The Great God Pan Arthur Machen http://feedbooks.com/book/457 urn:isbn:0486443450 en 1894 Novels Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/457.png http://feedbooks.com/book/457.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/457.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/457.mobi A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens http://feedbooks.com/book/59 urn:isbn:1580495796 en 1843 Novels Young Readers In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world’s most adapted and imitated stories. We know Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, not only as fictional characters, but also as icons of the true meaning of Christmas in a world still plagued with avarice and cynicism. http://feedbooks.com/book/59.png http://feedbooks.com/book/59.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/59.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/59.mobi A Room with a View E. M. Forster http://feedbooks.com/book/2068 urn:isbn:0553213237 en 1908 Novels Romance This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson—who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist—Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/2068.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2068.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2068.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2068.mobi Отель Артур Хейли http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6090 ru 1965 Вечеринка «золотой молодежи» закончилась большой бедой... Титулованный иностранец случайно совершил преступление – и ищет возможность уйти от ответа... Дочь миллионера, спасенная из рук насильников, влюбляется в своего спасителя... Нет, это не детектив. Это – просто повседневная жизнь гигантского, роскошного отеля. Здесь делаются карьеры. Здесь разбиваются сердца. Здесь совершаются сделки и зарабатываются деньги. Здесь просто живут... роман http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6090.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6090.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6090.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6090.mobi Похороните меня за плинтусом Павел Санаев http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6862 ru 2009 Павел Санаев (1969 г. р.) написал в 26 лет повесть о детстве, которой гарантировано место в истории русской литературы. Хотя бы потому, что это гипербола и экстракт состояний, знакомых почти всем, и в особенности советским детям, но никогда еще не представленных в таком концентрированном виде. От других сочинений на ту же тему эту повесть решительно отличает лирический характер, в чем, собственно, и состоят загадка и секрет ее обаяния. Это гомерически смешная книга о жутких превращениях и приключениях любви. Поэтому она адресована самому широкому кругу читателей, независимо от возраста, пола и мировоззрения. Санаев http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6862.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6862.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6862.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6862.mobi 100 лет одиночества Габриэль Гарсия Маркес http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4445 ru 1967 Люди живут и носят одни и те же имена – и разные, почти карнавальные, маски. Кто отличит героя от предателя, а шлюху – от святой? Различия в затерянном мире городка Макондо очень условны. Ибо там давно уже «порвалась дней связующая нить». И никому ее несоединить. Ни смертным. Ни судьбе. Ни Богу… drama http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4445.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4445.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4445.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4445.mobi Коко Шанель Анри Гидель http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7400 ru 2009 Коко Шанель – одна из ярчайших звезд на небосклоне высокой моды, просиявших в XX столетии. Ее яркая личная жизнь, Кокто, Жаном Маре, Игорем Стравинским, страстная увлеченность своей профессией – сделали биографическое повествование Анри Гиделя захватывающим «высоким чтением». история моды шанель шанель коко http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7400.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7400.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7400.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7400.mobi Сумерки Дмитрий Глуховский http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2491 ru 2008 «Сумерки» Дмитрия Глуховского — первый российский интеллектуальный бестселлер. Это наш ответ одновременно и Дэну Брауну, и Чаку Паланику. Доказательство его статуса — сто тысяч человек, которые прочли роман в Интернете. Землетрясения в Иране, ураганы в США, цунами в Индонезии, засуха и пожары в России... Газетные заголовки и телевизионные новости переплетаются с мрачными пророчествами индейцев майя. Все это звенья одной цепи. Это знамения, которых не видит только слепой, но сумеет расшифровать лишь один человек. «Сумерки» — захватывающая история этого человека. Переводя на русский ветхий дневник испанского конкистадора, он оказывается вовлечен в водоворот невероятных событий, который поможет ему расшифровать прорицания и заглянуть в будущее — быть может, ценой его собственной жизни. Умело замаскированный под триллер, «Сумерки» — нечто намного большее. Это роман-метафора, роман-манифест. Погрузившись в «Сумерки», вы не сможете оторваться до самой последней страницы. А дочитав, не сумеете их забыть. триллер http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2491.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2491.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2491.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2491.mobi Я читаю ваши мысли Лиллиан Гласс http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4343 ru 2007 Вы завидуете телепатам? Вы хотите познать мир другого человека и научиться читать его мысли? Для этого вовсе не обязательно обладать сверхъестественными способностями! Прочитайте книгу знаменитого психолога Лиллиан Гласе - и вы сможете видеть людей насквозь. По тембру и интонациям голоса, манере выражаться, жестам, мимике и “языку тела” вы станете безошибочно угадывать их мысли и чувства, намерения и желания. Примените в жизни теорию Лиллиан Гласе - и вам позавидуют профессиональные психологи и даже телепаты! психология http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4343.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4343.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4343.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4343.mobi Преступление и наказание Федор Достоевский http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2402 ru 1866 Роман "Преступление и наказание" (1866) - одно из самых замечательных творений человеческого гения. Это роман о России середины XIX века, пережившей эпоху глубочайших сдвигов и нравственных потрясений, роман о герое, вместившем в грудь свою все страдания, боли и раны своего времени. «Преступление и наказание» (1866) — роман об одном преступлении. Двойное убийство, совершенное бедным студентом из-за денег. Трудно найти фабулу проще, но интеллектуальное и душевное потрясение, которое производит роман, — неизгладимо. В чем здесь загадка? Кроме простого и очевидного ответа — «в гениальности Достоевского» — возможно, существует как минимум еще один: «проклятые» вопросы не имеют простых и положительных ответов. Нищета, собственные страдания и страдания близких всегда ставили и будут ставить человека перед выбором: имею ли я право преступить любой нравственный закон, чтобы потом стать спасителем униженных и утешителем слабых; должен ли я сперва возлюбить себя, а только потом, став сильным, возлюбить ближнего своего? Это вечные вопросы. Достоевский http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2402.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2402.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2402.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2402.mobi Роковые яйца Михаил Булгаков http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6909 ru 2009 Михаил Булгаков-русский писатель и драматург. Автор романов, повестей, сборников рассказов, фельетонов и около двух десятков пьес. роман http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6909.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6909.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6909.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6909.mobi Сергей Минаев The Телки. Повесть о ненастоящей любви Сергей Минаев The Телки. Повесть о ненастоящей любви http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2379 ru 2008 Роман Сергея Минаева. Этим можно всё сказать. литература Совеменная http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2379.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2379.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2379.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2379.mobi The Wisdom of Father Brown Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://feedbooks.com/book/3724 urn:isbn:0755100352 en 1914 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections Religion From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest runs to earth bandits, traitors, killers. Why is he so successful? The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it. The stories included are "The Paradise of Thieves," "The Duel of Dr. Hirsch," "The Man in the Passage," "The Mistakes of the Machine," "The Head of the Caesar," "The Purple Wig," "The Perishing of the Pendragons," "The God of the Gongs," "The Salad of the Colonel Cray," "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois" and "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3724.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3724.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3724.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3724.mobi Orthodoxy Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://feedbooks.com/book/3685 urn:isbn:8562022268 en 1908 Non-Fiction Religion Orthodoxy (1908) is a book by G. K. Chesterton that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. Chesterton considered this book a companion to his other work, Heretics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it." In it, Chesterton presents an original view of Christian religion. He sees it as the answer to natural human needs, the "answer to a riddle" in his own words, and not simply as an arbitrary truth received from somewhere outside the boundaries of human experience. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3685.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3685.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3685.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3685.mobi The Innocence of Father Brown Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://feedbooks.com/book/3713 urn:isbn:1602068984 en 1911 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections Religion Twelve mysteries featuring Father Brown, the short, stumpy Catholic priest with "uncanny insight into human evil." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3713.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3713.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3713.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3713.mobi Heretics Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://feedbooks.com/book/3679 urn:isbn:1595478736 en 1905 Non-Fiction Essay Collections Religion Though he was on the whole a fun loving and gregarious man, during adolescence Chesterton was troubled by thoughts of suicide. In Christianity he found answers to many of the dilemmas and paradoxes of life. Throughout Heretics he provides a very personal critique of contemporary religious notions. His consistently engaging but often wayward humour is mixed liberally with daring flights of fancy and some startling turns of thought. A highly original collection of essays, providing an invaluable contribution to one of the major debates of the last century - one that continues to exercise leading thinkers in the present one. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3679.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3679.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3679.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3679.mobi The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://feedbooks.com/book/3680 urn:isbn:0375757910 en 1908 Novels Crime/Mystery Fantasy Thriller Religion The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book has been referred to as a metaphysical thriller. Although it deals with anarchists, the novel is not an exploration or rebuttal of anarchist thought; Chesterton's ad hoc construction of "Philosophical Anarchism" is distinguished from ordinary anarchism and is referred to several times not so much as a rebellion against government but as a rebellion against God. The novel has been described as "one of the hidden hinges of twentieth-century writing, the place where, before our eyes, the nonsense-fantastical tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear pivots and becomes the nightmare-fantastical tradition of Kafka and Borges." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3680.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3680.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3680.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3680.mobi An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith http://feedbooks.com/book/210 urn:isbn:0679783369 en 1776 Non-Fiction Science Politics Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society. http://feedbooks.com/book/210.png http://feedbooks.com/book/210.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/210.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/210.mobi 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 Oblomov Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov http://feedbooks.com/book/10 urn:isbn:1933480092 en 1858 Novels Romance Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature. Oblomov was compared to Shakespeare's Hamlet as answering 'No!' to the question "To be or not to be?" Oblomov is a young, generous nobleman who seems incapable of making important decisions or undertaking any significant actions. Throughout the novel he rarely leaves his room or bed and famously fails to leave his bed for the first 150 pages of the novel. The book was considered a satire of Russian nobility whose social and economic function was increasingly in question in mid-nineteenth century Russia. http://feedbooks.com/book/10.png http://feedbooks.com/book/10.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/10.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/10.mobi The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://feedbooks.com/book/3431 en 1922 Short Fiction 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." The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: "Sir-- 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." 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 Le Kama Sutra Vatsyayana http://feedbooks.com/book/178 urn:isbn:2290337102 fr 400 Non-Fiction Sexuality Le Kâmasûtra (composé de Kâma, le désir (également dieu de l'amour, équivalent indien d'Éros ou de Cupidon) et Sûtra, l’aphorisme (soit Les Aphorismes du désir) - est un recueil indien écrit entre le IVe siècle et le VIIe siècle, attribué à Vâtsyâyana. Le Kâmasûtra est un traité classique de l'hindouisme http://feedbooks.com/book/178.png http://feedbooks.com/book/178.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/178.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/178.mobi The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham http://feedbooks.com/book/2043 urn:isbn:0486446026 en 1919 Novels An uncompromising and self-destructive deserts his wife, family, business, and civilization for his art. Shedding harsh light on an artist's ego, Maugham reveals the lengths to which one man will go to focus on his art. Written in 1919, this unforgettable story is timeless in its appeal. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/2043.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2043.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2043.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2043.mobi Women in Love David Herbert Lawrence http://feedbooks.com/book/1030 urn:isbn:0486424588 en 1920 Novels Romance Sexuality Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual who articulates many opinions associated with the author. The emotional relationships thus established are given further depth and tension by an unadmitted homoerotic attraction between Gerald and Rupert. The novel ranges over the whole of British society at the time of the First World War and eventually ends high up in the snows of the Swiss Alps. As with most of Lawrence's works, Women in Love caused controversy over its sexual subject matter. One early reviewer said of it, "I do not claim to be a literary critic, but I know dirt when I smell it, and here is dirt in heaps — festering, putrid heaps which smell to high Heaven." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1030.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1030.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1030.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1030.mobi Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure John Cleland http://feedbooks.com/book/84 urn:isbn:1840224177 en 1749 Novels Sexuality Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland. Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica. http://feedbooks.com/book/84.png http://feedbooks.com/book/84.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/84.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/84.mobi The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde http://feedbooks.com/book/6 urn:isbn:0375751513 en 1891 Novels Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting influence, and a few years later the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde's homosexual liaisons, trials that resulted in his imprisonment. Of the book's value as autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, "Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be--in other ages, perhaps." http://feedbooks.com/book/6.png http://feedbooks.com/book/6.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/6.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/6.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 The Magician W. Somerset Maugham http://feedbooks.com/book/2051 urn:isbn:0735101752 en 1908 Novels Horror The Magician is an early W. Somerset Maugham novel, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://feedbooks.com/book/2051.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2051.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2051.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2051.mobi