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 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll http://feedbooks.com/book/22 urn:isbn:0785824464 en 1897 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and enemies), and to the lessons that British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the most characteristic examples of the genre of literary nonsense, and its narrative course and structure has been enormously influential, mainly in the fantasy genre. http://feedbooks.com/book/22.png http://feedbooks.com/book/22.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/22.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/22.mobi Moby-Dick Herman Melville http://feedbooks.com/book/54 urn:isbn:0553213113 en 1851 Novels Adventure Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby-Dick, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaling ships know of Moby-Dick, and fewer yet have encountered him. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to exact revenge. http://feedbooks.com/book/54.png http://feedbooks.com/book/54.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/54.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/54.mobi Frankenstein Mary Shelley http://feedbooks.com/book/91 urn:isbn:0743487583 en 1818 Novels Science Fiction Horror Gothic Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture, people have tended to refer to the Creature as "Frankenstein", despite this being the name of the scientist. Frankenstein is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. It is arguably considered the first fully realized science fiction novel. http://feedbooks.com/book/91.png http://feedbooks.com/book/91.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/91.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/91.mobi Dracula Bram Stoker http://feedbooks.com/book/88 urn:isbn:0743477367 en 1897 Novels Horror Gothic Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/88.png http://feedbooks.com/book/88.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/88.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/88.mobi Dracula's Guest Bram Stoker http://feedbooks.com/book/462 en 1914 Short Fiction Horror Gothic This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/462.png http://feedbooks.com/book/462.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/462.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/462.mobi The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri http://feedbooks.com/book/206 urn:isbn:0451208633 en 1306 Poetry Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation. http://feedbooks.com/book/206.png http://feedbooks.com/book/206.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/206.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/206.mobi Lady Chatterley's Lover David Herbert Lawrence http://feedbooks.com/book/87 urn:isbn:0553212621 en 1928 Novels Sexuality Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence written in 1928. Printed privately in Florence in 1928, it was not printed in the United Kingdom until 1960 (other than in an underground edition issued by Inky Stephensen's Mandrake Press in 1929). Lawrence considered calling this book Tenderness at one time and made significant alterations to the original manuscript in order to make it palatable to readers. It has been published in three different versions. The publication of the book caused a scandal due to its explicit sex scenes, including previously banned four-letter words, and perhaps because the lovers were a working-class male and an aristocratic female. The story is said to have originated from events in Lawrence's own unhappy domestic life, and he took inspiration for the settings of the book from Ilkeston in Derbyshire where he lived for a while. According to some critics the fling of Lady Ottoline Morrell with "Tiger", a young stonemason who came to carve plinths for her garden statues, also influenced the story. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/87.png http://feedbooks.com/book/87.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/87.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/87.mobi Ulysses James Joyce http://feedbooks.com/book/1232 urn:isbn:0141182806 en 1922 Novels Sexuality Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. It is considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature. Ulysses chronicles the passage through Dublin by its main character, Leopold Bloom, during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title alludes to the hero of Homer's Odyssey (Latinised into Ulysses), and there are many parallels, both implicit and explicit, between the two works (e.g., the correspondences between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus). This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/1232.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1232.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1232.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1232.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