Harrigan Max Brand http://feedbooks.com/book/3429 en 1918 Novels Adventure With gusts of wind fanning it roughly, the flame rose fast. Harrigan made other journeys to the rotten stump and wrenched away great chunks of bark and wood. He came back and piled them on the fire. It towered high, the upper tongues twisting among the branches of the tree. They laid Kate Malone between the windbreak and the fire. In a short time her trembling ceased; she turned her face to the blaze and slept. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3429.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3429.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3429.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3429.mobi Gunman's Reckoning Max Brand http://feedbooks.com/book/3385 en 1921 Novels Western "It was time then for action, and Lefty Joe prepared for the descent into the home of the enemy. Let it not be thought that he approached this moment with a fallen heart, and with a cringing, snaky feeling as a man might be expected to feel when he approached to murder a sleeping foeman. For that was not Lefty's emotion at all. Rather he was overcome by a tremendous happiness. He could have sung with joy at the thought that he was about to rid himself of this pest." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3385.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3385.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3385.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3385.mobi Riders of the Silences Max Brand http://feedbooks.com/book/3475 en 1919 Novels Western The Great West prior to the century's turn abounded in legend. Stories were told of fabled gunmen whose bullets always magically found their mark of mighty stallions whose tireless gallop rivaled the speed of the wind of glorious women whose beauty stunned mind and heart. But nowhere in the vast spread of the mountain-desert country was there a greater legend told than the story of Red Pierre and the phantom gunfighter McGurk. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3475.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3475.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3475.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3475.mobi Bull Hunter Max Brand http://feedbooks.com/book/3348 en 1924 Novels Adventure Western Hunter was a man who could rip a tree trunk from the ground with his bare hands or tame the wildest stallion with his kind manner. Nobody west of the Pecos would have dared run afoul of the mighty frontiersman. But Pete Reeve didn't have the reputation of a dead shot because he relied on his common sense. Then Bull and Pete crossed paths, and townsfolk from Cheyenne to San Antonio braced for the battle. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/3348.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3348.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3348.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3348.mobi The Rangeland Avenger Max Brand http://feedbooks.com/book/3472 en 1922 Novels Western And maybe I ain't. Sinclair brushed the entire argument away into a thin mist of smoke. "Now, look here, Cold Feet, I'm about to go to sleep, and when I sleep, I sure sleep sound, taking it by and large. They's times when I don't more'n close one eye all night, and they's times when you'd have to pull my eyes open, one by one, to wake me up. Understand? I'm going to sleep the second way tonight. About eight hours of the soundest sleep you ever heard tell of." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3472.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3472.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3472.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3472.mobi Black Jack Max Brand http://feedbooks.com/book/3277 en 1922 Novels Western The raucous beginning of Brand's Western is traditional: A gunfighter is shot dead in the street. However, when spinster Elizabeth Cornish takes his baby to raise and wagers with her brother that blood will not "will out"--that Jack's son will not be a murderer--a fascinating story of nature versus nurture emerges. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3277.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3277.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3277.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3277.mobi The Untamed Max Brand http://feedbooks.com/book/3477 en 1919 Novels Western Brand's career as an author of Westerns began with this tale set in an otherworldly Wild West, which first appeared as a serial in All-Story magazine and was soon transformed into a film starring Tom Mix. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3477.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3477.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3477.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3477.mobi Alcatraz Max Brand http://feedbooks.com/book/3260 urn:isbn:1406584916 en 1922 Novels Western A classic western from one of the masters of the genre. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3260.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3260.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3260.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3260.mobi Ronicky Doone Max Brand http://feedbooks.com/book/3589 urn:isbn:1604504056 en 1921 Novels Western Doone had won the respect of every law-abiding citizen, from Tombstone to Sonora--and the hatred of every bushwacking bandit! But Bill Gregg wasn't one to let a living legend get in his way. What nobody told Gregg was that Doone didn't enjoy living up to his hard-riding, rip-roaring life--unless he took a chance at losing it once in a while. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3589.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3589.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3589.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3589.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 Phantastes George MacDonald http://feedbooks.com/book/3437 en 1858 Novels Fantasy Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fourteenth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April 1970. This was the first prose work published by MacDonald. Because of its limited financial success, MacDonald saw himself forced to turn to writing realistic novels. Phantastes, however, exerted a strong influence on fantasy authors of later generations: for example, C. S. Lewis in his book Suprised by Joy claimed that his imagination had been "baptized" by reading it. The story centers on the character Anodos ("pathless" or "ascent" in Greek) and takes its inspiration from German Romanticism, particularly Novalis. The story concerns a young man who is pulled into a dreamlike world and there hunts for his ideal of female beauty, embodied by the "Marble Lady". Anodos lives through many adventures and temptations while in the other world, until he is finally ready to give up his ideals. In its themes and overall storyline, Phantastes is a kind of dry run for MacDonald's later novel Lilith. http://feedbooks.com/book/3437.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3437.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3437.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3437.mobi The Man of the Forest Zane Grey http://feedbooks.com/book/1832 urn:isbn:0803270623 en 1920 Novels Western Accidentally overhearing a plot to kidnap the niece of a prominent rancher as she arrives from the East, Milt Dale springs into action. He comes out of his splendid isolation to protect Helen and her kid sister, Bo. Leading them away from manmade danger, exposing them to unaccustomed rigor on mountain trails, Dale imparts his rugged philosophy. Beyond the forest, Beasley and Snake Anson are still waiting to carry out their evil plot. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1832.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1832.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1832.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1832.mobi The Raven Edgar Allan Poe http://feedbooks.com/book/3428 en 1845 Poetry Horror "The Raven" is a narrative poem by the American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. It was published for the first time on January 29, 1845, in the New York Evening Mirror. Noted for its musicality, stylized language and supernatural atmosphere, it tells of the mysterious visit of a talking raven to a distraught lover, tracing his slow descent into madness. http://feedbooks.com/book/3428.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3428.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3428.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3428.mobi The Young Forester Zane Grey http://feedbooks.com/book/1867 en 1910 Novels Western This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1867.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1867.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1867.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1867.mobi Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh Sayers http://feedbooks.com/book/3406 en 1923 Novels Crime/Mystery Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect at the same time a noted financier goes missing under strange circumstances. As the case progresses it becomes clear that the two events are linked in some way. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3406.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3406.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3406.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3406.mobi The Desert of Wheat Zane Grey http://feedbooks.com/book/1818 urn:isbn:0812578619 en 1919 Novels Western This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1818.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1818.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1818.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1818.mobi The Lees of Happiness Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://feedbooks.com/book/3435 en 1922 Short Fiction This short story was first published in the "Chicago Tribune," and first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "Of this story I can say that it came to me in an irresistible form, crying to be written. It will be accused perhaps of being a mere piece of sentimentality, but, as I saw it, it was a great deal more. If, therefore, it lacks the ring of sincerity, or even, of tragedy, the fault rests not with the theme but with my handling of it. It appeared in the "Chicago Tribune," and later obtained, I believe, the quadruple gold laurel leaf or some such encomium from one of the anthologists who at present swarm among us. The gentleman I refer to runs as a rule to stark melodramas with a volcano or the ghost of John Paul Jones in the role of Nemesis, melodramas carefully disguised by early paragraphs in Jamesian manner which hint dark and subtle complexities to follow. On this order: "The case of Shaw McPhee, curiously enough, had no hearing on the almost incredible attitude of Martin Sulo. This is parenthetical and, to at least three observers, whose names for the present I must conceal, it seems improbable, etc., etc., etc.," until the poor rat of fiction is at last forced out into the open and the melodrama begins." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3435.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3435.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3435.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3435.mobi "O Russet Witch!" Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://feedbooks.com/book/3434 en 1922 Short Fiction This short story was first published in the "Metropolitan," and first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "When this was written I had just completed the first draft of my second novel, and a natural reaction made me revel in a story wherein none of the characters need be taken seriously. And I'm afraid that I was somewhat carried away by the feeling that there was no ordered scheme to which I must conform. After due consideration, however, I have decided to let it stand as it is, although the reader may find himself somewhat puzzled at the time element. I had best say that however the years may have dealt with Merlin Grainger, I myself was thinking always in the present." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3434.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3434.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3434.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3434.mobi Tarquin of Cheapside Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://feedbooks.com/book/3433 en 1921 Short Fiction This short story was first published in the "Smart Set" in 1921, although it had been written 5 years previous. It was first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. "Written almost six years ago, this story is a product of undergraduate days at Princeton. Considerably revised, it was published in the "Smart Set" in 1921. At the time of its conception I had but one idea—to be a poet—and the fact that I was interested in the ring of every phrase, that I dreaded the obvious in prose if not in plot, shows throughout. Probably the peculiar affection I feel for it depends more upon its age than upon any intrinsic merit." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3433.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3433.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3433.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3433.mobi The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://feedbooks.com/book/3432 en 1922 Short Fiction The story tells of John T. Unger, a teenager from the town of Hades, Mississippi, who was sent to a private boarding school in Boston. During the summer he would visit the homes of his classmates, the vast majority of whom were from wealthy families. In the middle of his sophomore year, a young man named Percy Washington was placed in Unger's form. He would speak only to Unger, and then very rarely, but invited him for the summer to his home, the location of which he would only state as being "in the West", an invitation Unger accepted. During the train ride Percy boasted that his father was "by far the richest man in the world", and when challenged by Unger boasted that his father "has a diamond bigger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3432.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3432.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3432.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3432.mobi