Among The Pathans William Murray Graydon http://feedbooks.com/book/3542 en 1891 Short Fiction Adventure War Excerpt: When Jack Chetwynd dropped into the Bundar Cafe at Delhi one scorching afternoon in September of last year and informed me that we were ordered off to the Punjaub, I could have shouted for joy. I did not do it, though, for I well knew how scornfully Jack would regard any such demonstration. I merely nodded my head, lazily, and went on reading the Post with as much calmness as if such news was a mere every day affair. "Yes, my boy," went on Jack, dropping into a chair and ordering a lemon squash, "we are going to have some fun. You know those rascally Pathans killed two or three of our fellows near the frontier station at Oghi some time ago, so an expedition is going up to give them a drubbing for it. It's a deuce of a country, they say, that Black Mountain region, and these Pathans are terrible fellows, too; fight like tigers. Plenty of chance for glory there, Charlie; so prepare yourself!" This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3542.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3542.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3542.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3542.mobi Born In Exile George Gissing http://feedbooks.com/book/341 urn:isbn:1426417969 en 1891 Novels http://feedbooks.com/book/341.png http://feedbooks.com/book/341.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/341.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/341.mobi John Charrington’s Wedding Edith Nesbit http://feedbooks.com/book/1313 en 1891 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1313.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1313.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1313.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1313.mobi Men of Iron Howard Pyle http://feedbooks.com/book/4140 en 1891 Novels Young Readers History Adventure War Men of Iron is an 1891 novel by the American author Howard Pyle, who also illustrated it. It is juvenile coming of age work in which the author has the reader experience the medieval entry into knighthood through the eyes of a young squire, Myles Falworth. In Chapter 24 the knighthood ceremony is presented and described as it would be in a non-fiction work on knighthood and chivalry. Descriptions of training equipment are also given throughout. It comprises 68,334 words and is divided into 33 unnamed chapters, an introduction, and a conclusion. It was made into a film in 1954, The Black Shield of Falworth. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/4140.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4140.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4140.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4140.mobi New Grub Street George Gissing http://www.feedbooks.com/book/68 urn:isbn:0192836587 en 1891 Novels The story is about the literary world of late-Victorian London that Gissing inhabited, and its title, New Grub Street, alludes to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synonymous with the "hack writing" that pervades Gissing's novel; Grub Street itself was no longer extant when Gissing was writing. The novel contrasts Edwin Reardon, a congenitally uncommercial but talented writer, against Jasper Milvain, a selfish and unscrupulous hack who rejects artistic endeavour for material gain. Milvain's trite, manipulative work ascends while Reardon's work--and his life--spiral downward. The novel suggests that the literary world rewards materialistic self-promotion more than serious artistic sensibility. Gissing's biography--a respected writer who struggled for a long time to obtain commercial success--strongly suggests the novel is autobiographical, the author's stand-in being (of course) Reardon. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/68.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/68.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/68.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/68.mobi Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy http://feedbooks.com/book/2699 urn:isbn:0199537054 en 1891 Novels Romance Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice. Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as "a pure woman," caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/2699.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2699.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2699.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2699.mobi The Bridge of the Gods Frederic Homer Balch http://feedbooks.com/book/3944 en 1891 Novels Adventure Western This tale of the Indians of the far West has fairly earned its lasting popularity, not only by the intense interest of the story, but by its faithful delineations of Indian character. http://feedbooks.com/book/3944.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3944.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3944.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3944.mobi The Chaperon Henry James http://feedbooks.com/book/431 urn:isbn:1883011094 en 1891 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/431.png http://feedbooks.com/book/431.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/431.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/431.mobi The Damned (Là-bas) Joris-Karl Huysmans http://feedbooks.com/book/1242 en 1891 Novels http://feedbooks.com/book/1242.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1242.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1242.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1242.mobi The Honor of the Name Émile Gaboriau http://feedbooks.com/book/3730 urn:isbn:0554004844 en 1891 Novels History Crime/Mystery Adventure Fifth book in the "Monsieur Lecoq" series and the sequel to "Monsieur Lecoq". http://feedbooks.com/book/3730.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3730.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3730.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3730.mobi The Marriages Henry James http://feedbooks.com/book/432 urn:isbn:1883011094 en 1891 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/432.png http://feedbooks.com/book/432.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/432.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/432.mobi The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde http://feedbooks.com/book/6 urn:isbn:0375751513 en 1891 Novels Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting influence, and a few years later the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted in his imprisonment. Of the book's value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages, perhaps." http://feedbooks.com/book/6.png http://feedbooks.com/book/6.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/6.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/6.mobi