Armadale Wilkie Collins http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3966 en 1866 Novels Crime/Mystery <p>Armadale (1866) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century semi-epistolary novel. Some chapters consist of letters between the various characters, while other chapters record the events as the characters perceive them. <br />The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. Many years are skipped over. The son, mistreated at home, runs away from his mother and stepfather, and takes up a wandering life under the assumed name of Ozias Midwinter. He becomes a companion to the other Allan Armadale, who throughout the novel never discovers the relationship. But Ozias is constantly haunted by feeling that he might harm Allan, first after he reads the letter left for him, and then again after they spend the night on a shipwreck off the Isle of Man--the ship turning out to be the same on which the old murder took place (the murderer locked his victim in a cabin as the boat filled with water). On the boat, Allan has a mysterious dream involving three characters. This dream fills Ozias with foreboding, its three scenes becoming fulfilled in the course of the novel.</p> http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3966.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3966.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3966.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3966.mobi Crime and Punishment Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://feedbooks.com/book/38 urn:isbn:0679420290 en 1866 Novels Psychology <p>The poverty-stricken Raskolnikov, believing he is exempt from moral law, murders a man only to face the consequences not only from society but from his conscience, in this seminal story of justice, morality, and redemption from one of Russia's greatest novelists.</p> http://feedbooks.com/book/38.png http://feedbooks.com/book/38.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/38.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/38.mobi Mugby Junction Charles Dickens http://feedbooks.com/book/690 urn:isbn:1426409419 en 1866 Short Fiction http://feedbooks.com/book/690.png http://feedbooks.com/book/690.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/690.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/690.mobi The Belton Estate Anthony Trollope http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2163 en 1866 Novels http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2163.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2163.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2163.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2163.mobi The Lerouge Case Émile Gaboriau http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3726 urn:isbn:1406517119 en 1866 Novels Crime/Mystery <p>Excerpt: <br />"Those who anticipated the discovery of a crime, were unhappily not deceived. The commissary was convinced of this as soon as he crossed the threshold. Everything in the first room pointed with a sad eloquence to the recent presence of a malefactor. The furniture was knocked about, and a chest of drawers and two large trunks had been forced and broken open."</p> http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3726.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3726.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3726.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3726.mobi The Signal-Man Charles Dickens http://feedbooks.com/book/689 en 1866 Short Fiction Horror http://feedbooks.com/book/689.png http://feedbooks.com/book/689.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/689.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/689.mobi