A House-Boat on the Styx John Kendrick Bangs http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2839 urn:isbn:8184569297 en 1895 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Fantasy Collections The book begins with Charon, ferryman of the Styx startled--and annoyed--by the arrival of a house boat on his mystical river. At first afraid that the boat will put him out of business, he later finds out that he is to be appointed the boat's janitor. What follows are eleven stories set on the house boat. There is no central theme; each chapter features various souls from history and mythology, and in the twelfth chapter the house boat disappears, seguing into the sequel, Pursuit of the House-Boat. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2839.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2839.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2839.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2839.mobi Almayer's Folly Joseph Conrad http://www.feedbooks.com/book/716 urn:isbn:0375760148 en 1895 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/716.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/716.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/716.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/716.mobi Heart of the World Henry Rider Haggard http://www.feedbooks.com/book/994 urn:isbn:1600961479 en 1895 Novels Adventure This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/994.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/994.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/994.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/994.mobi Joan Haste Henry Rider Haggard http://www.feedbooks.com/book/998 urn:isbn:1402161948 en 1895 Novels Adventure This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/998.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/998.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/998.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/998.mobi Jude The Obscure Thomas Hardy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/753 urn:isbn:0486452433 en 1895 Novels Hardy's masterpiece traces a poor stonemason's ill-fated romance with his free-spirited cousin. No Victorian institution is spared — marriage, religion, education — and the outrage following publication led the embittered author to renounce fiction. Modern critics hail this novel as a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/753.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/753.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/753.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/753.mobi Lilith George MacDonald http://feedbooks.com/book/3414 en 1895 Novels Fantasy Lilith is a fantasy novel written by Scottish writer George MacDonald and first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in September 1969. Lilith is considered among the darkest of MacDonald's works, and among the most profound. It is a story concerning the nature of life, death and salvation. Many believe MacDonald is arguing for Christian universalism, or the idea that all will eventually be saved. Mr. Vane, the protagonist of Lilith, owns a library that seems to be haunted by the former librarian, who looks much like a raven from the brief glimpses he catches of the wraith. After finally encountering the supposed ghost, the mysterious Mr. Raven, Vane learns that Raven had known his father; indeed, Vane's father had visited the strange parallel universe from which Raven comes and goes and now resides therein. Vane follows Raven into the world through a mirror (this symbolistic realm is described as "the region of the seven dimensions", a term taken from Jacob Boehme). Source: Wikipedia http://feedbooks.com/book/3414.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3414.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3414.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3414.mobi Master and Man Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/138 en 1895 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/138.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/138.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/138.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/138.mobi Prince Zaleski Matthew Phipps Shiel http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2657 urn:isbn:1406569925 en 1895 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2657.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2657.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2657.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2657.mobi The Big Bow Mystery Israel Zangwill http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3711 urn:isbn:0976654636 en 1895 Novels Crime/Mystery One of the earliest "locked room" mysteries. All of the clues are in the story -- but you'll be surprised by the ending! This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3711.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3711.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3711.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3711.mobi The Cone H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/616 urn:isbn:1842124021 en 1895 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/616.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/616.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/616.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/616.mobi The Crack of Doom Robert Cromie http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2877 urn:isbn:B000WCWVR6 en 1895 Novels Science Fiction The rough notes from which this narrative has been constructed were given to me by the man who tells the story. For obvious reasons I have altered the names of the principals, and I hereby pass on the assurance which I have received, that the originals of such as are left alive can be found if their discovery be thought desirable. This alteration of names, the piecing together of somewhat disconnected and sometimes nearly indecipherable memoranda, and the reduction of the mass to consecutive form, are all that has been required of me or would have been permitted to me. The expedition to Labrador mentioned by the narrator has not returned, nor has it ever been definitely traced. He does not undertake to prove that it ever set out. But he avers that all which is hereafter set down is truly told, and he leaves it to mankind to accept the warning which it has fallen to him to convey, or await the proof of its sincerity which he believes the end of the century will produce. (Often quoted as being the first reference to the idea of an atomic bomb.) http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2877.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2877.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2877.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2877.mobi The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651 urn:isbn:1585790192 en 1895 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Biography Grahame’s reminiscences are notable for their conception “of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult ‘Olympians’ who have wholly forgotten how it feels to be young”--a theme later explored by J. M. Barrie and other authors. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.mobi The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4152 en 1895 Plays Humor/Satire Set in England during the late Victorian era, the play's humour derives in part from characters maintaining fictitious identities to escape unwelcome social obligations. It is replete with witty dialogue and satirizes some of the foibles and hypocrisy of late Victorian society. It has proved Wilde's most enduringly popular play. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4152.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4152.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4152.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4152.mobi The King in Yellow Robert William Chambers http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1376 urn:isbn:0486437507 en 1895 Short Fiction Horror Collections This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1376.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1376.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1376.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1376.mobi The Lost Stradivarius John Meade Falkner http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1605 urn:isbn:1434624242 en 1895 Novels Horror Ghost Stories The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case an extremely fine Stradivarius violin. After finding the violin of the title in a hidden compartment in his college rooms, the protagonist, a wealthy young heir, becomes increasingly secretive as well as obsessed by a particular piece of music, which seems to have the power to call up the ghost of its previous owner. Roaming from England to Italy, the story involves family love, lordly depravity, and the tragedy of obsession, all conveyed in a "high" serious tone not uncommon in late Victorian literature. Preceding M.R. James's ghost stories by several years, it has been called the novel James might have written, had he written novels. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1605.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1605.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1605.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1605.mobi The Moth H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/624 urn:isbn:1842124021 en 1895 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/624.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/624.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/624.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/624.mobi The Novel of the Black Seal Arthur Machen http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1172 urn:isbn:1419175750 en 1895 Short Fiction Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1172.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1172.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1172.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1172.mobi The Novel of the White Powder Arthur Machen http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1178 urn:isbn:141918525X en 1895 Short Fiction Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1178.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1178.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1178.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1178.mobi The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/631 urn:isbn:1842124021 en 1895 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/631.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/631.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/631.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/631.mobi The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3090 urn:isbn:B0014O4DRW en 1895 Novels Fantasy The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894-5, often under different titles. The book is less well-known than the original. 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