A Matter of Interest Robert William Chambers http://feedbooks.com/book/1544 en 1897 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1544.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1544.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1544.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1544.mobi A Trip to Venus John Munro http://www.feedbooks.com/book/890 urn:isbn:1428013318 en 1897 Novels Science Fiction When evening came I turned to the books, and gathered a great deal about the fiery planet, including the fact that a stout man, a Daniel Lambert, could jump his own height there with the greatest ease. Very likely; but I was seeking information on the strange light, and as I could not find any I resolved to walk over and consult my old friend, Professor Gazen, the well-known astronomer, who had made his mark by a series of splendid researches with the spectroscope into the constitution of the sun and other celestial bodies. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/890.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/890.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/890.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/890.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 Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling http://feedbooks.com/book/3584 urn:isbn:1406819034 en 1897 Novels Young Readers Adventure The adventures of Harvey Chaney Jr., an arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen on the Grand Banks, Harvey cannot persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince them of his wealth. However, the captain of a passing schooner offers him a job as crew until they return to port. With no other choice, Harvey accepts, and there begins a series of trials and adventures where the boy learns to adjust to his rough new life, and takes the first steps towards becoming a man. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3584.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3584.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3584.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3584.mobi Dracula Bram Stoker http://feedbooks.com/book/88 urn:isbn:0743477367 en 1897 Novels Horror Gothic Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/88.png http://feedbooks.com/book/88.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/88.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/88.mobi Equality Edward Bellamy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/824 urn:isbn:1410100383 en 1897 Novels Science Fiction Politics The sequel to Bellamy's Looking Backward, his utopian novel of several years earlier, where a young man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes in a utopian year 2000, where all social ills are solved. This novel continues the thread of his utopian vision. Equality begins when Julian West returns to the year 2000 to continue his education. The book describes an ideal society in that year. Equality was published just before his death and was not received nearly as well as Looking Backward. Bellamy was born in 1850 in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. As a young man he studied law and entered the bar, but never practiced. He was a journalist and social theorist as well as a novelist. Bellamy's theory of public capitalism would greatly affect American political thought in the 20th century. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/824.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/824.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/824.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/824.mobi Facing the Flag Jules Verne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4311 en 1897 Novels Science Fiction Adventure Facing the Flag or For the Flag is a patriotic novel by Jules Verne. Like The Begum's Millions which Verne published in 1879 , it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally overcome through the force of French patriotism. It can be considered one of the first books dealing with problems which was to become paramount half a century after its publication: brilliant scientists discovering new weapons of great destructive power, whose full utilisation might literally destroy the world; the competition between various powers to obtain control of such weapons; and also the efforts of ruthless non-state groups to have it. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4311.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4311.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4311.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4311.mobi Karain, A Memory Joseph Conrad http://feedbooks.com/book/736 urn:isbn:0543899667 en 1897 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/736.png http://feedbooks.com/book/736.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/736.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/736.mobi Liza of Lambeth W. Somerset Maugham http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2050 urn:isbn:0140185933 en 1897 Novels Down among the drab slums of Lambeth, eighteen-year-old Liza is the darling of Vere Street. Vibrant and bewitching, she has found an adoring if conventional beau in Tom. When she meets Jim Blakeston, a married man new to the area, she is immediately magnetized by his attentions. But the streets are wise to their affair. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2050.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2050.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2050.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2050.mobi Pursuit of the House-Boat John Kendrick Bangs http://feedbooks.com/book/2840 en 1897 Novels Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/2840.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2840.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2840.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2840.mobi The Beetle Richard Marsh http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3759 urn:isbn:1840226099 en 1897 Novels Crime/Mystery Horror A fantastic creature, "born of neither god nor man," hypnotic and supernatural, stalks British politician Paul Lessingham through turn-of-the-century London. A classic tale of supernatural horror. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3759.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3759.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3759.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3759.mobi The Crystal Egg H. G. Wells http://feedbooks.com/book/595 urn:isbn:1842124021 en 1897 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/595.png http://feedbooks.com/book/595.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/595.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/595.mobi The Great White Queen William Le Queux http://feedbooks.com/book/3831 en 1897 Novels Science Fiction Fantasy A classic example of early "lost race" science-fiction. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3831.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3831.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3831.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3831.mobi The Invisible Man H. G. Wells http://feedbooks.com/book/34 urn:isbn:0451528522 en 1897 Novels Science Fiction The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novella by H.G. Wells. Wells' novel was originally serialised in Pearson's Magazine in 1897, and published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who theorises that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will be invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/34.png http://feedbooks.com/book/34.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/34.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/34.mobi The Lagoon Joseph Conrad http://feedbooks.com/book/13 urn:isbn:0192832220 en 1897 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/13.png http://feedbooks.com/book/13.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/13.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/13.mobi The Messenger Robert William Chambers http://feedbooks.com/book/1545 en 1897 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1545.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1545.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1545.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1545.mobi The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' Joseph Conrad http://feedbooks.com/book/718 urn:isbn:1406921297 en 1897 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/718.png http://feedbooks.com/book/718.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/718.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/718.mobi The Plattner Story H. G. Wells http://feedbooks.com/book/604 urn:isbn:1842124021 en 1897 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/604.png http://feedbooks.com/book/604.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/604.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/604.mobi The Return Joseph Conrad http://feedbooks.com/book/739 urn:isbn:1843910780 en 1897 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/739.png http://feedbooks.com/book/739.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/739.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/739.mobi The Star H. G. Wells http://feedbooks.com/book/607 urn:isbn:1842124021 en 1897 Short Fiction Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/607.png http://feedbooks.com/book/607.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/607.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/607.mobi