The Time Machine H. G. Wells http://feedbooks.com/book/32 urn:isbn:0812505042 en 1895 Novels Science Fiction <p>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.</p> 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 Invisible Man H. G. Wells http://feedbooks.com/book/34 urn:isbn:0451528522 en 1897 Novels Science Fiction <p>The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novella by H.G. Wells. Wells' novel was originally serialised in Pearson's Magazine in 1897, and published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who theorises that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will be invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result.</p> This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/34.png http://feedbooks.com/book/34.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/34.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/34.mobi The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde http://feedbooks.com/book/6 urn:isbn:0375751513 en 1891 Novels <p>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."</p> http://feedbooks.com/book/6.png http://feedbooks.com/book/6.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/6.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/6.mobi