Topper Takes a Trip Thorne Smith http://feedbooks.com/book/1512 urn:isbn:0375753079 en 1932 Novels Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1512.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1512.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1512.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1512.mobi The Night Life of the Gods Thorne Smith http://feedbooks.com/book/1498 urn:isbn:0375753060 en 1931 Novels Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1498.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1498.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1498.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1498.mobi Turnabout Thorne Smith http://feedbooks.com/book/1511 en 1931 Novels Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1511.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1511.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1511.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1511.mobi The Bishop's Jaegers Thorne Smith http://feedbooks.com/book/1522 en 1932 Novels Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1522.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1522.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1522.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1522.mobi The Glorious Pool Thorne Smith http://feedbooks.com/book/1534 en 1934 Novels Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1534.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1534.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1534.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1534.mobi Skin and Bones Thorne Smith http://feedbooks.com/book/1533 en 1933 Novels Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1533.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1533.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1533.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1533.mobi The Stray Lamb Thorne Smith http://feedbooks.com/book/1499 en 1929 Novels Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1499.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1499.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1499.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1499.mobi Rain in the Doorway Thorne Smith http://feedbooks.com/book/1532 en 1933 Novels Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1532.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1532.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1532.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1532.mobi Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Jerome Klapka Jerome http://feedbooks.com/book/2182 urn:isbn:1843911604 en 1886 Essay Collections Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/2182.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2182.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2182.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2182.mobi Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Jerome Klapka Jerome http://feedbooks.com/book/2183 urn:isbn:1402199805 en 1898 Essay Collections Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/2183.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2183.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2183.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2183.mobi Three Men in a Boat Jerome Klapka Jerome http://feedbooks.com/book/2173 en 1889 Novels Humor/Satire Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers, the jokes seem fresh and witty even today. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who went on to become a senior manager in Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional, but "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog." The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This is just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/2173.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2173.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2173.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2173.mobi The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde http://feedbooks.com/book/7 urn:isbn:1558586113 en 1887 Short Fiction Humor/Satire Ghost Stories The Canterville Ghost is a popular 1887 novella by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage. “The Canterville Ghost” is a parody featuring a dramatic spirit named Sir Simon and the United States minister (ambassador) to the Court of St. James's, Hiram B. Otis. Mr. Otis travels to England with his family and moves into a haunted country house. Lord Canterville, the previous owner of the house, warns Mr. Otis that the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville has haunted it ever since he killed his wife, Eleonore, three centuries before. But Mr. Otis dismisses the ghost story as bunk and disregards Lord Canterville’s warnings. When the Otises learn that the house is indeed haunted, they succeed in victimizing the ghost and in disregarding age-old British traditions. What emerges is a satire of American materialism, a lampoon of traditional British values, and an amusing twist on the traditional gothic horror tale. http://feedbooks.com/book/7.png http://feedbooks.com/book/7.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/7.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/7.mobi Right Ho, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse http://feedbooks.com/book/4109 en 1934 Novels Humor/Satire Right Ho, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, the second full-length novel featuring the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, after Thank You, Jeeves. It also features a host of other recurring Wodehouse characters, and is mostly set at Brinkley Court, the home of Bertie's Aunt Dahlia. It was first published in the United Kingdom on October 5, 1934 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on October 15, 1934 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, under the title Brinkley Manor. Before being published as a book, it had been sold to the Saturday Evening Post, in which it appeared in serial form from December 23, 1933 to January 27, 1934, and in England in Grand Magazine from April to September 1934. Wodehouse had already started planning this sequel while working on Thank You, Jeeves. (Wikipedia) Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/4109.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4109.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4109.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4109.mobi The Book of Snobs William Makepeace Thackeray http://feedbooks.com/book/1490 en 1848 Humor/Satire http://feedbooks.com/book/1490.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1490.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1490.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1490.mobi The $30,000 Bequest and other short stories Mark Twain http://feedbooks.com/book/1176 urn:isbn:0195101464 en 2004 Short Fiction Collections Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1176.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1176.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1176.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1176.mobi The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://feedbooks.com/book/3431 en 1922 Short Fiction This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books." The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: "Sir-- I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.mobi The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving http://feedbooks.com/book/196 urn:isbn:0809594080 en 1820 Short Fiction Horror Ghost Stories http://feedbooks.com/book/196.png http://feedbooks.com/book/196.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/196.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/196.mobi I, Robot Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/337 urn:isbn:1560259817 en 2005 Short Fiction Science Fiction "I, Robot" is a science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow published in 2005. The story is set in the type of police state needed to ensure that only one company is allowed to make robots, and only one type of robot is allowed. The story follows single Father detective Arturo Icaza de Arana-Goldberg while he tries to track down his missing teenage daughter. The detective is a bit of an outcast because his wife defected to Eurasia, a rival Superpower. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/337.png http://feedbooks.com/book/337.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/337.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/337.mobi My Man Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse http://feedbooks.com/book/4086 en 1919 Novels Humor/Satire My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK in May 1919 by George Newnes. Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, an early prototype for Wooster. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/4086.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4086.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4086.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4086.mobi Frankenstein Mary Shelley http://feedbooks.com/book/91 urn:isbn:0743487583 en 1818 Novels Science Fiction Horror Gothic Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture, people have tended to refer to the Creature as "Frankenstein", despite this being the name of the scientist. Frankenstein is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. It is arguably considered the first fully realized science fiction novel. http://feedbooks.com/book/91.png http://feedbooks.com/book/91.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/91.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/91.mobi