Heretics Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://feedbooks.com/book/3679 urn:isbn:1595478736 en 1905 Non-Fiction Essay Collections Religion Though he was on the whole a fun loving and gregarious man, during adolescence Chesterton was troubled by thoughts of suicide. In Christianity he found answers to many of the dilemmas and paradoxes of life. Throughout Heretics he provides a very personal critique of contemporary religious notions. His consistently engaging but often wayward humour is mixed liberally with daring flights of fancy and some startling turns of thought. A highly original collection of essays, providing an invaluable contribution to one of the major debates of the last century - one that continues to exercise leading thinkers in the present one. 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This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3685.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3685.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3685.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3685.mobi The Innocence of Father Brown Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://feedbooks.com/book/3713 urn:isbn:1602068984 en 1911 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections Religion Twelve mysteries featuring Father Brown, the short, stumpy Catholic priest with "uncanny insight into human evil." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3713.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3713.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3713.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3713.mobi The Napoleon of Notting Hill Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://feedbooks.com/book/3683 urn:isbn:0955519624 en 1904 Novels Humor/Satire Politics The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly-unchanged London in 1984. Though the novel deals with the future, it concentrates not on technology nor on totalitarian government but on a government where no one cares what happens, comparable to Fahrenheit 451 in that respect. The dreary succession of randomly selected Kings of England is broken up when Auberon Quin, who cares for nothing but a good joke, is chosen. To amuse himself, he institutes elaborate costumes for the provosts of the districts of London. All are bored by the King's antics except for one earnest young man who takes the cry for regional pride seriously – Adam Wayne, the eponymous Napoleon of Notting Hill. While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: "Forward, my beauty, my Arab," he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, "fleetest of all thy bounding tribe"), it is also an adventure story: Chesterton is not afraid to let blood be drawn in his battles, fought with sword and halberd in the London streets, and Wayne thinks up a few ingenious strategies; and, finally, the novel is philosophical, considering the value of one man's actions and the virtue of respect for one's enemies. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3683.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3683.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3683.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3683.mobi The Wisdom of Father Brown Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://feedbooks.com/book/3724 urn:isbn:0755100352 en 1914 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections Religion From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest runs to earth bandits, traitors, killers. Why is he so successful? The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it. The stories included are "The Paradise of Thieves," "The Duel of Dr. Hirsch," "The Man in the Passage," "The Mistakes of the Machine," "The Head of the Caesar," "The Purple Wig," "The Perishing of the Pendragons," "The God of the Gongs," "The Salad of the Colonel Cray," "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois" and "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3724.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3724.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3724.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3724.mobi Eugenics and Other Evils Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://feedbooks.com/book/3719 urn:isbn:1587420023 en 1922 Philosophy Essay Science Collections Politics From the introduction: "I publish these essays at the present time for a particular reason connected with the present situation; a reason which I should like briefly to emphasise and make clear. Though most of the conclusions, especially towards the end, are conceived with reference to recent events, the actual bulk of preliminary notes about the science of Eugenics were written before the war.[...]" This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3719.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3719.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3719.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3719.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 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 Wild Knight and Other Poems Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://feedbooks.com/book/3702 urn:isbn:1406590991 en 1900 Poetry Collections This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3702.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3702.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3702.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3702.mobi Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll http://feedbooks.com/book/22 urn:isbn:0785824464 en 1897 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and enemies), and to the lessons that British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the most characteristic examples of the genre of literary nonsense, and its narrative course and structure has been enormously influential, mainly in the fantasy genre. http://feedbooks.com/book/22.png http://feedbooks.com/book/22.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/22.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/22.mobi The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie http://feedbooks.com/book/2058 urn:isbn:1579126227 en 1920 Novels Crime/Mystery In her first published mystery, Agatha Christie introduces readers to the heroic detective, Hercule Poirot. This is a classic murder mystery set in the outskirts of Essex. The victim is the wealthy mistress of Styles Court. The list of suspects is long and includes her gold-digging new spouse and stepsons, her doctor, and her hired companion. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/2058.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2058.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2058.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2058.mobi The Moonstone Wilkie Collins http://feedbooks.com/book/3311 en 1868 Novels Crime/Mystery Widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels, The Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond. T. S. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes of the genre, including a crime being investigated by talented amateurs who happen to be present when it is committed, and two police officers who exemplify respectively the 'Scotland Yard bungler' and the skilled, professional detective. http://feedbooks.com/book/3311.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3311.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3311.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3311.mobi The Woman in White Wilkie Collins http://feedbooks.com/book/3696 urn:isbn:0141439610 en 1860 Novels Crime/Mystery Thriller Gothic The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859–1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of 'sensation novels'. As was customary at that time, The Woman in White was first published as a magazine serial. The first episode appeared on 29 November 1859, following Charles Dickens's own A Tale of Two Cities in Dickens's magazine All the Year Round in England, and Harper's Magazine in America. It caused an immediate sensation. Julian Symons (in his 1974 introduction to the Penguin edition) reports that "queues formed outside the offices to buy the next instalment. Bonnets, perfumes, waltzes and quadrilles were called by the book's title. Gladstone cancelled a theatre engagement to go on reading it. And Prince Albert sent a copy to Baron Stockmar." (from Wikipedia) http://feedbooks.com/book/3696.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3696.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3696.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3696.mobi The Elements of Style William Strunk Jr. http://feedbooks.com/book/3697 urn:isbn:9562916464 en 1918 Non-Fiction The Elements of Style (also known as Strunk & White) is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the most influential and best-known prescriptive treatments of English grammar and usage in the United States. It originally detailed eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, and "a few matters of form" as well as a list of commonly misused words and expressions. Updated editions of the paperback book are often required reading for American high school and college composition classes. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3697.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3697.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3697.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3697.mobi His Last Bow Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/65 urn:isbn:0755334434 en 1917 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in American editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection. Originally published in 1917, it contains the various Holmes stories published between 1908 and 1913, as well as the one-off title story from 1917. The collection was originally called Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes and did not contain the actual story His Last Bow, which appeared later, after the full-length The Valley of Fear was published. However later editions added it and changed the title. Some recent complete editions have restored the earlier title. When the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes were published in the USA for the first time, the publishers believed "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" was too scandalous for the American public, since it dealt with the theme of adultery. As a result, this story was not published in the USA until many years later, when it was added to His Last Bow. Even today, most American editions of the canon include it with His Last Bow, while most British editions keep the story in its original place in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/65.png http://feedbooks.com/book/65.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/65.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/65.mobi A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/57 urn:isbn:1840224118 en 1887 Novels Crime/Mystery A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which was first published in 1887. It is the first story to feature the character of Sherlock Holmes, who would later become one of the most famous and iconic literary detective characters, with long-lasting interest and appeal. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to his companion Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/57.png http://feedbooks.com/book/57.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/57.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/57.mobi The Bishop and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov http://feedbooks.com/book/3810 urn:isbn:1438508336 en 1919 Short Fiction Collections A collection of various of Anton Chekhov's short stories including: THE BISHOP, THE LETTER, EASTER EVE, A NIGHTMARE, THE MURDER, UPROOTED, and THE STEPPE. http://feedbooks.com/book/3810.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3810.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3810.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3810.mobi The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie http://feedbooks.com/book/2059 urn:isbn:0451201205 en 1922 Novels Crime/Mystery Hiring themselves out as “young adventurers willing to do anything” is a smart move for Tommy and Tuppence. All Tuppence has to do is take an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris and pose as someone named Jane Finn. But with the job comes a threat to her life, and the disappearance of her mysterious employer. Now Tuppence’s newest job is playing detective—because if there’s a Jane Finn that really exists, she’s got a secret that’s putting both their lives in danger. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/2059.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2059.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2059.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2059.mobi The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/1 urn:isbn:068983571X en 1902 Novels Crime/Mystery The rich landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the park of his manor surrounded by the grim moor of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon. His death seems to have been caused by a heart attack, but the victim's best friend, Dr. Mortimer, is convinced that the strike was due to a supernatural creature, which haunts the moor in the shape of an enormous hound, with blazing eyes and jaws. In order to protect Baskerville's heir, Sir Henry, who's arriving to London from Canada, Dr. Mortimer asks for Sherlock Holmes' help, telling him also of the so-called Baskervilles' curse, according to which a monstrous hound has been haunting and killing the family males for centuries, in revenge for the misdeeds of one Sir Hugo Baskerville, who lived at the time of Oliver Cromwell. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1.mobi The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame http://feedbooks.com/book/3645 urn:isbn:0451530144 en 1908 Novels Young Readers Fantasy The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3645.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3645.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3645.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3645.mobi