A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/57 urn:isbn:1840224118 en 1887 Novels Crime/Mystery A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which was first published in 1887. It is the first story to feature the character of Sherlock Holmes, who would later become one of the most famous and iconic literary detective characters, with long-lasting interest and appeal. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to his companion Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it." 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This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/353.png http://feedbooks.com/book/353.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/353.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/353.mobi When the World Screamed Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/355 en 1929 Short Fiction Science Fiction Professor Challenger drills into the earth until he reaches the mantle, convinced that it is a sentient being and that by doing so he will be the first person to alert it to mankind's presence. He awakens the giant creature, which then proceeds to destroy his machine. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/355.png http://feedbooks.com/book/355.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/355.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/355.mobi His Last Bow Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/65 urn:isbn:0755334434 en 1917 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in American editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection. Originally published in 1917, it contains the various Holmes stories published between 1908 and 1913, as well as the one-off title story from 1917. The collection was originally called Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes and did not contain the actual story His Last Bow, which appeared later, after the full-length The Valley of Fear was published. However later editions added it and changed the title. Some recent complete editions have restored the earlier title. When the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes were published in the USA for the first time, the publishers believed "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" was too scandalous for the American public, since it dealt with the theme of adultery. As a result, this story was not published in the USA until many years later, when it was added to His Last Bow. Even today, most American editions of the canon include it with His Last Bow, while most British editions keep the story in its original place in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. 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At the other side stands the huge mountain that contains the Caves of the Daemons. And between them the Valley lies smiling and peaceful. One would think that our good old Santa Claus, who devotes his days to making children happy, would have no enemies on all the earth; and, as a matter of fact, for a long period of time he encountered nothing but love wherever he might go. But the Daemons who live in the mountain caves grew to hate Santa Claus very much, and all for the simple reason that he made children happy. One Christmas Eve, they decided to take action! This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/325.png http://feedbooks.com/book/325.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/325.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/325.mobi Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Lyman Frank Baum http://feedbooks.com/book/321 en 1902 Novels Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/321.png http://feedbooks.com/book/321.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/321.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/321.mobi Home Again, Home Again Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/663 urn:isbn:1568582862 en 1999 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/663.png http://feedbooks.com/book/663.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/663.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/663.mobi Craphound Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/658 urn:isbn:1568582862 en 1998 Short Fiction Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/658.png http://feedbooks.com/book/658.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/658.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/658.mobi Shadow of the Mothaship Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/662 urn:isbn:1568582862 en 2000 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/662.png http://feedbooks.com/book/662.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/662.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/662.mobi Super Man and the Bug Out Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/664 urn:isbn:1568582862 en 2001 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/664.png http://feedbooks.com/book/664.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/664.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/664.mobi Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/2669 en 2003 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/2669.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2669.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2669.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2669.mobi Anda's Game Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/336 en 2004 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/336.png http://feedbooks.com/book/336.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/336.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/336.mobi Return to Pleasure Island Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/661 urn:isbn:1568582862 en 1999 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/661.png http://feedbooks.com/book/661.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/661.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/661.mobi A Place so Foreign Cory Doctorow http://feedbooks.com/book/660 urn:isbn:1568582862 en 2000 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/660.png http://feedbooks.com/book/660.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/660.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/660.mobi Tokyo Zero Marc Horne http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3501 en 2004 Michael Blake is in Tokyo to help out with the end of the world. Living in the Tokyo of the gangs, the losers and the outsiders, Blake and a cell of Japanese psychopaths plot to unleash a new kind of bio-chemical horror on an unsupecting populace of daydreaming salary-people. science fiction fiction Creative Commons Post-1930 http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.mobi Beautiful Red M. Darusha Wehm http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2548 en 2007 The future is boring. Technology has solved most of the world’s most pressing problems, leaving people with tedious work and mundane play. Jack is a Security Officer Class 5, which sounds important, but isn’t. However, her banal life as a cubicle worker by day and tinkerer by night is interrupted when she discovers that her employer’s computer system has been invaded. Jack enlists the help of her only friends – her co-worker, Gilles and Adrian, an online friend she’s never met – to help her track down the source of the invasion. Her investigation leads her to a shadowy group called the Red, where Jack learns that not everyone lives a life of quiet servitude. Even though she believes that the Red are responsible for a series of gruesome attacks, Jack begins to become attracted to their worldview. In her search for the people responsible for the attacks, she confronts the leaders of the group as well as her own burgeoning sense of self-awareness. science fiction thriller computers ai mystery cyberpunk future women http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2548.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2548.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2548.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2548.mobi His Robot Girlfriend Wesley Allison http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5854 en 2009 Mike Smith's life was crap, living all alone, years after his wife had died and his children had grown up and moved away. Then he saw the commercial for the Daffodil. Far more than other robots, the Daffodil could become anything and everything he wanted it to be. Mike's life is about to change. science fiction future robot girlfriend http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5854.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5854.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5854.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5854.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 Beyond The Great Oblivion George Allan England http://feedbooks.com/book/1991 en 1913 Novels Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1991.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1991.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1991.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1991.mobi The Last New Yorkers George Allan England http://feedbooks.com/book/1990 en 1911 Novels Science Fiction In the decade following its completion in 1909, New York's once-tallest building, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower, suffered a series of unfortunate mishaps. In rapid succession it was exposed to poisonous gases, submerged under twenty thousand feet of water, struck by the tail of a comet, and transported back in time to the pre-Columbian era. Each time, the building somehow emerged intact. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1990.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1990.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1990.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1990.mobi The Afterglow George Allan England http://feedbooks.com/book/1992 en 1913 Novels Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1992.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1992.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1992.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1992.mobi Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen http://feedbooks.com/book/4022 en 1872 Short Fiction Young Readers Fantasy Collections Hans Christian Andersen began publishing his Fairy Tales in 1835. This collection of 127 of the stories was translated by Mrs. Paull in 1872. http://feedbooks.com/book/4022.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4022.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4022.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4022.mobi The Portrait of a Lady Henry James http://feedbooks.com/book/413 urn:isbn:0375759190 en 1881 Novels Romance One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, “affront her destiny.” James began The Portrait of a Lady without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman taking control of her fate. The result is a richly imagined study of an American heiress who turns away her suitors in an effort to first establish—and then protect—her independence. But Isabel’s pursuit of spiritual freedom collapses when she meets the captivating Gilbert Osmond. “James’s formidable powers of observation, his stance as a kind of bachelor recorder of human doings in which he is not involved,” writes Hortense Calisher, “make him a first-class documentarian, joining him to that great body of storytellers who amass what formal history cannot.” This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/413.png http://feedbooks.com/book/413.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/413.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/413.mobi The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe http://feedbooks.com/book/805 urn:isbn:0801832934 en 1844 Short Fiction "The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt". These stories are considered to be important early forerunners of the modern detective story. It first appeared in The Gift for 1845 (1844) and was soon reprinted in numerous journals and newspapers. http://feedbooks.com/book/805.png http://feedbooks.com/book/805.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/805.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/805.mobi A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce http://feedbooks.com/book/222 en 1916 Novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916. It depicts the formative years in the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and a pointed allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology, Daedalus. A Portrait is a key example of the Künstlerroman (an artist's bildungsroman) in English literature. Joyce's novel traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus as he begins to question and rebel against the Catholic and Irish conventions he has been brought up in. He finally leaves for Paris to pursue his calling as an artist. The work pioneers some of Joyce's modernist techniques that would later come to fruition in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. The Modern Library ranked Portrait as the third greatest English-language novel of the twentieth century. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/222.png http://feedbooks.com/book/222.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/222.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/222.mobi