Juvenilia – Volume III Jane Austen http://feedbooks.com/book/4207 en 1790 Short Fiction Romance Essay Collections Humor/Satire Perhaps as early as 1787, Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" of these early works into three bound notebooks, now referred to as the "Juvenilia," containing pieces originally written between 1787 and 1793. (from Wikipedia) . The 3rd volume of juvenilia includes: * Evelyn * Catharine . Cover image: Back View of Jane Austen, Watercolor by Cassandra Austen from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CassandraAusten-JaneAustenBackView%281804%29.jpg http://feedbooks.com/book/4207.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4207.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4207.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4207.mobi Juvenilia – Volume II Jane Austen http://feedbooks.com/book/4136 en 1790 Short Fiction Romance Essay Collections Humor/Satire Perhaps as early as 1787, Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" these early works into three bound notebooks, now referred to as the "Juvenilia," containing pieces originally written between 1787 and 1793. (from Wikipedia) . The 2nd volume of juvenilia includes: * Love and Freindship * Lesley Castle * The History of England * A Collection of Letters * Scraps (The Female Philosopher, The First Act of a Comedy, A Letter from a Young Lady, A Tour through Wales, A Tale) . Cover image: Back View of Jane Austen, Watercolor by Cassandra Austen from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CassandraAusten-JaneAustenBackView%281804%29.jpg http://feedbooks.com/book/4136.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4136.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4136.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4136.mobi Juvenilia – Volume I Jane Austen http://feedbooks.com/book/4206 en 1790 Short Fiction Romance Essay Collections Humor/Satire Perhaps as early as 1787, Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" of these early works into three bound notebooks, now referred to as the "Juvenilia," containing pieces originally written between 1787 and 1793. (from Wikipedia) . The 1st volume of juvenilia includes: * Frederic & Elfrida * Jack & Alice * Edgar & Emma * Henry and Eliza * The Adventures of Mr. Harley * Sir William Mountague * Memoirs of Mr. Clifford * The Beautifull Cassandra * Amelia Webster * The Visit * The Mystery * The Three Sisters * Detached Pieces (A Fragment, A beautiful description, The generous Curate, Ode to Pity) . Cover image: Back View of Jane Austen, Watercolor by Cassandra Austen from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CassandraAusten-JaneAustenBackView%281804%29.jpg http://feedbooks.com/book/4206.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4206.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4206.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4206.mobi Little Women Louisa May Alcott http://feedbooks.com/book/139 urn:isbn:0517214628 en 1868 Novels Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, the novel follows the lives of four sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March — and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The first part of the book was an immediate commercial and critical success and prompted the composition of the book's second part, also a huge success. Both parts were first published as a single volume in 1880. The book is an unquestioned American classic. http://feedbooks.com/book/139.png http://feedbooks.com/book/139.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/139.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/139.mobi 鼻 (hana) Ryūnosuke Akutagawa http://feedbooks.com/book/4267 ja 1916 Short Fiction Humor/Satire Religion Zenchi Naigu is a Buddhist priest during Japan’s Heian period. He is ascribed the “wisdom of zen”, but is more concerned with diminishing his ungainly, large, and dangling nose. The story is mainly a commentary on vanity and religion, in a style and theme typical to Akutagawa’s work. 「鼻」（はな）は芥川龍之介による初期の短編小説。1916年に『新思潮』の創刊号で発表された。『今昔物語』の「池尾禅珍内供鼻語」および『宇治拾遺物語』の「鼻長き僧の事」を題材としている。「人の幸福をねたみ、不幸を笑う」と言う人間の心理を捕らえた作品。この小説で夏目漱石から絶賛された。 (from Wikipedia) Note: You may need to embed a Japanese unicode font into this file in order to view it on your reader. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/4267.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4267.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4267.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4267.mobi The Sweet Cheat Gone (The Fugitive) Marcel Proust http://feedbooks.com/book/1452 urn:isbn:0679424776 en 1930 Novels Romance This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1452.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1452.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1452.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1452.mobi The Guermantes Way Marcel Proust http://feedbooks.com/book/1449 urn:isbn:0143039229 en 1925 Novels Romance This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1449.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1449.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1449.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1449.mobi The Captive Marcel Proust http://feedbooks.com/book/1451 urn:isbn:0375753117 en 1929 Novels Romance In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1451.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1451.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1451.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1451.mobi Time Regained Marcel Proust http://feedbooks.com/book/1453 urn:isbn:0375753125 en 1931 Novels Romance This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1453.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1453.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1453.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1453.mobi Within A Budding Grove Marcel Proust http://feedbooks.com/book/1448 urn:isbn:0375752196 en 1924 Novels Romance This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1448.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1448.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1448.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1448.mobi Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah) Marcel Proust http://feedbooks.com/book/1450 urn:isbn:0670033480 en 1927 Novels Romance Sexuality In this fourth volume, Proust’s novel takes up for the first time the theme of homosexual love and examines how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Sodom and Gomorrah is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that will inevitably supplant it. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/1450.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1450.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1450.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1450.mobi Rashoumon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa http://feedbooks.com/book/4254 en 1915 Short Fiction Philosophy Psychology "Rashōmon" (Japanese: 羅生門) is a short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū. A man considering whether or not to become a thief meets a woman stealing hair from corpses. Their conversation explores the morality of theft. The story was first published in 1915 in Teikoku Bungaku. Despite its name, it provided no direct plot material for the Akira Kurosawa movie Rashōmon, which was based on Akutagawa's 1921 short story, In a Grove. (source: Wikipedia) Note: The original Japanese version of Rashoumon is available on Feedbooks at http://feedbooks.com/book/3923 This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/4254.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4254.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4254.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4254.mobi 藪の中 (yabu no naka) Ryūnosuke Akutagawa http://feedbooks.com/book/4204 ja 1922 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Psychology "In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates what the reader knows about the murder, eventually creating a complex and contradictory vision of events that brings into question humanity's ability or willingness to perceive and transmit objective truth. It is the basis for Kurosawa's "Rashoumon." 『藪の中』（やぶのなか）は、芥川龍之介の短編小説。1922年（大正11年）、月刊雑誌「新潮」1月号に発表された。 (from Wikipedia) Note: you may have to embed your own Japanese unicode font in order for this to display on your reader. A translated version is available: http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4205 This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/4204.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4204.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4204.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4204.mobi The United States Constitution James Madison http://feedbooks.com/book/4196 en 1787 Non-Fiction Politics The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States. It is the foundation and source of the legal authority underlying the existence of the United States of America and the Federal Government of the United States. It provides the framework for the organization of the United States Government. The document defines the three main branches of the government: The legislative branch with a bicameral Congress, an executive branch led by the President, and a judicial branch headed by the Supreme Court. Besides providing for the organization of these branches, the Constitution outlines obligations of each office, as well as provides what powers each branch may exercise. It also reserves numerous rights for the individual states, thereby establishing the United States' federal system of government. It is the shortest and oldest written constitution of any major sovereign state. The United States Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention (or Constitutional Congress[citation needed]) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and later ratified by conventions in each U.S. state in the name of "The People"; it has since been amended twenty-seven times, the first ten amendments being known as the Bill of Rights. The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was actually the first constitution of the United States of America. The U.S. Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation as the governing document for the United States after being ratified by nine states. The Constitution has a central place in United States law and political culture. The handwritten, or "engrossed", original document penned by Jacob Shallus is on display at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. http://feedbooks.com/book/4196.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4196.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4196.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4196.mobi The Book of Tea Kakuzo Okakura http://feedbooks.com/book/991 urn:isbn:1933330171 en 1906 Non-Fiction Philosophy The Book of Tea was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It was first published in 1906, and has since been republished many times. In the book, Kakuzo introduces the term Teaism and how Tea has affected nearly every aspect of Japanese culture, thought, and life. The book is accessibile to Western audiences because Kakuzo was taught at a young age to speak English; and spoke it all his life, becoming proficient at communicating his thoughts to the Western Mind. In his book, he discusses such topics as Zen and Taoism, but also the secular aspects of Tea and Japanese life. The book emphasises how Teaism taught the Japanese many things; most importantly, simplicity. Kakuzo argues that this tea-induced simplicity affected art and architecture, and he was a long-time student of the visual arts. He ends the book with a chapter on Tea Masters, and spends some time talking about Sen no Rikyu and his contribution to the Japanese Tea Ceremony. According to Tomonobu Imamichi, Heidegger's concept of Dasein in Sein und Zeit was inspired — although Heidegger remains silent on this — by Okakura Kakuzo's concept of das-in-dem-Welt-sein (to be in the being of the world) expressed in The Book of Tea to describe Zhuangzi's philosophy, which Imamichi's teacher had offerred to Heidegger in 1919, after having followed lessons with him the year before. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/991.png http://feedbooks.com/book/991.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/991.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/991.mobi Swann's Way Marcel Proust http://feedbooks.com/book/1262 urn:isbn:0142437964 en 1922 Novels In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine". Still widely referred to in English as Remembrance of Things Past, the title In Search of Lost Time, a more accurate rendering of the French, has gained in usage since D.J. Enright's 1992 revision of the earlier translation by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Swann's Way is the first volume. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1262.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1262.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1262.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1262.mobi The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler http://feedbooks.com/book/2065 urn:isbn:0486434664 en 1903 Novels http://feedbooks.com/book/2065.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2065.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2065.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2065.mobi In a Grove Ryūnosuke Akutagawa http://feedbooks.com/book/4205 en 1922 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Psychology "In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously clarifies and obfuscates what the reader knows about the murder, eventually creating a complex and contradictory vision of events that brings into question humanity's ability or willingness to perceive and transmit objective truth. It is the basis for Kurosawa's "Rashoumon." (from Wikipedia) --- Note: The original Japanese text version is also available on Feedbooks at http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4204 This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/4205.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4205.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4205.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4205.mobi A Modern Utopia H. G. Wells http://feedbooks.com/book/4183 en 1905 Novels Philosophy Science Fiction Politics In A Modern Utopia, two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/4183.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4183.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4183.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4183.mobi One Martian Afternoon Tom Leahy http://feedbooks.com/book/4221 en 1953 Short Fiction Science Fiction She was sweet, gentle, kind—a sort of Martian Old Mother Hubbard. But when she went to her cupboard ... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/4221.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4221.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4221.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4221.mobi The New Testament, King James Version Anonymous http://feedbooks.com/book/4203 en 1611 Religion The Authorized King James Version is an English translation of the Christian Bible began in 1604 and completed in 1611 by the Church of England. A primary concern of the translators was to produce a Bible that would be appropriate, dignified and resonant in public reading. Hence, in a period of rapid linguistic change, they avoided contemporary idioms; tending instead towards forms that were already slightly archaic, like "verily" and "it came to pass". While the Authorized Version remains among the most widely sold, modern critical New Testament translations differ substantially from the Authorized Version in a number of passages, primarily because they rely on source manuscripts not then accessible to (or not then highly regarded by) early 17th Century Biblical Scholarship. In most of the world the Authorized Version has passed out of copyright and is freely reproduced. This is not the case in the United Kingdom where the rights to the Authorized Version are held by the British Crown under perpetual Crown copyright. [Source: Wikipedia] Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/4203.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4203.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4203.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4203.mobi R.U.R. Karel Čapek http://feedbooks.com/book/4199 en 1921 Science Fiction Plays R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is a science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Čapek. It premiered in 1921 and is famous for having introduced and popularized the term robot. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/4199.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4199.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4199.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4199.mobi Political Ideals Bertrand Russell http://feedbooks.com/book/4171 en 1917 Philosophy Essay Politics Five essays: Political Ideals; Capitalism and the Wage System; Pitfalls in Socialism; Individual Liberty and Public Control; National Independence and Internationalism. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/4171.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4171.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4171.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4171.mobi On Liberty John Stuart Mill http://feedbooks.com/book/4202 en 1859 Non-Fiction Philosophy On Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advocating moral and economic freedom of individuals from the state. http://feedbooks.com/book/4202.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4202.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4202.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4202.mobi Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley http://feedbooks.com/book/4146 en 1921 Novels Humor/Satire Crome Yellow is the first novel by British author Aldous Huxley. It was published in 1921. In the book, Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time. It is the witty story of a house party at "Crome" (a lightly veiled reference to Garsington Manor, a house where authors such as Huxley and T. S. Eliot used to gather and write). We hear the history of the house from Henry Wimbush, its owner and self-appointed historian; apocalypse is prophesied, virginity is lost, and inspirational aphorisms are gained in a trance. Our hero, Denis Stone, tries to capture it all in poetry and is disappointed in love. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/4146.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4146.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4146.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4146.mobi The Sea Wolf Jack London http://feedbooks.com/book/2848 urn:isbn:0553212257 en 1904 Novels Adventure Chronicles the voyages of a ship run by the ruthless Wolf Larsen, among the greatest of London's characters, and spokesman for an extreme individualism London intended to critique. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/2848.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2848.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2848.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2848.mobi DEAD(ish) Naomi Kramer http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6965 en 2009 Linda’s had a bad day. First her boyfriend killed her. Then she woke up, still on this boring plane of existence, and with an odd obsession about her missing body. Mike won’t tell her what he did with her body, and she can’t find the stupid thing herself. There’s only one thing she can do - torment the bastard until he coughs up the information. mystery murder ghost revenge http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6965.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6965.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6965.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6965.mobi How To Disappear Completely David Bowick http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3115 en 2009 www.bowick.net/books/ Sitting at the top of a Ferris wheel overlooking the Boston skyline, Josh’s life takes an unexpected turn, and things will never be the same. Along with the many surprises on his life’s new path, he’ll come to take life advice from a family of ducks, get in a bloody war with a dog, lose his job over a spilled drink, wake up in the hospital, apply to work at an adult-themed novelty bakery, and find out that people often aren’t what they seem. When you're at the top of the world, there's nowhere to go but down. fiction Contemporary comedy David Bowick how to disapear completely http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.mobi