The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde http://feedbooks.com/book/6 urn:isbn:0375751513 en 1891 Novels Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting influence, and a few years later the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted in his imprisonment. Of the book's value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages, perhaps." http://feedbooks.com/book/6.png http://feedbooks.com/book/6.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/6.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/6.mobi Atlantida Pierre Benoit http://feedbooks.com/book/833 urn:isbn:1406911291 en 1919 Novels Science Fiction The classic novel of finding the Lost Atlantis. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/833.png http://feedbooks.com/book/833.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/833.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/833.mobi Utopia Thomas More http://feedbooks.com/book/198 urn:isbn:0393961451 en 1515 Non-Fiction Philosophy De Optimo Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More. The book, written in Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. The name of the place is derived from the Greek words οὐ u ("not") and τόπος tópos ("place"), with the topographical suffix -εία eía, hence Οὐτοπεία outopeía (Latinized as Utopia), “no-place land.” It also contains a pun, however, because “Utopia” could also be the Latinization of Εὐτοπεία eutopeía, “good-place land,” which uses the Greek prefix ευ eu, “good,” instead of οὐ. One interpretation holds that this suggests that while Utopia might be some sort of perfected society, it is ultimately unreachable. Despite modern connotations of the word "utopia," it is widely accepted that the society More describes in this work was not actually his own "perfect society." Rather he wished to use the contrast between the imaginary land's unusual political ideas and the chaotic politics of his own day as a platform from which to discuss social issues in Europe. http://feedbooks.com/book/198.png http://feedbooks.com/book/198.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/198.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/198.mobi City of Endless Night Milo Milton Hastings http://feedbooks.com/book/891 en 1920 Novels Science Fiction When but a child of seven my uncle placed me in a private school in which one of the so-called redeemed sub-sailors was a teacher of the German language. As I look back now, in the light of my present knowledge, I better comprehend the docile humility and carefully nurtured ignorance of this man. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/891.png http://feedbooks.com/book/891.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/891.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/891.mobi A Crystal Age William Henry Hudson http://feedbooks.com/book/2577 urn:isbn:1843500809 en 1887 Novels Science Fiction I do not quite know how it happened my recollection of the whole matter ebbing in a somewhat clouded condition. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/2577.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2577.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2577.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2577.mobi The Vampire Maid Hume Nisbet http://feedbooks.com/book/1326 en 1900 Short Fiction Horror Gothic This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1326.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1326.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1326.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1326.mobi Moonfleet John Meade Falkner http://feedbooks.com/book/1606 urn:isbn:0140367047 en 1898 Novels Adventure Moonfleet is a tale of smuggling by the English novelist J. Meade Falkner, first published in 1898. The book was extremely popular among children worldwide up until the 1970s, mostly for its themes of adventure and gripping storyline. It remains a popular story widely read and is still sometimes studied in schools. The novel is set in a fishing village in Dorset during the mid 18th century. The story concerns a 15 year old orphan boy, John Trenchard, who becomes friends with an older man who turns out to be the leader of a gang of smugglers. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1606.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1606.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1606.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1606.mobi Missing Link Frank Herbert http://feedbooks.com/book/2443 urn:isbn:B0015SY0JI en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction "Missing Link" is vintage Frank Herbert. It tells the story of Lewis Orne, junior I-A field man, on the planet Gienah III. He is there to investigate a missing ship, and the natives are nothing but trouble... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2443.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2443.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2443.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2443.mobi Sapphira and the Slave Girl Willa Cather http://feedbooks.com/book/2119 urn:isbn:1844084248 en 1940 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/2119.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2119.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2119.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2119.mobi Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert http://feedbooks.com/book/2042 urn:isbn:0192840398 en 1857 Novels Romance Madame Bovary scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857. And the story itself remains as fresh today as when it was first written, a work that remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. It tells the tragic story of the romantic but empty-headed Emma Rouault. When Emma marries Charles Bovary, she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is an ordinary country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, Rodolphe, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair. And Flaubert captures every step of this catastrophe with sharp-eyed detail and a wonderfully subtle understanding of human emotions. http://feedbooks.com/book/2042.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2042.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2042.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2042.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 The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling http://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. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3090.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3090.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3090.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3090.mobi To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf http://feedbooks.com/book/1234 urn:isbn:0156907399 en 1927 Novels To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological exploration. To the Lighthouse follows and extends the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, where the plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, and the prose can be winding and hard to follow. The novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls the power of childhood emotions and highlights the impermanence of adult relationships. One of the book's several themes is the ubiquity of transience. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/1234.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1234.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1234.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1234.mobi 2 B R O 2 B Kurt Vonnegut http://feedbooks.com/book/912 en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction Humor/Satire 2 B R 0 2 B is a satiric short story that imagines life (and death) in a future world where aging has been “cured” and population control is mandated and administered by the government. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/912.png http://feedbooks.com/book/912.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/912.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/912.mobi Twenty Years After Alexandre Dumas http://feedbooks.com/book/3586 urn:isbn:0192838431 en 1845 Novels History Romance Adventure The fantastic adventures of the Three Musketeers continue - starting with an intrigue surrounding D'Artagnan who has, for twenty years, remained a lieutenant. http://feedbooks.com/book/3586.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3586.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3586.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3586.mobi A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs http://feedbooks.com/book/80 urn:isbn:0345331389 en 1912 Novels Science Fiction A Princess of Mars is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the first of his famous Barsoom series. It is also Burroughs' first novel, predating his Tarzan stories. He wrote it between July and September 28, 1911, going through four working titles; initially, he was going to call it My First Adventure on Mars, then The Green Martians, Dejah Thoris, Martian Princess, and finally Under the Moons of Mars. The finished story was first published under the last of these titles in All-Story as a six-part serial in the issues for February-July 1912. For the serial publication, the author's name was given as "Norman Bean"; Burroughs had chosen the pseudonym of "Normal Bean" as a type of pun stressing that he was in his right mind, being concerned he might suffer ridicule for writing such a fantastic story. The effect was spoiled when a typesetter changed "Normal" to "Norman" on the assumption that the former was a typographical error. The story was later published as a complete novel under the present title by A. C. McClurg in October 1917. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the story is considered a classic example of 20th century pulp fiction. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/80.png http://feedbooks.com/book/80.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/80.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/80.mobi In the Year 2889 Jules Verne http://feedbooks.com/book/477 urn:isbn:0809501287 en 1889 Short Fiction Science Fiction In the Year 2889 was first published in the Forum, February, 1889. It was published in France the next year. Although published under the name of Jules Verne, it is now believed to be chiefly if not entirely the work of Jules Verne's son, Michel Verne. In any event, many of the topics in the article echo Jules Verne's ideas. http://feedbooks.com/book/477.png http://feedbooks.com/book/477.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/477.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/477.mobi The Colour Out of Space Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://feedbooks.com/book/19 urn:isbn:1590170261 en 1927 Short Fiction Horror "The Colour Out of Space" is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed surveyor from Boston. In order to prepare for the construction of a new reservoir in Massachusetts, he surveys a rural area that is to be flooded near Lovecraft's fictional town of Arkham. He comes across a mysterious patch of land, an abandoned five-acre farmstead, which is completely devoid of all life. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/19.png http://feedbooks.com/book/19.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/19.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/19.mobi