A Kidnapped Santa Claus Lyman Frank Baum http://feedbooks.com/book/325 urn:isbn:1434899241 en 1904 Short Fiction Fantasy Santa Claus lives in the Laughing Valley, where stands the big, rambling castle in which his toys are manufactured. His workmen, selected from the ryls, knooks, pixies and fairies, live with him, and every one is as busy as can be from one year's end to another. On one side is the mighty Forest of Burzee. At the other side stands the huge mountain that contains the Caves of the Daemons. And between them the Valley lies smiling and peaceful. One would think that our good old Santa Claus, who devotes his days to making children happy, would have no enemies on all the earth; and, as a matter of fact, for a long period of time he encountered nothing but love wherever he might go. But the Daemons who live in the mountain caves grew to hate Santa Claus very much, and all for the simple reason that he made children happy. One Christmas Eve, they decided to take action! This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/325.png http://feedbooks.com/book/325.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/325.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/325.mobi A Texas Matchmaker Andy Adams http://feedbooks.com/book/911 urn:isbn:1406504106 en 1904 Novels Western From the writer and genuine Western Trail cattle driver, responsible for some of the best and most realistic accounts of cowboy life in literature. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/911.png http://feedbooks.com/book/911.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/911.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/911.mobi Atoms of Empire Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3445 en 1904 Short Fiction Collections The wandering Englishman, the atom of empire, at sundry ends of the earth is not always good company in the flesh, but in Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne's stories he is good company. For the reader is not in the position of the "native"; he is, on the contrary, elected of the company of proper Britons and talked to as an equal. Those who try this book will have no sharp regrets. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3445.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3445.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3445.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3445.mobi Beverly of Graustark George Barr McCutcheon http://feedbooks.com/book/3898 en 1904 Novels Romance Beverly is a bewitching American girl who has gone to that stirring little principality--Graustark--to visit her friend the princess, and there has a romantic affair of her own. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3898.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3898.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3898.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3898.mobi Born Again Alfred William Lawson http://feedbooks.com/book/2589 en 1904 Novels Science Fiction A strangely bad Utopian fantasy written while Lawson was a professional baseball player. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/2589.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2589.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2589.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2589.mobi Cabbages and Kings O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3592 urn:isbn:0559579195 en 1904 Short Fiction Collections Humor/Satire A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. In this book, O. Henry coined the term "banana republic". This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3592.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3592.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3592.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3592.mobi Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Montague Rhodes James http://feedbooks.com/book/3677 urn:isbn:0809593912 en 1904 Short Fiction Collections Ghost Stories Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is the title of M. R. James' first collection of ghost stories, published in 1904 (some had previously appeared in magazines). Some later editions under this title contain both the original collection and its successor, More Ghost Stories (1911), combined in one volume. Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3677.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3677.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3677.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3677.mobi In Search of the Unknown Robert William Chambers http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1500 urn:isbn:1419125826 en 1904 Novels Science Fiction Fantasy The stories feature a man who searches for lost species -- animals not seen for centuries -- and as we follow him on these journeys we're introduced to a variety of amazing creatures including the half-man, half-amphibian called "the harbor master". This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1500.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1500.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1500.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1500.mobi Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad http://feedbooks.com/book/31 urn:isbn:014018371X en 1904 Novels Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, this work is an illustration of the impact of foreign exploitation on a developing nation. As Sulaco, site of an English/American controlled silver mine establishes its independence, its ideals are inevitably compromised. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/31.png http://feedbooks.com/book/31.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/31.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/31.mobi Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1016 urn:isbn:1600963277 en 1904 Novels Adventure This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1016.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1016.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1016.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1016.mobi The Brethren Henry Rider Haggard http://www.feedbooks.com/book/968 urn:isbn:1600961223 en 1904 Novels Adventure This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/968.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/968.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/968.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/968.mobi The Faith of Men & Other Stories Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3143 en 1904 Short Fiction Adventure Collections Tales from the Klondike. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3143.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3143.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3143.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3143.mobi The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/594 urn:isbn:0486448460 en 1904 Novels Science Fiction Two scientists devise a compound that produces enormous plants, animals — and humans! The chilling results are disastrous. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/594.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/594.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/594.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/594.mobi The Gates of Chance Van Tassel Sutphen http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2521 urn:isbn:1404364447 en 1904 Novels Adventure This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2521.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2521.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2521.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2521.mobi The Golden Bowl Henry James http://www.feedbooks.com/book/483 urn:isbn:0192835424 en 1904 Novels Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective spouses. The novel focuses deeply and almost exclusively on the consciousness of the central characters, with sometimes obsessive detail but also with powerful insight. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/483.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/483.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/483.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/483.mobi The International Spy Allen Upward http://feedbooks.com/book/4409 en 1904 Novels War Thriller Being the secret history of the Russo-Japanese War: In this story the author makes clear the sinking of the English fishing schooners by the Baltic fleet of Russia and brings in all kinds of events that seemed hallucinations when the story appeared serially, but which have since come true in startling manner. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/4409.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4409.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4409.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4409.mobi The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories B.M. Bower http://www.feedbooks.com/book/932 urn:isbn:1426480385 en 1904 Short Fiction Collections Western A man is very much like a horse. Once thoroughly frightened by something he meets on the road he will invariably shy at the same place afterwards until a wisely firm master leads him perforce to the spot and proves beyond all doubt that the danger is of his own imagining; after which he will throw up his head and deny that he ever was afraid and be quite amusingly sincere in the denial. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/932.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/932.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/932.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/932.mobi The Marvelous Land of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/202 urn:isbn:0064409635 en 1904 Novels Young Readers Fantasy First issued in 1904, L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz is the story of the wonderful adventures of the young boy named Tip as he travels throughout the many lands of Oz. Here he meets with our old friends the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, as well as some new friends like Jack Pumpkinhead, the Wooden Sawhorse, the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, and the amazing Gump. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/202.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/202.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/202.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/202.mobi The Master of the World Jules Verne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2452 urn:isbn:1406501808 en 1904 Novels Science Fiction Evil master criminal sets out for world domination from the French pioneer of Science Fiction. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2452.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2452.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2452.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2452.mobi The Napoleon of Notting Hill Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3683 urn:isbn:0955519624 en 1904 Novels Humor/Satire Politics The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly-unchanged London in 1984. Though the novel deals with the future, it concentrates not on technology nor on totalitarian government but on a government where no one cares what happens, comparable to Fahrenheit 451 in that respect. The dreary succession of randomly selected Kings of England is broken up when Auberon Quin, who cares for nothing but a good joke, is chosen. To amuse himself, he institutes elaborate costumes for the provosts of the districts of London. All are bored by the King's antics except for one earnest young man who takes the cry for regional pride seriously – Adam Wayne, the eponymous Napoleon of Notting Hill. While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: "Forward, my beauty, my Arab," he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, "fleetest of all thy bounding tribe"), it is also an adventure story: Chesterton is not afraid to let blood be drawn in his battles, fought with sword and halberd in the London streets, and Wayne thinks up a few ingenious strategies; and, finally, the novel is philosophical, considering the value of one man's actions and the virtue of respect for one's enemies. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3683.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3683.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3683.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3683.mobi