Free Digital People’s Library
November 10, 2011 | Posted in: Blog
I’m taking Galleycat’s challenge and creating a free digital library for Occupy Wall Street. Starting, ahem, with mine. I recommend the free Bluefire Reader.
The American Book of the Dead
by Henry Baum
Occupy Consciousness
Essays
A Modern Utopia
by HG Wells
The Iron Heel
by Jack London
It Can’t Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
Bartleby, the Scrivener
by Herman Melville
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
Proposed Roads to Freedom
by Bertrand Russell
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
A People’s History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
[...] Henry Baum’s Free Digital People’s Library [...]
Thank you for doing this, Henry. I might recommend the Jack London short story “A Dream of Debs”, which concerns the effects of a nationwide general strike, first upon San Francisco and its environs and then on the entire nation as the movement picks up steam. The story condenses everything London was saying in “The Iron Heel” (which, I note, you have included) but in more digestible form.
Thanks, Rodger. I haven’t been able to find anything downloadable, but here’s this: http://www.classicreader.com/book/1428/1/