The Elusive Pimpernel Baroness Emma Orczy http://feedbooks.com/book/3575 urn:isbn:0755111133 en 1908 Novels History Adventure First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. It is September 1793 and French Agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is determined to get his revenge for the previous humiliations dished out to him at the hands of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Chauvelin travels to England as an official representative of the French government tasked with looking after the interests of French citizens, but this is only a cover and his real purpose is to trick Sir Percy Blakeney into returning to France, where he can be captured and put to the guillotine. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3575.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3575.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3575.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3575.mobi The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Emma Orczy http://feedbooks.com/book/3568 urn:isbn:014037454X en 1905 Novels History Adventure In this historical adventure set during the French Revolution, the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel sets out to rescue men, women and children facing the horrors of the guillotine, while evading the relentless pursuit of his arch enemy, Chauvelin. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3568.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3568.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3568.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3568.mobi I Will Repay Baroness Emma Orczy http://feedbooks.com/book/3574 urn:isbn:1599865696 en 1906 Novels History Adventure I Will Repay was written by Baroness Emmuska Orzcy and originally published in 1906, this is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orzcy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series and should be read after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel. The story starts before the French revolution. It's 1783 and wealthy Paul Déroulède has offended the young Vicomte de Marny by speaking disrepctfully of his latest infatuation, Adèle de Monterchéri. Déroulède had not intended to get into the quarrel but has a tendency to blunder into things -- "no doubt a part of the inheritance bequeathed to him by his bourgeois ancestry." Incensed at the slur on Adèle, who he sees as a paragon of virtue, the Vicomte challenges Déroulède to a duel, a fight which Déroulède does not want -- for he knows and respects the boy's father, the Duc de Marny. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3574.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3574.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3574.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3574.mobi El Dorado Baroness Emma Orczy http://feedbooks.com/book/3576 urn:isbn:0486440265 en 1913 Novels History Adventure Eldorado, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of the original book. A French language version, translated and adapted by Charlotte and Marie-Louise Desroyses, was also produced under the title La Capture du Mouron Rouge. As well as containing all the main characters from the first book, Eldorado introduces several new characters and features the Baron de Batz, who also turns up in Sir Percy Leads the Band and The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Baron Jean de Batz is a genuine historical figure). It is 1794 and Paris, "despite the horrors that had stained her walls - has remained a city of pleasure, and the knife of the guillotine did scarce descend more often than did the drop-scenes on the stage." The plot begins when Sir Percy reluctantly agrees to take Armand St. Just with him to France as part of a plan to rescue the young Dauphin. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3576.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3576.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3576.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3576.mobi Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson http://feedbooks.com/book/3578 urn:isbn:0141441798 en 1886 Novels History Adventure Politics Being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called. http://feedbooks.com/book/3578.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3578.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3578.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3578.mobi Louise de la Valliere Alexandre Dumas http://feedbooks.com/book/3600 urn:isbn:019953845X en 1849 Novels History Romance Adventure The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is the third and last of the d'Artagnan Romances following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form between 1847 and 1850. Louise de la Valliere is the third volume. http://feedbooks.com/book/3600.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3600.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3600.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3600.mobi The Double Traitor Edward Phillips Oppenheim http://feedbooks.com/book/3577 urn:isbn:0554127326 en 1915 Novels History Thriller A story of the diplomatic events leading up to the European War. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3577.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3577.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3577.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3577.mobi Twenty Years After Alexandre Dumas http://feedbooks.com/book/3586 urn:isbn:0192838431 en 1845 Novels History Romance Adventure The fantastic adventures of the Three Musketeers continue - starting with an intrigue surrounding D'Artagnan who has, for twenty years, remained a lieutenant. http://feedbooks.com/book/3586.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3586.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3586.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3586.mobi The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope http://feedbooks.com/book/3582 urn:isbn:0141033746 en 1894 Novels Romance Adventure Thriller The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is abducted on the eve of his coronation, and the protagonist, an English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situation. The villainous Rupert of Hentzau gave his name to the sequel published in 1898, which is included in some editions of this novel. The books were extremely popular and inspired a new genre of Ruritanian romance, including the Graustark novels by George Barr McCutcheon. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3582.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3582.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3582.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3582.mobi The Vicomte of Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas http://feedbooks.com/book/3588 urn:isbn:0199538476 en 1847 Novels History Romance Adventure The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is the third and last of the d'Artagnan Romances following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form between 1847 and 1850. The Vicomte of Bragelonne is the first volume of this work relating the events of 1660. http://feedbooks.com/book/3588.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3588.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3588.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3588.mobi The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/1421 urn:isbn:0199536953 en 1892 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on October 14, 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on October 15 by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1421.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1421.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1421.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1421.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 Ten Years Later Alexandre Dumas http://feedbooks.com/book/3596 urn:isbn:1605896160 en 1848 Novels History Romance Adventure The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is the third and last of the d'Artagnan Romances following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form between 1847 and 1850. Ten Years Later is the second volume. http://feedbooks.com/book/3596.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3596.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3596.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3596.mobi The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo http://feedbooks.com/book/3580 urn:isbn:0451527887 en 1831 Novels History Romance The Hunchback of Notre Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris) is an 1831 French novel written by Victor Hugo. It is set in 1482 in Paris, in and around the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. The book tells the story of a poor barefoot Gypsy girl (La Esmeralda) and a misshapen bell-ringer (Quasimodo) who was raised by the Archdeacon (Claude Frollo). The book was written as a statement to preserve the Notre Dame cathedral and not to 'modernize' it, as Hugo was thoroughly against this. The story begins during the Renaissance in 1482, the day of the Festival of Fools in Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer, is introduced by his crowning as Pope of Fools. Esméralda, a beautiful 16-year-old gypsy with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men but especially Quasimodo’s adopted father, Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his lust and the rules of the church. He orders Quasimodo to get her. Quasimodo is caught and whipped and ordered to be tied down in the heat. Esméralda seeing his thirst, offers him water. It saves her, for she captures the heart of the hunchback. http://feedbooks.com/book/3580.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3580.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3580.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3580.mobi Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling http://feedbooks.com/book/3584 urn:isbn:1406819034 en 1897 Novels Young Readers Adventure The adventures of Harvey Chaney Jr., an arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen on the Grand Banks, Harvey cannot persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince them of his wealth. However, the captain of a passing schooner offers him a job as crew until they return to port. With no other choice, Harvey accepts, and there begins a series of trials and adventures where the boy learns to adjust to his rough new life, and takes the first steps towards becoming a man. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3584.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3584.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3584.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3584.mobi The Panchronicon Harold Steele MacKaye http://feedbooks.com/book/3573 urn:isbn:0548548641 en 1904 Novels Science Fiction A novel about time travel. Excerpt: "Don't have to keep count," he replied. "See that indicator?" he continued, pointing to a dial in the ceiling which had not been noticed before. "That reads May 3, 1898, now, don't it? Well, it's fixed to keep always tellin' the right date. It counts the whirls we make an' keeps tabs on every day we go backward. Any time all ye hev to do is to read that thing an' it'll tell ye jest what day 'tis." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3573.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3573.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3573.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3573.mobi The Gift of the Magi O. Henry http://feedbooks.com/book/3504 urn:isbn:141693586X en 1906 Short Fiction Jim Dillingham Young and his wife Della are a young couple who are very much in love with each other, but can barely afford their one-room apartment opposite the elevated train due to their very bad economic condition. For Christmas, Della decides to buy Jim a chain which costs twenty dollars for his prized pocket watch given to him by his father. To raise the funds, she has her prized long hair cut off and sold to make a wig. Meanwhile, Jim decides to sell his watch to buy Della a beautiful set of combs made out of tortoise shell for her lovely, knee-length brown hair. Although each is disappointed to find the gift they chose rendered useless, each is pleased with the gift they received, because it represents their love for one another. The true unselfish love that the characters, Jim and Della, share is greater than their possessions. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3504.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3504.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3504.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3504.mobi The Man Who Would be King Rudyard Kipling http://feedbooks.com/book/3771 en 1888 Short Fiction Adventure The Man Who Would be King (1888) is a short story by Rudyard Kipling chronicling the adventures of two British men who become kings in Kafiristan (now a province of Afghanistan). This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3771.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3771.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3771.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3771.mobi The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/63 urn:isbn:078581325X en 1905 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The book was first published on March 7, 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd and in a Colonial edition by Longmans. 30,000 copies were made of the initial print run. The US edition by McClure, Phillips & Co. added another 28,000 to the run. This was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Adventure of the Final Problem". Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901–1902 (although setting it before Holmes' death) Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/63.png http://feedbooks.com/book/63.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/63.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/63.mobi The Son of the Wolf Jack London http://feedbooks.com/book/2849 urn:isbn:019283486X en 1900 Short Fiction Adventure Collections Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. This, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon. The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the qualities of exceptional women and on the relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/2849.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2849.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2849.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2849.mobi