The Blue Fairy Book Andrew Lang http://feedbooks.com/book/4037 en 1889 Short Fiction Young Readers Fantasy Collections Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories. The Blue Fairy Book assembled a wide range of tales, with seven from the Brothers Grimm, five from Madame d'Aulnoy, three from the Arabian Nights, and four Norse stories, among other sources. (wikipedia) This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/4037.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4037.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4037.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4037.mobi The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation Louisa May Alcott http://feedbooks.com/book/3520 en 1867 Short Fiction Romance Ghost Stories A christmas story from the writer of Little Women. http://feedbooks.com/book/3520.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3520.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3520.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3520.mobi Little Women Louisa May Alcott http://feedbooks.com/book/139 urn:isbn:0517214628 en 1868 Novels Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, the novel follows the lives of four sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March — and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The first part of the book was an immediate commercial and critical success and prompted the composition of the book's second part, also a huge success. Both parts were first published as a single volume in 1880. The book is an unquestioned American classic. http://feedbooks.com/book/139.png http://feedbooks.com/book/139.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/139.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/139.mobi Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen http://feedbooks.com/book/4022 en 1872 Short Fiction Young Readers Fantasy Collections Hans Christian Andersen began publishing his Fairy Tales in 1835. This collection of 127 of the stories was translated by Mrs. Paull in 1872. http://feedbooks.com/book/4022.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4022.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4022.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4022.mobi A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett http://feedbooks.com/book/4155 en 1903 Novels Young Readers Generations of children have treasured the story of Sara Crewe, the little girl who imagines she's a princess in order to survive hard times at Miss Minchins London boarding school. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/4155.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4155.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4155.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4155.mobi The Magic City Edith Nesbit http://feedbooks.com/book/1607 urn:isbn:1406530743 en 1910 Novels Young Readers Fantasy An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1607.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1607.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1607.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1607.mobi Anne of Avonlea Lucy Maud Montgomery http://feedbooks.com/book/3197 urn:isbn:1402754280 en 1909 Novels Young Readers Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from Anne of Green Gables, as well as new ones like Mr Harrison, Miss Lavendar Lewis, Paul Irving, and the twins Dora and Davy. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3197.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3197.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3197.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3197.mobi Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery http://feedbooks.com/book/2776 en 1908 Novels Young Readers Marilla Cuthbert and Matthew Cuthbert, middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt a boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia as a helper on their farm. Through a series of mishaps, the person who ends up under their roof is a precocious girl of eleven named Anne Shirley. Anne is bright and quick, eager to please but dissatisfied with her name, her pale countenance dotted with freckles, and with her long braids of red hair. Being a child of imagination, however, Anne takes much joy in life, and adapts quickly, thriving in the environment of Prince Edward Island. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/2776.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2776.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2776.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2776.mobi Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray http://feedbooks.com/book/1469 urn:isbn:1593083653 en 1848 Novels “I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year,” observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest—and most appealing—women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair, a wonderfully satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Scorned for her lack of money and breeding, Becky must use all her wit, charm and considerable sex appeal to escape her drab destiny as a governess. From London’s ballrooms to the battlefields of Waterloo, the bewitching Becky works her wiles on a gallery of memorable characters, including her lecherous employer, Sir Pitt, his rich sister, Miss Crawley, and Pitt’s dashing son, Rawdon, the first of Becky’s misguided sexual entanglements. Filled with hilarious dialogue and superb characterizations, Vanity Fair is a richly entertaining comedy that asks the reader, “Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?” http://feedbooks.com/book/1469.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1469.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1469.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1469.mobi Lady Susan Jane Austen http://feedbooks.com/book/3922 urn:isbn:0140431020 en 1794 Novels Romance Humor/Satire Austen's "most wicked tale," Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. Lady Susan is a selfish, attractive woman, who tries to trap the best possible husband while maintaining a relationship with a married man. She subverts all the standards of the romantic novel; she has an active role, she's not only beautiful but intelligent and witty, and her suitors are significantly younger than she is. Source: Wikipedia http://feedbooks.com/book/3922.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3922.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3922.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3922.mobi Mansfield Park Jane Austen http://feedbooks.com/book/358 urn:isbn:019280264X en 1814 Novels At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. She gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund, but when the dazzling and sophisticated Crawfords arrive, and amateur theatricals unleash rivalry and sexual jealousy, Fanny has to fight to retain her independence. http://feedbooks.com/book/358.png http://feedbooks.com/book/358.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/358.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/358.mobi Northanger Abbey Jane Austen http://feedbooks.com/book/357 urn:isbn:0375759174 en 1817 Novels Gothic Jane Austen’s first novel, Northanger Abbey—published posthumously in 1818—tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen’s fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature. The satirical Northanger Abbey pokes fun at the gothic novel while earnestly emphasizing caution to the female sex. http://feedbooks.com/book/357.png http://feedbooks.com/book/357.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/357.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/357.mobi Anne of the Island Lucy Maud Montgomery http://feedbooks.com/book/3272 en 1915 Novels Young Readers Romance This is the continuing story of Anne Shirley and the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne attends Redmond College in Kingsport, where she is studying for her BA. The book is dedicated to "all the girls all over the world who have "wanted more" about ANNE." There was a gap of six years between the publications of Anne of Avonlea and the publication of this book. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3272.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3272.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3272.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3272.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 Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle Victor Appleton http://feedbooks.com/book/2327 urn:isbn:B0013E1DNK en 1910 Novels Young Readers Science Fiction Adventure Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2327.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2327.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2327.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2327.mobi The Story of the Amulet Edith Nesbit http://feedbooks.com/book/1602 urn:isbn:0140367527 en 1905 Novels Young Readers Fantasy When Cyril, Robert, Anthea and Jane rescue the magic sand-fairy from a pet shop, they have no idea of the astonishing adventures to come! This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1602.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1602.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1602.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1602.mobi The Railway Children Edith Nesbit http://feedbooks.com/book/4150 en 1906 Novels Young Readers The story concerns a family who move to a house near the railway after the father is imprisoned as a result of being falsely accused of selling state secrets to the Russians. The three children, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis, find amusement in watching the trains on the nearby railway line and waving to the passengers. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/4150.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4150.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4150.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4150.mobi The Enchanted Castle Edith Nesbit http://feedbooks.com/book/1599 urn:isbn:0140367438 en 1907 Novels Young Readers Fantasy An invisible princess, a magic ring, and more adventures than you could dream of. This is what Gerald, Kathleen and Jimmy find when they stumble upon a mysterious castle. At first it all appears to be a lark. But the children soon discover they need all their bravery and ingenuity to contend with the castle's supernatural forces. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1599.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1599.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1599.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1599.mobi Anthem Ayn Rand http://feedbooks.com/book/2837 urn:isbn:0452281253 en 1938 Novels Science Fiction Psychology Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, first published in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age as a result of the evils of irrationality and collectivism and the weaknesses of socialistic thinking and economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur at all) and the concept of individuality has been eliminated (for example, the word "I" has disappeared from the language). As is common in her work, Rand draws a clear distinction between the "socialist/communal" values of equality and brotherhood and the "productive/capitalist" values of achievement and individuality. Many of the novella's core themes, such as the struggle between individualism and collectivism, are echoed in Rand's later books, such as The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. However, the style of "Anthem" is unique among Rand's work, more narrative-centered and economical, lacking the intense didactic expressions of philosophical abstraction that occur in later works. It is probably her most accessible work. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2837.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2837.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2837.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2837.mobi Agnes Grey Anne Brontë http://feedbooks.com/book/4071 urn:isbn:0199536635 en 1847 Novels Agnes Grey is an 1847 novel written by English author Anne Brontë. The novel is about a governess of that name and is said to be based on Brontë's own experiences in the field. It was Brontë's first novel. Similar to her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, this is a novel that addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman. The Irish novelist George Moore praised Agnes Grey as "the most perfect prose narrative in English letters." http://feedbooks.com/book/4071.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4071.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4071.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4071.mobi