The Chronicles of Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini http://feedbooks.com/book/2159 en 1931 Short Fiction Adventure Collections This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/2159.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2159.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2159.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2159.mobi The Oakdale Affair Edgar Rice Burroughs http://feedbooks.com/book/946 en 1917 Novels Adventure This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/946.png http://feedbooks.com/book/946.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/946.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/946.mobi The Efficiency Expert Edgar Rice Burroughs http://feedbooks.com/book/942 urn:isbn:1596055464 en 1921 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/942.png http://feedbooks.com/book/942.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/942.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/942.mobi The Girl from Farris's Edgar Rice Burroughs http://feedbooks.com/book/1473 urn:isbn:1419163825 en 1916 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/1473.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1473.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1473.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1473.mobi Jungle Tales of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs http://feedbooks.com/book/943 urn:isbn:1600969410 en 1919 Short Fiction Adventure Collections This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/943.png http://feedbooks.com/book/943.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/943.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/943.mobi Tales of Space and Time H. G. Wells http://feedbooks.com/book/3469 en 1900 Short Fiction Science Fiction Collections A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3469.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3469.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3469.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3469.mobi Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert http://feedbooks.com/book/2042 urn:isbn:0192840398 en 1857 Novels Romance Madame Bovary scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857. And the story itself remains as fresh today as when it was first written, a work that remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. It tells the tragic story of the romantic but empty-headed Emma Rouault. When Emma marries Charles Bovary, she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is an ordinary country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, Rodolphe, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair. And Flaubert captures every step of this catastrophe with sharp-eyed detail and a wonderfully subtle understanding of human emotions. http://feedbooks.com/book/2042.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2042.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2042.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2042.mobi The First Men in the Moon H. G. Wells http://feedbooks.com/book/592 en 1901 Novels Science Fiction The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon by the impecunious businessman Mr Bedford and the brilliant but eccentric scientist Dr Cavor. On arrival, Bedford and Cavor find the moon inhabited by a race of moon-folk the two call "Selenites." The novel can also be read as a critique of prevailing political opinions from the turn of the century, particularly of imperialism. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/592.png http://feedbooks.com/book/592.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/592.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/592.mobi The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth H. G. Wells http://feedbooks.com/book/594 urn:isbn:0486448460 en 1904 Novels Science Fiction Two scientists devise a compound that produces enormous plants, animals — and humans! The chilling results are disastrous. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/594.png http://feedbooks.com/book/594.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/594.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/594.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 Runagates Club John Buchan http://feedbooks.com/book/1190 urn:isbn:1842327879 en 1928 Short Fiction Collections This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://feedbooks.com/book/1190.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1190.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1190.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1190.mobi The White People Arthur Machen http://feedbooks.com/book/1171 urn:isbn:1568821727 en 1906 Short Fiction Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/1171.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1171.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1171.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1171.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 An Antartic Mystery Jules Verne http://feedbooks.com/book/3947 en 1899 Novels Crime/Mystery Adventure A sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. http://feedbooks.com/book/3947.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3947.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3947.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3947.mobi Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe http://feedbooks.com/book/40 en 1840 Short Fiction Horror Collections Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840. http://feedbooks.com/book/40.png http://feedbooks.com/book/40.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/40.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/40.mobi A Descent into the Maelström Edgar Allan Poe http://feedbooks.com/book/765 en 1841 Short Fiction Horror Inspired by the Moskstraumen, it is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb. The story is told by an old man who reveals that he only appears old - "You suppose me a very old man," he says, "but I am not. It took less than a single day to change these hairs from a jetty black to white, to weaken my limbs, and to unstring my nerves." The narrator, convinced by the power of the whirlpools he sees in the ocean beyond, is then told of the "old" man's fishing trip with his two brothers a few years ago. http://feedbooks.com/book/765.png http://feedbooks.com/book/765.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/765.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/765.mobi The Destruction Of Dá Derga's Hostel Whitely Stokes http://feedbooks.com/book/4028 en 1910 Fantasy The vast and interesting epic literature of Ireland has remained, for the most part, inaccessible to English readers until these last sixty years. In 1853, Nicholas O'Kearney published the Irish text and an English translation of "The Battle of Gabra," and since that date the volume of printed texts and English versions has steadily increased. Now there lies open to the ordinary reader a considerable mass of material illustrating the imaginative life of medieval Ireland. Of these Irish epic tales, "The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel" is a specimen of remarkable beauty and power. The primitive aspects of the story are made evident in the way that the plot turns upon the disasters that follow on the violation of taboos, by the monstrous nature of many of the warriors, and by the absence of any attempt to explain the beliefs implied or the marvels related in it. The powers and achievements of the heroes are fantastic and extraordinary beyond description. The natural and extra-natural constantly mingle, yet nowhere does the narrator express surprise. The technical method of the tale, too, is curiously and almost mechanically symmetrical, after the manner of savage art. Both description and narration are marked by a high degree of freshness and vividness. http://feedbooks.com/book/4028.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4028.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4028.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4028.mobi Robur the Conqueror Jules Verne http://feedbooks.com/book/2451 en 1886 Novels Science Fiction The story begins with strange lights and sounds, including blaring trumpet music, reported in the skies all over the world. The events are capped by the mysterious appearance of black flags with gold suns atop tall historic landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty in New York, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. These events are all the work of the mysterious Robur (Latin for "oak" and figuratively taken to mean "strength"), a brilliant inventor who intrudes on a meeting of a flight-enthusiast's club called the Weldon Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. http://feedbooks.com/book/2451.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2451.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2451.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2451.mobi Michael Strogoff, or The Courier of the Czar Jules Verne http://feedbooks.com/book/478 urn:isbn:0689810962 en 1874 Novels Adventure http://feedbooks.com/book/478.png http://feedbooks.com/book/478.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/478.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/478.mobi Tales of Three Hemispheres Lord Dunsany http://feedbooks.com/book/3373 en 1920 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections Tales of Three Hemispheres is a collection of fantasy short stories by Lord Dunsany. The first edition was published in Boston by John W. Luce & Co. in November, 1919; the first British edition was published in London by T. Fisher Unwin in June, 1920. The collection's significance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication in a new edition by Owlswick Press in 1976, with illustrations by Tim Kirk and a foreword by H. P. Lovecraft, actually a general article on Dunsany's work originally written by Lovecraft in 1922, but unpublished until it appeared in his posthumous Marginalia (Arkham House, 1944). The book collects 14 short pieces by Dunsany; the last three, under the general heading "Beyond the Fields We Know," are related tales, as explained in the publisher's note preceding the first, "Idle Days on the Yann," which was previously published in the author's earlier collection A Dreamer's Tales, but reprinted in the current one owing to the relationship. Source: Wikipedia This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3373.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3373.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3373.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3373.mobi A Dreamer's Tales Lord Dunsany http://feedbooks.com/book/3352 en 1910 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections A Dreamer's Tales is the fifth book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in September, 1910, and has been reprinted a number of times since. Issued by the Modern Library in a combined edition with The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories as A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories in 1917. The book is actually Dunsany's fourth major work, as his preceding book, The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth (March, 1910), was a chapbook reprinting a single story from his earlier collection The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (October, 1908). In common with most of Dunsany's early books, A Dreamer's Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories. Source: Wikipedia This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3352.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3352.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3352.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3352.mobi The Book of Wonder Lord Dunsany http://feedbooks.com/book/3355 en 1912 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The Book of Wonder is the seventh book and fifth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. It was first published in hardcover by William Heinemann in November, 1912, and has been reprinted a number of times since. A 1918 edition from the Modern Library was actually a combined edition with Time and the Gods. The book collects fourteen fantasy short stories by the author. Source: Wikipedia This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3355.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3355.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3355.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3355.mobi Tales of Wonder Lord Dunsany http://feedbooks.com/book/3357 en 1916 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The Last Book of Wonder, originally published as Tales of Wonder, is the tenth book and sixth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3357.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3357.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3357.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3357.mobi Fifty-One Tales Lord Dunsany http://feedbooks.com/book/3356 urn:isbn:1592240062 en 1915 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections Fifty-One Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories by Irish writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. The first editions, in hardcover, were published simultaneously in London and New York by Elkin Mathews and Mitchell Kennerly, respectively, in April, 1915. The British and American editions differ in that they arrange the material slightly differently and that each includes a story the other omits; "The Poet Speaks with Earth" in the British version, and "The Mist" in the American version. The collection's significance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication (as The Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales) by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the third volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library in September, 1974. The Newcastle edition used the American version of the text. The book collects fifty-one short stories by the author. Source: Wikipedia This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3356.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3356.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3356.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3356.mobi The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories Lord Dunsany http://feedbooks.com/book/3309 en 1908 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories is the third book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in October, 1908, and has been reprinted a number of times since. Issued by the Modern Library in a combined edition with A Dreamer's Tales as A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories in 1917. The book is a series of short stories, some of them linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna, which were the focus of his earlier collections The Gods of Pegāna and Time and the Gods. One of the stories, "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth," was afterwards (1910) published by itself as a separate book, a now very-rare "Art-and-Craft" style limited edition. Source: Wikipedia This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3309.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3309.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3309.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3309.mobi Time and the Gods Lord Dunsany http://feedbooks.com/book/3349 en 1905 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections Time and the Gods is the second book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. The book was first published in hardcover by William Heinemann in September, 1906, and has been reprinted a number of times since. It was issued by the Modern Library in an unauthorised combined edition with The Book of Wonder under the latter's title in 1918. Dunsany had a brief preface in the original edition and added a new introduction to the 1922 edition. The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna. It was preceded by his earlier collection The Gods of Pegāna and followed by some stories in The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3349.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3349.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3349.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3349.mobi The Gods of Pegana Lord Dunsany http://feedbooks.com/book/3275 en 1905 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna. It was followed by a further collection Time and the Gods and by some stories in The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories . This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3275.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3275.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3275.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3275.mobi Pagan Passions Randall Garrett Laurence Mark Janifer http://feedbooks.com/book/1963 urn:isbn:1434492435 en 1959 Novels Science Fiction Sexuality The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece and Rome had returned to Earth -- with all their awesome powers intact. Overnight, Earth was transformed. War on any scale was outlawed, along with boom-and-bust economic cycles, and prudery. No change was more startling than the face of New York, where the Empire State Building became the Tower of Zeus. In this totally altered world, William Forrester is an acolyte of Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and a teacher of history. Only Maya Wilson, one of his students and a worshipper of Venus, Goddess of Love, had a different sort of grading in mind. Maya is the first of the many Trials of Forrester, every bit as mighty and perilous as the Labors of Hercules. In love with Gerda Symes (like him, a devotee of Athena and a frequenter of the great Temple of Pallas Athena -- formerly known as the 42nd Street Library) and dedicated to the pleasures of the mind -- Forrester falls under the soft, compelling pressure of soft, compelling devotees of Venus and Bacchus. He's going to be in need of all the strength that he and his Goddess, the beautiful and intellectual Athena, can muster! Into this sensuous strife stride the Temple Myrmidons -- religious cops sworn to obey orders without question or hesitation -- with a pickup order for William Forrester. Where he is taken, what happens to him, and the truly fantastic discoveries he makes about himself and the Gods and Goddesses ... here are the ingredients that make up this science fiction novel of suspense, intrigue, mystery and danger! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://feedbooks.com/book/1963.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1963.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1963.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1963.mobi