English-Esperanto Dictionary J.C. O'Connor http://feedbooks.com/book/4126 en 1906 Non-Fiction Esperanto is a language which was invented by L.L. Zamenhof and first made public in 1887. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding. The number of Esperanto speakers is estimated to be between 100,000 and 2 million. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/4126.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4126.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4126.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4126.mobi A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman http://feedbooks.com/book/4132 en 1910 Non-Fiction This is a complete guide to learning Esperanto, a language which was invented by L.L. Zamenhof and first made public in 1887. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding. The number of Esperanto speakers is estimated to be between 100,000 and 2 million. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/4132.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4132.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4132.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4132.mobi A Journey into the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne http://feedbooks.com/book/3796 urn:isbn:1416561463 en 1877 Novels Science Fiction Adventure Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the "center of the Earth". They encounter many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy. http://feedbooks.com/book/3796.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3796.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3796.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3796.mobi From the Earth to the Moon Jules Verne http://feedbooks.com/book/476 urn:isbn:0553214209 en 1865 Novels Science Fiction One of the earliest science fantasy stories ever written, From the Earth to the Moon follows three wealthy members of a post-Civil War gun club who design and build an enormous columbiad -- and ride a spaceship fired from it all the way to the moon! http://feedbooks.com/book/476.png http://feedbooks.com/book/476.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/476.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/476.mobi The Invisible Man H. G. Wells http://feedbooks.com/book/34 urn:isbn:0451528522 en 1897 Novels Science Fiction 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. 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 Vampire Jan Neruda http://feedbooks.com/book/2956 en 1920 Short Fiction Horror Early vampire short story with an interesting twist to the tradition. http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.mobi Der Tod in Venedig Paul Thomas Mann http://feedbooks.com/book/2432 urn:isbn:3596112664 de 1912 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/2432.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2432.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2432.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2432.mobi Der Prozeß Franz Kafka http://feedbooks.com/book/2435 urn:isbn:3518456695 de 1925 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/2435.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2435.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2435.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2435.mobi The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie http://feedbooks.com/book/2058 urn:isbn:1579126227 en 1920 Novels Crime/Mystery In her first published mystery, Agatha Christie introduces readers to the heroic detective, Hercule Poirot. This is a classic murder mystery set in the outskirts of Essex. The victim is the wealthy mistress of Styles Court. The list of suspects is long and includes her gold-digging new spouse and stepsons, her doctor, and her hired companion. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/2058.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2058.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2058.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2058.mobi The Longest Journey E. M. Forster http://feedbooks.com/book/2072 urn:isbn:0735100683 en 1907 Novels Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and congenitally lame young man, orphaned at the age of 15, escapes from the misery of suburban life and the bullying of public school to Cambridge, where, like Forster himself, he finds sympathetic friends, chief amongst them Ansell, a grocer's son. He has literary aspirations (his short stories, Arcadian pastoral fantasies, are remarkably like Forster's own), but is also attracted by Agnes Pembroke, the conventional but beautiful sister of a schoolmaster friend and protector, and by her handsome, athletic, ex-bully fiancé Gerald. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/2072.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2072.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2072.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2072.mobi The Machine Stops E. M. Forster http://feedbooks.com/book/2073 urn:isbn:0233991670 en 1909 Short Fiction Science Fiction The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own. Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical' and are threatened with "Homelessness". Eventually, the Machine apocalyptically collapses, and the civilization of the Machine comes to an end. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/2073.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2073.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2073.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2073.mobi Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster http://feedbooks.com/book/2074 urn:isbn:0679736344 en 1905 Novels When a young English widow takes off on the grand tour and along the way marries a penniless Italian, her in-laws are not amused. That the marriage should fail and poor Lilia die tragically are only to be expected. But that Lilia should have had a baby -- and that the baby should be raised as an Italian! -- are matters requiring immediate correction by Philip Herriton, his dour sister Harriet, and their well-meaning friend Miss Abbott. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/2074.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2074.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2074.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2074.mobi Dubliners James Joyce http://feedbooks.com/book/5 urn:isbn:0486268705 en 1914 Short Fiction Collections Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They center on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character has a special moment of self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by children as protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/5.png http://feedbooks.com/book/5.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/5.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/5.mobi The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde http://feedbooks.com/book/21 urn:isbn:1561633917 en 1888 Short Fiction Young Readers A nightingale overhears a student complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the white roses tell her that there's a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night, and sacrifice her life to do so. Seeing the student in tears, the nightingale carries out the ritual, and impales herself on the rose-tree's thorn so that her heart's blood can stain the rose. The student takes the rose to the professor's daughter, but she again rejects him because another man has sent her some real jewels, and "everybody knows that jewels cost far more than flowers." The student angrily throws the rose into the gutter, returns to his study of metaphysics, and decides not to believe in true love anymore. http://feedbooks.com/book/21.png http://feedbooks.com/book/21.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/21.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/21.mobi Silence Edgar Allan Poe http://feedbooks.com/book/807 en 1832 Short Fiction http://feedbooks.com/book/807.png http://feedbooks.com/book/807.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/807.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/807.mobi The Sphinx Edgar Allan Poe http://feedbooks.com/book/810 en 1846 Short Fiction http://feedbooks.com/book/810.png http://feedbooks.com/book/810.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/810.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/810.mobi A Tale of Jerusalem Edgar Allan Poe http://feedbooks.com/book/812 en 1832 Short Fiction http://feedbooks.com/book/812.png http://feedbooks.com/book/812.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/812.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/812.mobi The Raven Edgar Allan Poe http://feedbooks.com/book/3428 en 1845 Poetry Horror "The Raven" is a narrative poem by the American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. It was published for the first time on January 29, 1845, in the New York Evening Mirror. Noted for its musicality, stylized language and supernatural atmosphere, it tells of the mysterious visit of a talking raven to a distraught lover, tracing his slow descent into madness. http://feedbooks.com/book/3428.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3428.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3428.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3428.mobi The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe http://feedbooks.com/book/795 urn:isbn:0679643427 en 1841 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". Similar works predate Poe's stories, including Das Fräulein von Scuderi (1819) by E.T.A. Hoffmann and Zadig (1748) by Voltaire. C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mysterious brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human. As the first true detective in fiction, the Dupin character established many literary devices which would be used in future fictional detectives including Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. Many later characters, for example, follow Poe's model of the brilliant detective, his personal friend who serves as narrator, and the final revelation being presented before the reasoning that leads up to it. Dupin himself reappears in "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "The Purloined Letter". http://feedbooks.com/book/795.png http://feedbooks.com/book/795.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/795.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/795.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 Doctor Who and the Scales of Injustice Gary Russell http://feedbooks.com/book/2668 urn:isbn:0426204778 en 1996 Novels Science Fiction Humor/Satire The Silurians come up against a sinister government department. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2668.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2668.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2668.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2668.mobi Doctor Who: Human Nature Paul Cornell http://feedbooks.com/book/2934 urn:isbn:0426204433 en 1995 Novels Science Fiction Humor/Satire "On the eve of the First World War, John Smith teaches at an English public school. But is he all that he seems?" Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2934.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2934.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2934.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2934.mobi Doctor Who: Nightshade Mark Gatiss http://feedbooks.com/book/2937 urn:isbn:0426203763 en 1992 Novels Science Fiction Humor/Satire Monsters of the mind kill all in their path. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2937.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2937.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2937.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2937.mobi Doctor Who and the Empire of Glass Andy Lane http://feedbooks.com/book/2664 urn:isbn:0426204573 en 1995 Novels Science Fiction Humor/Satire Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/2664.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2664.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2664.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2664.mobi 2 B R O 2 B Kurt Vonnegut http://feedbooks.com/book/912 en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction Humor/Satire 2 B R 0 2 B is a satiric short story that imagines life (and death) in a future world where aging has been “cured” and population control is mandated and administered by the government. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/912.png http://feedbooks.com/book/912.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/912.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/912.mobi The Odyssey of Homer Homer http://feedbooks.com/book/3041 urn:isbn:158715675X en -800 Poetry The Odyssey (Greek: Ὀδύσσεια or Odússeia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. The poem was probably written near the end of the eighth century BC, somewhere along the Greek-controlled western Turkey seaside, Ionia. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses, as he was known in Roman myths) and his long journey home to Ithaca following the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. During this absence, his son Telemachus and wife Penelope must deal with a group of unruly suitors, called Proci, to compete for Penelope's hand in marriage, since most have assumed that Odysseus has died. http://feedbooks.com/book/3041.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3041.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3041.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3041.mobi Die Leiden des jungen Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe http://feedbooks.com/book/2434 urn:isbn:315000067X de 1774 Novels Romance http://feedbooks.com/book/2434.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2434.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2434.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2434.mobi Symposium Plato http://feedbooks.com/book/714 urn:isbn:0226042758 en -400 Philosophy The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical dialogue written by Plato sometime after 385 BC. It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a group of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposium or a wine drinking gathering at the house of the tragedian Agathon at Athens. http://feedbooks.com/book/714.png http://feedbooks.com/book/714.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/714.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/714.mobi