I just got into Project Gutenberg and I'm totally overwhelmed.

>>7736538

>reading Frederick Douglass autobiography from Gutenberg
>"d----d b---h"
>"nigger"

why couldn't you say damned in 1800s America?

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>>7736538
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Gutenberg+the+law

>also came across this you might not know you might find it interesting check it out

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-mathematical-law-gutenberg-texts.html

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>>7736545
because "damned bitch" is offensive and "nigger" isn't

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Ecclesiastes
Meditations
Epictetus

>>7736656
Fucking checkmate.

>>7736538
Read Anne of Green Gables.

>>7736538
>pdf
Thanks but no

>>7736545
"nigger" only became offensive in the second half of the 20th century

>>7737415
Retard, they are all in mobi, html, epub, and pdf

>>7736538
Arthur Conan Doyle's Crime of the Congo and Great Boer War are really good.
The Enchiridion by EpictetusThe Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion But as a New Theory of Life by Count Leo Tolstoy
A General History of the Pyrates: / from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, / to the present time by Unknown (Jonathan Swift)
On the Field of Glory / An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Discovery of America by the Northmen, 985-1015 by Edmund F. Slafte
The story of Burnt Njal / From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by Anonymous
The Four Feathers by A. E. W. Mason
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Black Douglas by S. R. Crockett
Les Chants de Maldoror by comte de Lautréamon
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolò Machiavelli
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Rob Roy — Complete by Sir Walter Scott
The Damned by Algernon Blackwood
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Life of Cesare Borgia by Rafael Sabatini
Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Notre-Dame De Paris by Victor Hugo
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatin
On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus [MOBI]
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution by Mariano Azuela
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini [EPUB]
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini [AZW3,EPUB]

>>7736545

Wow you bought everything your high school fed you. Saying nigger is fine, it's a word referring to a subsect of people that don't like being characterized by their actions yet they continue to act in the same way.

>>7736545
Puritan culture made cursing or referring to anything related to hell or the devil taboo. "Nigger" wasn't considered a pejorative until the 20th century.

>>7738141

I knew "nigger" wasn't considered offensive at the time, it's just weird seeing something as tame as "damned" being censored. At least Hemingway was censored for using words like "cocksucker."

>anything related to hell or the devil

Thanks for explaining that.

This thread has been a tremendous disappointment