A whole slew of H. Beam Piper (Little Fuzzy and Space Viking fame--the first is present, the latter is not.
and
Andre Norton, Murray Leinster, E.E. "Doc" Smith, Tom Godwin,and others
E-Book/E-Text Announcements: April 2006 Archives
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1903, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, as with many such prize winners is almost unheard of today.
Here's another titled A Happy Boy.
Here's a place to get a biography
Absalom's Hair and A Painful Memory from Childhood
A Project Gutenberg Download Site
And finally, One site to rule them all, one site to find them, one site to bring them all together and in the darkness bind them.
Among Famous Books by John Kelman.
The TOC looks interesting:
PREFACE.
LECTURE I. THE GODS OF GREECE
LECTURE II. MARIUS THE EPICUREAN
LECTURE III. THE TWO FAUSTS
LECTURE IV. CELTIC REVIVALS OF PAGANISM
LECTURE V. JOHN BUNYAN
LECTURE VI. PEPYS' DIARY
LECTURE VII. SARTOR RESARTUS
LECTURE VIII. PAGAN REACTIONS
LECTURE IX. MR. G.K. CHESTERTON'S POINT OF VIEW
LECTURE X. THE HOUND OF HEAVEN
from "Lecture IX" of above
No one will accuse Mr. Chesterton of being an unhealthy writer. On the contrary, he is among the most wholesome writers now alive. He is irresistibly exhilarating, and he inspires his readers with a constant inclination to rise up and shout. Perhaps his danger lies in that very fact, and in the exhaustion of the nerves which such sustained exhilaration is apt to produce. But besides this, he, like so many of our contemporaries, has written such a bewildering quantity of literature on such an amazing variety of subjects, that it is no wonder if sometimes the reader follows panting, through the giddy mazes of the dance. He is the sworn enemy of specialisation, as he explains in his remarkable essay on “The Twelve Men.”
Genesis A novelette by H. Beam Piper
Poets and Dreamers tr. Lady Augusta Gregory et al. By the title you can tell that this will be a translation of irish texts.
RAFTERY
WEST IRISH BALLADS.
JACOBITE BALLADS.
AN CRAOIBHIN'S POEMS
BOER BALLADS IN IRELAND
A SORROWFUL LAMENT FOR IRELAND
MOUNTAIN THEOLOGY
HERB-HEALING
THE WANDERING TRIBE
WORKHOUSE DREAMS
ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
AN CRAOIBHIN'S PLAYS
THE TWISTING OF THE ROPE
THE MARRIAGE
THE LOST SAINT
THE NATIVITY
Project Gutenberg Edition of The Free Press--by Hilaire Belloc
The Works of Lucian of Samosata (tr.) Fowler and Fowler
The Syrian Goddess of Lucian of Samosata, not included in the Works indicated above.
The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology Martin P. Nilsson
Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei (tr.) Dwight Goddard
The Vishnu Purana tr. Horace Hayman Wilson.
These cover a range of my eccentric interests. I can't vouch for all of the translations, but if you are interested and unfamiliar with the works, these may just give you enough information to decide for yourselves where you would like to start reading.
