Erewhon, or Over The Range Samuel Butler http://feedbooks.com/book/2845 en 1910 Novels Humor/Satire http://feedbooks.com/book/2845.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2845.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2845.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2845.mobi Le Côté de Guermantes Marcel Proust http://feedbooks.com/book/1263 urn:isbn:2070392457 fr 1922 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1263.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1263.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1263.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1263.mobi Du côté de chez Swann Marcel Proust http://feedbooks.com/book/4 urn:isbn:2070379248 fr 1913 Novels Romance Du côté de chez Swann est un roman de Marcel Proust, c'est le premier volume de À la recherche du temps perdu. Il est composé de trois parties, dont les titres sont : Combray, Un amour de Swann et Nom de pays : le nom. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/4.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4.mobi Sodome et Gomorrhe Marcel Proust http://feedbooks.com/book/1264 urn:isbn:2070381358 fr 1922 Novels Sodome et Gomorrhe est le quatrième volet d’À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust publié en 2 tomes entre 1922 et 1923 chez Gallimard. Dans ce roman, le jeune narrateur découvre par hasard que Charlus est homosexuel, lorsqu'il assiste en témoin auditif à ses ébats avec Jupien. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1264.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1264.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1264.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1264.mobi Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh Sayers http://feedbooks.com/book/3406 en 1923 Novels Crime/Mystery Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect at the same time a noted financier goes missing under strange circumstances. As the case progresses it becomes clear that the two events are linked in some way. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3406.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3406.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3406.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3406.mobi La Philosophie dans le boudoir ou Les Instituteurs immoraux Marquis de Sade http://feedbooks.com/book/3629 urn:isbn:2724214811 fr 1795 Novels Sexuality Sade a fait de sa sexualité une éthique, qu'il a manifestée dans une oeuvre littéraire. C'est par ce mouvement réfléchi de sa vie d'adulte qu'il a conquis sa véritable originalité. L'ouvrage se présente comme une série de dialogues retraçant l'éducation érotique et sexuelle d'une jeune fille de 15 ans. Une libertine, Mme de Saint-Ange, veut initier Eugénie «dans les plus secrets mystères de Vénus». Elle est aidée en cela par son frère (le chevalier de Mirvel), un ami de son frère (Dolmancé) et par son jardinier (Augustin). Avis donné sur ce texte par la correctrice qui l'a préparé: Il est intéressant de voir comment, en partant de postulats semblables (un matérialisme athée, pour simplifier), on arrive à des thèses complètement divergentes. Car mon éthique personnelle, comme celle de beaucoup de gens fort heureusement, m'interdit le viol, le meurtre, la torture, toutes choses que Sade justifie allègrement à longueur de pages. Il est amusant aussi de voir les méthodes qu'il utilise pour défendre ses propres goûts (je n'ai jamais lu un tel éloge de la sodomie), l'hypocrisie derrière laquelle il masque sa misogynie, son besoin pathologique de transgresser pour jouir. C'est d'ailleurs une contradiction essentielle chez lui, puisque la morale qu'il défend tuerait la source de son plaisir si elle venait à s'imposer. Reste que son propos est souvent redondant - ce défaut est cependant propre à nombre de livres à thèse -, que certains échanges frisent le ridicule et qu'on finit par s'ennuyer ferme. Mais ce n'en est pas moins une lecture dérangeante, il est stimulant de penser contre Sade, ce qui est une raison suffisante pour ne pas le brûler... http://feedbooks.com/book/3629.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3629.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3629.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3629.mobi The Road Jack London http://feedbooks.com/book/3248 en 1907 Non-Fiction Biography Travel Tales of London's days as a hobo. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3248.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3248.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3248.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3248.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 I, Row-Boat Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/338 en 2006 Short Fiction Science Fiction Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/338.png http://feedbooks.com/book/338.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/338.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/338.mobi Venus in Furs Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch http://feedbooks.com/book/190 urn:isbn:1440416869 en 1906 Novels Sexuality Psychology Severin is so infatuated with Wanda that he requests to be treated as her slave and encourages her to treat him in progressively more degrading ways. At first Wanda does not want to, but later embraces the idea; though at the same time, she disdains Severin for allowing her to do so. Severin describes his feelings during these experiences as suprasensuality. Wanda treats him brutally as a servant, and recruits a trio of African women to dominate him. The relationship arrives at a crisis point when Wanda herself meets a man to whom she would like to submit. Severin, humiliated by Wanda's new lover, ceases to desire to submit, stating that men should dominate women until the time when women are equal to men in education and rights. Probably the first book which blatantly addresses the issue of female sexual domination, this is today a classic of the genre and it is the author from whom the word masochism takes its name. http://feedbooks.com/book/190.png http://feedbooks.com/book/190.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/190.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/190.mobi The Art of Public Speaking Dale Breckenridge Carnegie http://feedbooks.com/book/3695 urn:isbn:1602060517 en 1905 Non-Fiction Training in public speaking is not a matter of externals--primarily; it is not a matter of imitation--fundamentally; it is not a matter of conformity to standards--at all. Public speaking is public utterance, public issuance, of the man himself; therefore the first thing both in time and in importance is that the man should be and think and feel things that are worthy of being given forth. Unless there be something of value within, no tricks of training can ever make of the talker anything more than a machine--albeit a highly perfected machine--for the delivery of other men's goods. So self-development is fundamental in our plan. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3695.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3695.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3695.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3695.mobi The Island of Dr. Moreau H. G. Wells http://feedbooks.com/book/33 urn:isbn:0553214322 en 1896 Novels Science Fiction Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau's assistant he is taken to the doctor's island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans... This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/33.png http://feedbooks.com/book/33.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/33.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/33.mobi Macbeth William Shakespeare http://feedbooks.com/book/2935 urn:isbn:0521606861 en 1606 Plays Macbeth is among the best-known of William Shakespeare's plays, and is his shortest tragedy, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. It is frequently performed at both amateur and professional levels, and has been adapted for opera, film, books, stage and screen. Often regarded as archetypal, the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends. For the plot Shakespeare drew loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland by Raphael Holinshed and that by the Scottish philosopher Hector Boece. There are many superstitions centred on the belief the play is somehow "cursed", and many actors will not mention the name of the play aloud, referring to it instead as "The Scottish play". (From Wikipedia) http://feedbooks.com/book/2935.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2935.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2935.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2935.mobi The Awakening & Other Short Stories Kate Chopin http://feedbooks.com/book/342 urn:isbn:0679783334 en 1899 Short Fiction Sexuality The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel. As Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin "was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it." http://feedbooks.com/book/342.png http://feedbooks.com/book/342.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/342.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/342.mobi Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe http://feedbooks.com/book/40 en 1840 Short Fiction Horror Collections Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840. http://feedbooks.com/book/40.png http://feedbooks.com/book/40.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/40.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/40.mobi The Einstein Theory of Relativity Hendrik Antoon Lorentz http://feedbooks.com/book/3591 en 1920 Essay Science Whether it is true or not that not more than twelve persons in all the world are able to understand Einstein's Theory, it is nevertheless a fact that there is a constant demand for information about this much-debated topic of relativity. The books published on the subject are so technical that only a person trained in pure physics and higher mathematics is able to fully understand them. In order to make a popular explanation of this far-reaching theory available, the present book is published. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3591.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3591.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3591.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3591.mobi Anthem Ayn Rand http://feedbooks.com/book/2837 urn:isbn:0452281253 en 1938 Novels Science Fiction Psychology Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, first published in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age as a result of the evils of irrationality and collectivism and the weaknesses of socialistic thinking and economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur at all) and the concept of individuality has been eliminated (for example, the word "I" has disappeared from the language). As is common in her work, Rand draws a clear distinction between the "socialist/communal" values of equality and brotherhood and the "productive/capitalist" values of achievement and individuality. Many of the novella's core themes, such as the struggle between individualism and collectivism, are echoed in Rand's later books, such as The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. However, the style of "Anthem" is unique among Rand's work, more narrative-centered and economical, lacking the intense didactic expressions of philosophical abstraction that occur in later works. It is probably her most accessible work. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2837.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2837.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2837.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2837.mobi Les Fleurs du mal Charles Baudelaire http://feedbooks.com/book/39 urn:isbn:2290339075 fr 1857 Poetry Œuvre majeure de Charles Baudelaire, le recueil de poèmes Les Fleurs du mal, intégrant la quasi-totalité de la production poétique de l’auteur depuis 1840, est publié le 23 juin 1857. C’est l’une des œuvres les plus importantes de la poésie moderne, empreinte d’une nouvelle esthétique où la beauté et le sublime surgissent, grâce au langage poétique, de la réalité la plus triviale et qui exerça une influence considérable sur Arthur Rimbaud et Stéphane Mallarmé. http://feedbooks.com/book/39.png http://feedbooks.com/book/39.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/39.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/39.mobi When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/335 urn:isbn:1560259817 en 2006 Short Fiction Science Fiction The heroic exploits of "sysadmins" — systems administrators — as they defend the cyber-world, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/335.png http://feedbooks.com/book/335.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/335.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/335.mobi The Iliad of Homer Homer http://feedbooks.com/book/2962 urn:isbn:B0012AHIYI en -900 Poetry War Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper. The Iliad is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the late 9th or to the 8th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the ancient Greek language, making it one of the first works of ancient Greek literature. The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence, possible multiple authors . http://feedbooks.com/book/2962.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2962.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2962.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2962.mobi The Art of War Niccolò Machiavelli http://feedbooks.com/book/204 urn:isbn:0226500462 en 1521 Non-Fiction War The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra), is one of the lesser-read works of Florentine statesman and political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli. The format of 'The Art of War' was in socratic dialogue. The purpose, declared by Fabrizio (Machiavelli's persona) at the outset, "To honor and reward virtù, not to have contempt for poverty, to esteem the modes and orders of military discipline, to constrain citizens to love one another, to live without factions, to esteem less the private than the public good." To these ends, Machiavelli notes in his preface, the military is like the roof of a palazzo protecting the contents. Written between 1519 and 1520 and published the following year, it was the only historical or political work printed during Machiavelli's lifetime, though he was appointed official historian of Florence in 1520 and entrusted with minor civil duties. http://feedbooks.com/book/204.png http://feedbooks.com/book/204.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/204.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/204.mobi The Time Machine H. G. Wells http://feedbooks.com/book/32 urn:isbn:0812505042 en 1895 Novels Science Fiction The book's protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model that time is a fourth dimension, and that a suitable apparatus can move back and forth in this fourth dimension, he builds a full-scale model capable of carrying himself. He sets off on a journey into the future. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/32.png http://feedbooks.com/book/32.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/32.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/32.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 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 Metamorphosis Franz Kafka http://feedbooks.com/book/8 urn:isbn:0553213695 en 1912 Short Fiction Horror The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin". This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/8.png http://feedbooks.com/book/8.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/8.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/8.mobi Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson http://feedbooks.com/book/95 urn:isbn:1593081316 en 1886 Novels Horror Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. The work is known for its vivid portrayal of a split personality, split in the sense that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil personality each being quite distinct from each other; in mainstream culture the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" has come to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next. This is different from multiple personality disorder where the different personalities do not necessarily differ in any moral sense. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was an immediate success and one of Stevenson's best-selling works. Stage adaptations began in Boston and London within a year of its publication and it has gone on to inspire scores of major film and stage performances. http://feedbooks.com/book/95.png http://feedbooks.com/book/95.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/95.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/95.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 Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche http://feedbooks.com/book/676 urn:isbn:1604593210 en 1886 Non-Fiction Philosophy Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse), subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft), is a book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1886. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but approached from a more critical, polemical direction. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche attacks past philosophers for their alleged lack of critical sense and their blind acceptance of Christian premises in their consideration of morality. The work moves into the realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual. http://feedbooks.com/book/676.png http://feedbooks.com/book/676.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/676.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/676.mobi