The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1919. The prize is awarded to works of “distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” This is one of (at the time of this writing) 10 Pulitzer-winning books that are no longer under copyright and are available free […]
UPDATE: Now on YouTube, only 5 months later! (I’m not embedding video here because it spoils my “no tracking, no cookies” policy.) This text is the script for that video, so you’re missing nothing if you stick to one medium. On winter solstice, the birds disappeared, and the mist arrived. The inhabitants of Nebulah quickly
I’ll be relying on Project Gutenberg for a fair amount of my reading in 2026. As it says at the top of their home page, “Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks,” which is a number too large to browse without getting fatigued. (That’s how I “watch movies”: scroll for 20 minutes,
His Family by Ernest Poole won the first Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1918. The prize is awarded to works of “distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” This is one of (at the time of this writing) 10 Pulitzer-winning books that are no longer under copyright and are available free