The Night Life of the Gods Thorne Smith http://feedbooks.com/book/1498 urn:isbn:0375753060 en 1931 Novels Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1498.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1498.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1498.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1498.mobi The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling Henry Fielding http://feedbooks.com/book/1671 en 1749 Novels Humor/Satire Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire Allworthy, in Somerset in England's West Country. Tom grows into a vigorous and lusty, yet honest and kind-hearted, youth. He develops affection for his neighbour's daughter, Sophia Western. On one hand, their love reflects the romantic comedy genre that was popular in 18th-century Britain. However, Tom's status as a bastard causes Sophia's father and Allworthy to oppose their love; this criticism of class friction in society acted as a biting social commentary. The inclusion of prostitution and sexual promiscuity in the plot was also original for its time, and also acted as the foundation for criticism of the book's "lowness." http://feedbooks.com/book/1671.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1671.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1671.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1671.mobi The Golden Ass Lucius Apuleius http://feedbooks.com/book/591 urn:isbn:0374505322 en 160 Novels Humor/Satire The story follows Lucius, a young man of good birth, as he disports himself in the cities and along the roads of Thessaly. This is a wonderful tale abounding in lusty incident, curious adventure and bawdy wit. http://feedbooks.com/book/591.png http://feedbooks.com/book/591.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/591.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/591.mobi Ulysses James Joyce http://feedbooks.com/book/1232 urn:isbn:0141182806 en 1922 Novels Sexuality Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. It is considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature. Ulysses chronicles the passage through Dublin by its main character, Leopold Bloom, during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title alludes to the hero of Homer's Odyssey (Latinised into Ulysses), and there are many parallels, both implicit and explicit, between the two works (e.g., the correspondences between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus). This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/1232.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1232.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1232.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1232.mobi Tales of Old Japan Lord Redesdale http://feedbooks.com/book/2726 urn:isbn:0804833214 en 1871 Short Fiction History Collections Tales of Old Japan is an anthology of short stories, compiled by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale, writing under the better known name of A.B. Mitford. These stories focus on the varying aspects of Japanese life in centuries past. The book, which was written in 1871, is still regarded as an excellent introduction to Japanese literature and culture, by virtue of its ease of access and supplemental notes by the writer. Also included are the author's eyewitness accounts of a selection of Japanese rituals, ranging from the harakiri and marriage to a selection of sermons. This book had a lasting influence on the Western perception of Japanese history, culture and society, particularly because of just one widely known tale about samurai revenge. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/2726.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2726.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2726.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2726.mobi Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard http://feedbooks.com/book/545 urn:isbn:0486206432 en 1887 Novels Adventure This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/545.png http://feedbooks.com/book/545.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/545.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/545.mobi A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/57 urn:isbn:1840224118 en 1887 Novels Crime/Mystery A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which was first published in 1887. It is the first story to feature the character of Sherlock Holmes, who would later become one of the most famous and iconic literary detective characters, with long-lasting interest and appeal. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to his companion Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/57.png http://feedbooks.com/book/57.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/57.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/57.mobi The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/63 urn:isbn:078581325X en 1905 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The book was first published on March 7, 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd and in a Colonial edition by Longmans. 30,000 copies were made of the initial print run. The US edition by McClure, Phillips & Co. added another 28,000 to the run. This was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Adventure of the Final Problem". Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901–1902 (although setting it before Holmes' death) Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/63.png http://feedbooks.com/book/63.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/63.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/63.mobi The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/66 urn:isbn:1905432585 en 1923 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections The last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written. Some of the sharpest turns of wit in English literature are contrasted by dark images of psychological tragedy, suicide, and incest in a collection of tales that have haunted generations of readers. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/66.png http://feedbooks.com/book/66.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/66.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/66.mobi The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/58 urn:isbn:0517174960 en 1893 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/58.png http://feedbooks.com/book/58.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/58.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/58.mobi The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/1421 urn:isbn:0199536953 en 1892 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on October 14, 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on October 15 by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1421.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1421.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1421.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1421.mobi Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe http://feedbooks.com/book/102 urn:isbn:0375757325 en 1719 Novels Adventure The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (of York, Mariner Who lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where in all the Men perished but Himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. This device, presenting an account of supposedly factual events, is known as a "false document" and gives a realistic frame story. http://feedbooks.com/book/102.png http://feedbooks.com/book/102.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/102.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/102.mobi Tik-Tok of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://feedbooks.com/book/316 urn:isbn:068813355X en 1914 Novels Young Readers Fantasy The fun begins in an isolated corner of Oz, in the small country of Oogaboo. There Queen Ann Soforth musters an unlikely army and sets off to conquer the rest of Oz. Meanwhile, a girl from Oklahoma named Betsy Bobbin and her companion, Hank the mule, are shipwrecked and washed ashore in the Rose Kingdom, a magical land of talking roses. There they meet the Shaggy Man, who is on a quest to rescue his brother from the clutches of the wicked Nome King. Betsy, Hank, and the Rose Princess join the Shaggy Man on his journey, and before long they meet up with Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter; Tik-Tok; and Queen Ann with her army. The rest of Baum's tale is filled with hairbreadth escapes, wild puns, and mystifying magic. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/316.png http://feedbooks.com/book/316.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/316.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/316.mobi The Patchwork Girl of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://feedbooks.com/book/315 urn:isbn:0688133541 en 1913 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/315.png http://feedbooks.com/book/315.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/315.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/315.mobi The Emerald City of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://feedbooks.com/book/231 urn:isbn:0688115586 en 1910 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/231.png http://feedbooks.com/book/231.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/231.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/231.mobi The Road to Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://feedbooks.com/book/218 urn:isbn:0688099971 en 1909 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/218.png http://feedbooks.com/book/218.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/218.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/218.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 Grimm's Fairy Tales Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm Wilhem Karl Grimm http://feedbooks.com/book/187 urn:isbn:0517229250 en 1812 Young Readers Collections Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimms' Fairy Tales (German: Grimms Märchen). http://feedbooks.com/book/187.png http://feedbooks.com/book/187.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/187.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/187.mobi War and Peace Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy http://feedbooks.com/book/83 urn:isbn:067003469X en 1869 Novels History War War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, marriage, age, and death. Though it is often called a novel today, it broke so many conventions of the form that it was not considered a novel in its time. Indeed, Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/83.png http://feedbooks.com/book/83.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/83.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/83.mobi The Art of War Sun Tzu http://feedbooks.com/book/168 urn:isbn:0762415983 en -514 Non-Fiction Philosophy War The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that was written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work on military strategies and tactics of its time. The Art of War is one of the oldest books on military strategy in the world. It is the first and one of the most successful works on strategy and has had a huge influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, and beyond. Sun Tzu was the first to recognize the importance of positioning in strategy and that position is affected both by objective conditions in the physical environment and the subjective opinions of competitive actors in that environment. He taught that strategy was not planning in the sense of working through a to-do list, but rather that it requires quick and appropriate responses to changing conditions. Planning works in a controlled environment, but in a competitive environment, http://feedbooks.com/book/168.png http://feedbooks.com/book/168.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/168.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/168.mobi Animal Farm George Orwell http://feedbooks.com/book/1167 urn:isbn:1854597892 en 1945 Short Fiction Politics Animal Farm is a novella by George Orwell, and is the most famous satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. Published in 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Joseph Stalin, and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences with the NKVD during the Spanish Civil War. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/1167.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1167.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1167.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1167.mobi 1984 George Orwell http://feedbooks.com/book/1166 urn:isbn:0452262933 en 1949 Novels Science Fiction Politics Nineteen Eighty-Four (also titled 1984), by George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), is a 1949 English novel about life under a futuristic totalitarian regime in the year 1984. It tells the story of Winston Smith, a functionary at the Ministry of Truth, whose work consists of editing historical accounts to fit the government's policies. The book has major significance for its vision of an all-knowing government which uses pervasive and constant surveillance of the populace, insidious and blatant propaganda, and brutal control over its citizens. The book had a substantial impact both in literature and on the perception of public surveillance, inspiring such terms as 'Big Brother' and 'Orwellian'. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/1166.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1166.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1166.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1166.mobi The $30,000 Bequest and other short stories Mark Twain http://feedbooks.com/book/1176 urn:isbn:0195101464 en 2004 Short Fiction Collections Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1176.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1176.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1176.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1176.mobi The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/67 urn:isbn:0812564839 en 1912 Novels Adventure The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. Interestingly, for a seminal work of dinosaur-related fiction, the animals only occupy a small portion of the narrative. Much more time is devoted to a war between early human hominids and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/67.png http://feedbooks.com/book/67.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/67.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/67.mobi King Solomon's Mines Henry Rider Haggard http://feedbooks.com/book/89 urn:isbn:0192834851 en 1885 Novels Adventure King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist, Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a quest into an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of the missing brother of one of the party. It is significant as the first English fictional adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered the genesis of the Lost World literary genre. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/89.png http://feedbooks.com/book/89.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/89.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/89.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 Ozma of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://feedbooks.com/book/205 urn:isbn:0688066321 en 1907 Novels Young Readers Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/205.png http://feedbooks.com/book/205.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/205.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/205.mobi The Marvelous Land of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://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://feedbooks.com/book/202.png http://feedbooks.com/book/202.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/202.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/202.mobi