Armadale Wilkie Collins http://feedbooks.com/book/3966 en 1866 Novels Crime/Mystery Armadale (1866) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century semi-epistolary novel. Some chapters consist of letters between the various characters, while other chapters record the events as the characters perceive them. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. Many years are skipped over. The son, mistreated at home, runs away from his mother and stepfather, and takes up a wandering life under the assumed name of Ozias Midwinter. He becomes a companion to the other Allan Armadale, who throughout the novel never discovers the relationship. But Ozias is constantly haunted by feeling that he might harm Allan, first after he reads the letter left for him, and then again after they spend the night on a shipwreck off the Isle of Man--the ship turning out to be the same on which the old murder took place (the murderer locked his victim in a cabin as the boat filled with water). On the boat, Allan has a mysterious dream involving three characters. This dream fills Ozias with foreboding, its three scenes becoming fulfilled in the course of the novel. http://feedbooks.com/book/3966.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3966.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3966.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3966.mobi No Name Wilkie Collins http://feedbooks.com/book/3967 urn:isbn:014043397X en 1862 Novels Crime/Mystery No Name (1862) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century novel revolving around the issue of illegitimacy. The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. When Andrew Vanstone is killed suddenly in an accident and his wife follows shortly thereafter, it is revealed that they were not married at the time of their daughters' births, making their daughters "Nobody's Children" in the eyes of English law and robbing them of their inheritance. http://feedbooks.com/book/3967.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3967.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3967.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3967.mobi The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman http://feedbooks.com/book/3609 urn:isbn:055321375X en 1892 Short Fiction Horror Biography "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health. The story is written in the first person as a series of journal entries. The narrator is a woman whose husband — a physician — has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal entries from him so that she can recuperate from what he has diagnosed as a "temporary nervous depression — a slight hysterical tendency;" a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house. The story illustrates the effect of confinement on the narrator's mental health, and her descent into psychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the room's wallpaper. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3609.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3609.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3609.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3609.mobi Half Portions Edna Ferber http://feedbooks.com/book/3817 en 1920 Short Fiction Collections A collection of 9 short stories. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/3817.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3817.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3817.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3817.mobi Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) Lewis Carroll http://feedbooks.com/book/23 urn:isbn:0688120490 en 1871 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Although it makes no reference to the events in the earlier book, the themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May, on Alice's birthday (May 4), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on November 4 (the day before Guy Fawkes Night), uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on. http://feedbooks.com/book/23.png http://feedbooks.com/book/23.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/23.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/23.mobi An Antartic Mystery Jules Verne http://feedbooks.com/book/3947 en 1899 Novels Crime/Mystery Adventure A sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. http://feedbooks.com/book/3947.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3947.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3947.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3947.mobi The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper http://feedbooks.com/book/3937 urn:isbn:048646136X en 1841 Novels History Adventure War The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. The novel's setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of The Pioneers, the first of the Leatherstocking tales to be published (1823). The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the Leatherstocking tales. Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking tales. http://feedbooks.com/book/3937.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3937.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3937.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3937.mobi The Pathfinder James Fenimore Cooper http://feedbooks.com/book/3938 urn:isbn:0140390715 en 1840 Novels History Adventure War The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1840. It is the fourth novel featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and is considered as forming the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales. http://feedbooks.com/book/3938.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3938.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3938.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3938.mobi The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper http://feedbooks.com/book/3940 urn:isbn:014039026X en 1827 Novels History Adventure War The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, who is simply known as "the trapper" in it. Chronologically The Prairie is the fifth and final installment of the Leatherstocking Tales. It depicts Natty in the final year of his life still proving helpful to people in distress on the American frontier. Continuity with The Last of the Mohicans is indicated by the appearance of the grandson of Duncan and Alice Heyward of The Last of the Mohicans and the noble Pawnee chief Hard Heart, whose name is English for the French nickname for the Delaware, le Coeur-dur. Natty is drawn to Hard Heart as a noble warrior in the likeness of his dear friend Uncas, "the last of the Mohicans." http://feedbooks.com/book/3940.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3940.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3940.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3940.mobi The Pioneers James Fenimore Cooper http://feedbooks.com/book/3939 urn:isbn:0451530470 en 1823 Novels History Adventure War The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period of time it covers makes it the fourth chronologically. The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features a middle-aged Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo), Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton, whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper, and Elizabeth Temple (the author's sister Susan Cooper), of Cooperstown. The story begins with an argument between the Judge and the Leatherstocking over who killed a buck, and as Cooper reviews many of the changes to New York's Lake Otsego, questions of environmental stewardship, conservation, and use prevail. The plot develops as the Leatherstocking and Chingachgook begin to compete with the Temples for the loyalties of a mysterious young visitor, "Oliver Edwards," the "young hunter," who eventually marries Elizabeth. Chingachgook dies, exemplifying the vexed figure of the "dying Indian," and Natty vanishes into the sunset. For all its strange twists and turns, 'The Pioneers' may be considered one of the first ecological novels in the United States. http://feedbooks.com/book/3939.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3939.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3939.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3939.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 Tales of Space and Time H. G. Wells http://feedbooks.com/book/3469 en 1900 Short Fiction Science Fiction Collections A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3469.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3469.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3469.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3469.mobi Gigolo Edna Ferber http://feedbooks.com/book/3816 urn:isbn:0554377691 en 1922 Short Fiction Romance Collections Humor/Satire Eight stories of tangy satire and sweet sentimentality. Filled with human drama, unfaltering reason, and extraordinary description. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/3816.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3816.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3816.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3816.mobi The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper http://feedbooks.com/book/3347 en 1826 Novels History Adventure War The Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826. It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time. Its narrative flaws were criticized from the start, and its length and elaborately formal prose style have reduced its appeal to later readers. Regardless, The Last of the Mohicans is widely read in American literature courses. This second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy is the best known. The Pathfinder, written 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel. Cooper named a principal character Uncas after the most famous of the Mohicans. The real Mohicans lived in the colony of Connecticut in the mid-seventeenth century, and not in the New York frontier a century later. Uncas was a Mohegan, not a Mohican, and Cooper's usage has helped to confuse the names of two tribes to the present day. When John Uncas, his last surviving male descendant died in 1842, the Newark Daily Advertiser wrote "Last of the Mohegans Gone" lamenting the extinction of the tribe. The writer was not aware that Mohegans still existed then and to the present day. The story takes place in 1757 during the Seven Years' War (known in America as the French and Indian War), when France and the United Kingdom battled for control of the American and Canadian colonies. During this war, the French often allied themselves with Native American tribes in order to gain an advantage over the British, with unpredictable and often tragic results. Source: Wikipedia http://feedbooks.com/book/3347.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3347.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3347.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3347.mobi Cabbages and Kings O. Henry http://feedbooks.com/book/3592 urn:isbn:0559579195 en 1904 Short Fiction Collections Humor/Satire A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. In this book, O. Henry coined the term "banana republic". This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3592.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3592.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3592.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3592.mobi Wieland: or, The Transformation Charles Brockden Brown http://feedbooks.com/book/3608 urn:isbn:0375759034 en 1798 Novels Horror Gothic Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale is a Gothic novel by Charles Brockden Brown, first published in 1798. It recounts the terrifying story of how Theodore Wieland is driven to madness and murder by a malign ventriloquist called Carwin. http://feedbooks.com/book/3608.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3608.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3608.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3608.mobi Varney the Vampire James Malcom Rymer http://feedbooks.com/book/1585 urn:isbn:1587153688 en 1847 Novels Horror Gothic http://feedbooks.com/book/1585.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1585.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1585.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1585.mobi The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson http://feedbooks.com/book/2418 urn:isbn:1605971669 en 1907 Novels Science Fiction Horror Hodgson wrote a trilogy consisting of Date 1965 Modern Warfare, The House on the Borderland, and The Ghost Pirates. The setting for The House on the Borderland is an ancient house in a lonely part of Ireland, where an old man lives alone with his sister and his pets. His diary is found and it tells the story of a huge cavern below the house filled with white pig like monsters. The old man has had to flight these creatures. He then sees his house in an alternate space-time plain that is isolated from the rest of his world. This haunting tale conveys intense isolations and loneliness. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/2418.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2418.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2418.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2418.mobi The Centaur Algernon Blackwood http://feedbooks.com/book/1059 urn:isbn:1557424624 en 1911 Novels Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/1059.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1059.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1059.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1059.mobi No-man's-land John Buchan http://feedbooks.com/book/1199 en 1899 Short Fiction Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/1199.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1199.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1199.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1199.mobi In the Vault Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://feedbooks.com/book/265 en 1924 Short Fiction Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/265.png http://feedbooks.com/book/265.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/265.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/265.mobi Through Russia Maxim Gorky http://feedbooks.com/book/3920 en 1906 Short Fiction Collections Travel A collection of short stories about Russia. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3920.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3920.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3920.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3920.mobi Lady Susan Jane Austen http://feedbooks.com/book/3922 urn:isbn:0140431020 en 1794 Novels Romance Humor/Satire Austen's "most wicked tale," Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. Lady Susan is a selfish, attractive woman, who tries to trap the best possible husband while maintaining a relationship with a married man. She subverts all the standards of the romantic novel; she has an active role, she's not only beautiful but intelligent and witty, and her suitors are significantly younger than she is. Source: Wikipedia http://feedbooks.com/book/3922.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3922.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3922.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3922.mobi The Bishop and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov http://feedbooks.com/book/3810 urn:isbn:1438508336 en 1919 Short Fiction Collections A collection of various of Anton Chekhov's short stories including: THE BISHOP, THE LETTER, EASTER EVE, A NIGHTMARE, THE MURDER, UPROOTED, and THE STEPPE. http://feedbooks.com/book/3810.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3810.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3810.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3810.mobi The Idiot Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://feedbooks.com/book/367 urn:isbn:0679642420 en 1868 Novels Romance Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. http://feedbooks.com/book/367.png http://feedbooks.com/book/367.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/367.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/367.mobi Notes From The Underground Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://feedbooks.com/book/361 urn:isbn:0199536384 en 1864 Novels Notes from Underground (Russian: Записки из подполья, Zapíski iz podpól'ja, also translated in English as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld while Notes from Underground is the most literal translation) (1864) is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is considered by many to be the world's first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. http://feedbooks.com/book/361.png http://feedbooks.com/book/361.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/361.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/361.mobi The Gambler Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://feedbooks.com/book/3 urn:isbn:0812966937 en 1867 Novels The Gambler was written under the pressure of crushing debt. It is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man’s exhilarating and destructive addiction, a compulsion that Dostoevsky–who once gambled away his young wife’s wedding ring–knew intimately from his own experience. In the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of his character, Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the abyss of ultimate risk that he believed was an essential part of the Russian national character. http://feedbooks.com/book/3.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3.mobi The Possessed (The Devils) Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://feedbooks.com/book/368 urn:isbn:0199540497 en 1872 Novels The Possessed (In Russian: Бесы, tr. Besy), also translated as The Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For an explanation of the marked difference in the English-language title, please see the section "Note on the title" below. An extremely political book, The Possessed is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoevsky casts a critical eye on both the left-wing idealists, exposing their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social consequences. This form of intellectual conservativism tied to the Slavophil movement of Dostoevsky's day, is seen to have continued on into its modern manifestation in individuals like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Dostoevsky's novels focusing on the idea that utopias and positivists ideas, in being utilitarian, were unrealistic and unobtainable. The book has five primary ideological characters: Verkhovensky, Shatov, Stavrogin, Stepan Trofimovich, and Kirilov. Through their philosophies, Dostoevsky describes the political chaos seen in 19th-Century Russia. http://feedbooks.com/book/368.png http://feedbooks.com/book/368.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/368.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/368.mobi