What book?

Looking for a non copyrighted book to use for the chatbot, Project Gutenberg has many books but they might be a bit old… Let’s try to make a selection
I went to children books, thinking it will have a simple language, and might get a better effect with a chainer

 A book of Nonsense by Edward Lear. This one has little rhymes, all on the same model, it would be weird to try it, it will probably shuffle the words and keep the structure and make it a bit mere nonsensical..

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13646
Here are the complete Edward Lear nonsense poetry: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13650 

I think it might have a nice ‘Alice in Wonderland’ effect a recognizable voice, 19th century, but is the quantity of text enough?

Looking for some interesting 19th century writings, I fell on this:

Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by F. Anstey  
Humorous, written in the ‘I’ form, in a super-educated 19th century language, it’s already like reading from a whacky chatbot, hardly understandable…

“Picture my amazement when, as I promenaded the path beside the waters of the Serpentine lake, I beheld a wheeled cavalcade of every conceivable age, sex, and appearance; senile gaffers and baby buntings; multitudinous women, some plump as a duckling, others thin as a paper-thread; aye, and even priests in sanctimonious black and milk-white cravats, rolling swiftly upon two wheels, and all agog to dash through thick and thin!”

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the most downloaded book in Gutenberg project! Written in the ‘I’ form, definitely 19th century, it could be funny, it might even be recognisable once minced into a chainer.

I found a recent book “Little Brother” by Cory Doctorow(2007° which is under creative commons licence

https://ideas.cloudkeepers.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Cory_Doctorow_-_Little_Brother.pdf