Framley Parsonage (which is what papersky's Tooth and Claw is based on). Probably my favorite of the standalone novels is He Knew He Was Right.

Have you read any Elizabeth Gaskell? She's a lesser-known but wonderful Victorian novelist, very concerned with social issues. Mary Barton is a good place to start, and I also love her last novel, Wives and Daughters, dearly.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

Framley Parsonage! You know, I'd planned on reading that after I read Tooth and Claw and then it slipped my mind. Thank you for the reminder.

I haven't read any Gaskell, but I think I've heard of Wives and Daughters. I'll give Mary Barton a try to start.