Yesterday, I spent a lazy afternoon watching an episode of Return to Cranford, a Masterpiece Classic I had DVR'd months ago. I only had one episode recorded so I went on a quest for the other. Netflix didn't have it for online viewing, but did note that it was based on the "classic novels of celebrated Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell". Hmmm. That meant 19th century and public domain! So off I went to FeedBooks to find not only Cranford, but an impressive collection of Elizabeth's books.
There are a lot of other Masterpiece productions available as public domain ebooks. I saw an advertisement that Masterpiece Mystery will be broadcasting some Sherlock Holmes stories this fall. I love British mysteries - especially Agatha Christie. Some of her stuff is beginning to show up in the public domain libraries and the ones that aren't are very reasonably priced.