The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://feedbooks.com/book/3431 en 1922 Short Fiction <p>This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books." <br />The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: <br />"Sir-- <br />I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will." </p> This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.mobi The Vampire Jan Neruda http://feedbooks.com/book/2956 en 1920 Short Fiction Horror <p>Early vampire short story with an interesting twist to the tradition.</p> http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2956.mobi The Dualitists Bram Stoker http://feedbooks.com/book/2963 en 1887 Short Fiction Horror <p>Twins and their strange taste for destruction.</p> This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/2963.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2963.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2963.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2963.mobi Refuge Richard Herley http://feedbooks.com/book/3025 en 2008 Novels Science Fiction Thriller <p>Like The Penal Colony, this is a thriller set in the near future.</p> <p>It is twelve years on from a global plague. John Suter believes himself the sole survivor. He has gradually come to terms with his fate and has settled into a steady and self-reliant daily routine.</p> <p>One morning he finds a mutilated body in the river near his house. In his terror, Suter knows he has no choice but to investigate.</p> <p>What he discovers upstream stretches his endurance to its limits and forces him to reassess not only his own humanity, but also his place within the human family he had once believed extinct.</p> Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/3025.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3025.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3025.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3025.mobi A Strange Disappearance Anna Katharine Green http://feedbooks.com/book/3099 urn:isbn:0554265982 en 1880 Novels Crime/Mystery <p>A housekeeper reports the disappearance of a sewing-maid from a wealthy household. She insists that the girl has been abducted. Mr Gryce and a young detective investigate. The missing young woman has a secret. But she is not the only one…</p> This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3099.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3099.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3099.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3099.mobi