Given December, when people are short of both time and money, I'm nominating
Sylvie and Bruno, by Lewis Carroll. No, I'd never heard of it either, but I found it in the Patricia Clark Library and it's both short and free and sounds intriguing.
Here's the description from
jellby, who uploaded it:
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This is a hard work to classify. It has fantasy, it has humor, it has philosophy, some parts are nice for children, some parts contain more "grown-up" thoughts. Nevertheless, the style and imagination of Carroll is evident throughout the book. It is also surprising how he manages to touch so many subjects of interest today, quotes and situations can be found to illustrate relativity, evolution, topology, emergent intelligence, self-referencing... It's, in my opinion, a very pleasant work to read and a nice discovery.
The book is fully illustrated with the 92 original illustrations by Harry Furniss, which account for the large size of the file (I preferred to keep the images rather high-quality).
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Sylvie and Bruno
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