A Room with a View E. M. Forster http://feedbooks.com/book/2068 urn:isbn:0553213237 en 1908 Novels Romance This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson—who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist—Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/2068.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2068.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2068.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2068.mobi Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery http://feedbooks.com/book/2776 en 1908 Novels Young Readers Marilla Cuthbert and Matthew Cuthbert, middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt a boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia as a helper on their farm. Through a series of mishaps, the person who ends up under their roof is a precocious girl of eleven named Anne Shirley. Anne is bright and quick, eager to please but dissatisfied with her name, her pale countenance dotted with freckles, and with her long braids of red hair. Being a child of imagination, however, Anne takes much joy in life, and adapts quickly, thriving in the environment of Prince Edward Island. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/2776.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2776.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2776.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2776.mobi Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://feedbooks.com/book/207 urn:isbn:0688098266 en 1908 Novels Young Readers Fantasy A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground. Deep beneath the earth, Dorothy is reunited with her old friend the Wizard of Oz and his troupe of nine tiny piglets. Together, Dorothy, the Wizard, and their friends travel through many fantastic lands, where they encounter the Mangaboos, people growing like vegetables in the ground; cross the Valley of Voe, where dama-fruit has turned everyone invisible; and are captured by mysterious flying Gargoyles. At last, the intrepid travelers reach Oz, where they have many unforgettable encounters with such favorites as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger, Princess Ozma and the wooden Sawhorse. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/207.png http://feedbooks.com/book/207.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/207.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/207.mobi Five Thousand Miles Underground Roy Rockwood http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2465 urn:isbn:1406562866 en 1908 Novels Young Readers Science Fiction Adventure Dismantling the dirigible-ship Monarch & the submarine Porpoise, our crew constructs from the combined parts the Flying Mermaid which is both airship & submarine. They leave their home in Maine & head for a region of the South Polar sea where they previously found an opening into the Hollow Earth & fly right in. Deep below the earth they discover a lost race of giants & experience a tremendous lot of adventures involving a murderous plant, weird animals, & a subterranean temple of treasure. Using parts taken from the dirigible-ship Monarch and the submarine Dolphin our crew constructs the Flying Mermaid, an airship-submarine! They take their new vehicle to the South Polar sea and discover an entrance in the Hollow Earth, where they find a lost race of giants, murderous plants, weird animals, and a temple full of treasure... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2465.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2465.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2465.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2465.mobi Il Conde Joseph Conrad http://feedbooks.com/book/751 en 1908 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/751.png http://feedbooks.com/book/751.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/751.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/751.mobi Little Maid Marian Amy Ella Blanchard http://feedbooks.com/book/3532 en 1908 Novels Young Readers Religion The cat and kitten were both eating supper and Marian was watching them. Her own supper of bread and milk she had finished, and had taken the remains of it to Tippy and Dippy. Marian did not care very much for bread and milk, but the cat and kitten did, as was plainly shown by the way they hunched themselves down in front of the tin pan into which Marian had poured their supper. In the next room Grandpa and Grandma Otway were sitting and little bits of their talk came to Marian's ears once in a while when her thoughts ceased to wander in other directions. "If only one could have faith to believe implicitly," Grandma Otway said. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3532.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3532.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3532.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3532.mobi Orthodoxy Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://feedbooks.com/book/3685 urn:isbn:8562022268 en 1908 Non-Fiction Religion Orthodoxy (1908) is a book by G. K. Chesterton that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. Chesterton considered this book a companion to his other work, Heretics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it." In it, Chesterton presents an original view of Christian religion. He sees it as the answer to natural human needs, the "answer to a riddle" in his own words, and not simply as an arbitrary truth received from somewhere outside the boundaries of human experience. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3685.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3685.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3685.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3685.mobi Rowdy of the Cross L B.M. Bower http://feedbooks.com/book/938 en 1908 Novels Western This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/938.png http://feedbooks.com/book/938.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/938.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/938.mobi The Circular Staircase Mary Roberts Rinehart http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3721 urn:isbn:1426409265 en 1908 Novels Crime/Mystery The summer occupants of "Sunnyside" find the dead body of Arnold Armstrong, the son of the owner, on the circular staircase. Following the murder a bank failure is announced. Around these two events is woven a plot of absorbing interest. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3721.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3721.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3721.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3721.mobi The Duel Joseph Conrad http://feedbooks.com/book/750 en 1908 Short Fiction War This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/750.png http://feedbooks.com/book/750.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/750.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/750.mobi The Elusive Pimpernel Baroness Emma Orczy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3575 urn:isbn:0755111133 en 1908 Novels History Adventure First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. It is September 1793 and French Agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is determined to get his revenge for the previous humiliations dished out to him at the hands of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Chauvelin travels to England as an official representative of the French government tasked with looking after the interests of French citizens, but this is only a cover and his real purpose is to trick Sir Percy Blakeney into returning to France, where he can be captured and put to the guillotine. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3575.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3575.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3575.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3575.mobi The Firing Line Robert William Chambers http://feedbooks.com/book/1481 urn:isbn:1421951746 en 1908 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1481.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1481.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1481.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1481.mobi The Ghost Kings Henry Rider Haggard http://feedbooks.com/book/993 urn:isbn:1600967620 en 1908 Novels Adventure Ghost Stories This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/993.png http://feedbooks.com/book/993.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/993.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/993.mobi The Guest of Quesnay Newton Booth Tarkington http://feedbooks.com/book/2108 en 1908 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/2108.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2108.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2108.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2108.mobi The Iron Heel Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2381 en 1908 Novels Science Fiction Politics The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2381.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2381.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2381.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2381.mobi The Jolly Corner Henry James http://feedbooks.com/book/485 en 1908 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/485.png http://feedbooks.com/book/485.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/485.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/485.mobi The Last of the Plainsmen Zane Grey http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1820 en 1908 Non-Fiction Western This is the record of a trip which the author took with Buffalo Jones, known as the preserver of the American bison, across the Arizona desert and of a hunt in "that wonderful country of deep canons and giant pines." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1820.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1820.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1820.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1820.mobi The Long Shadow B.M. Bower http://www.feedbooks.com/book/933 urn:isbn:1426458924 en 1908 Novels Romance Western A vigorous Western story, sparkling with the free, outdoor, life of a mountain ranch. Its scenes shift rapidly and its actors play the game of life fearlessly and like men. It is a fine love story from start to finish. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/933.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/933.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/933.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/933.mobi The Magician W. Somerset Maugham http://feedbooks.com/book/2051 urn:isbn:0735101752 en 1908 Novels Horror The Magician is an early W. Somerset Maugham novel, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/2051.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2051.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2051.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2051.mobi The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://feedbooks.com/book/3680 urn:isbn:0375757910 en 1908 Novels Crime/Mystery Fantasy Thriller Religion The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book has been referred to as a metaphysical thriller. Although it deals with anarchists, the novel is not an exploration or rebuttal of anarchist thought; Chesterton's ad hoc construction of "Philosophical Anarchism" is distinguished from ordinary anarchism and is referred to several times not so much as a rebellion against government but as a rebellion against God. The novel has been described as "one of the hidden hinges of twentieth-century writing, the place where, before our eyes, the nonsense-fantastical tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear pivots and becomes the nightmare-fantastical tradition of Kafka and Borges." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3680.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3680.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3680.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3680.mobi