Erewhon, or Over The Range Samuel Butler http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2845 en 1910 Novels Humor/Satire http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2845.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2845.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2845.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2845.mobi A Room with a View E. M. Forster http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/2068.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2068.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2068.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2068.mobi Howards End E. M. Forster http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2071 urn:isbn:0486424545 en 1910 Novels The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist — all intersect at an estate called Howards End. The fate of this country home symbolizes the future of England in an exploration of social, economic, and philosophical trends during the post-Victorian era. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2071.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2071.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2071.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2071.mobi The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2059 urn:isbn:0451201205 en 1922 Novels Crime/Mystery Hiring themselves out as “young adventurers willing to do anything” is a smart move for Tommy and Tuppence. All Tuppence has to do is take an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris and pose as someone named Jane Finn. But with the job comes a threat to her life, and the disappearance of her mysterious employer. Now Tuppence’s newest job is playing detective—because if there’s a Jane Finn that really exists, she’s got a secret that’s putting both their lives in danger. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2059.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2059.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2059.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2059.mobi Where Angels Fear to Tread E. M. Forster http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/2074.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2074.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2074.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2074.mobi Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad http://www.feedbooks.com/book/15 urn:isbn:0486264645 en 1902 Novels Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary. The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/15.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/15.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/15.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/15.mobi Middlemarch George Eliot http://www.feedbooks.com/book/575 urn:isbn:0451529170 en 1871 Novels Vast and crowded, rich in irony and suspense, Middlemarch is richer still in character, with two of the era's most enduring characters, Dorothea Brooke, trapped in a loveless marriage, and Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/575.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/575.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/575.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/575.mobi The Machine Stops E. M. Forster http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/2073.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2073.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2073.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2073.mobi Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2069 urn:isbn:0192835599 en 1873 Novels http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2069.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2069.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2069.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2069.mobi To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1234 urn:isbn:0156907399 en 1927 Novels To the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological exploration. To the Lighthouse follows and extends the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, where the plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, and the prose can be winding and hard to follow. The novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls the power of childhood emotions and highlights the impermanence of adult relationships. One of the book's several themes is the ubiquity of transience. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1234.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1234.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1234.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1234.mobi The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/2058.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2058.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2058.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2058.mobi The Mystery of 31 New Inn R. Austin Freeman http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2061 urn:isbn:1591663067 en 1912 Novels Crime/Mystery This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2061.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2061.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2061.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2061.mobi The Magnificent Ambersons Newton Booth Tarkington http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2090 urn:isbn:1600968023 en 1918 Novels The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth trilogy, which included The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). In 1942 Orson Welles directed a film version, also titled The Magnificent Ambersons. The novel and trilogy traces the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in a fictional Mid-Western town, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America. The decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of industrial tycoons and other new-money families, which did not derive power from family names but by "doing things". As George Amberson's friend (name unspecified) says, "don't you think being things is 'rahthuh bettuh' than doing things?" "The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," said Van Wyck Brooks. "[It is] a typical story of an American family and town—the great family that locally ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city. This novel no doubt was a permanent page in the social history of the United States, so admirably conceived and written was the tale of the Ambersons, their house, their fate and the growth of the community in which they were submerged in the end." Even though the story is set in a fictitious city, it was inspired by Tarkington's hometown of Indianapolis and the neighborhood he once lived in, Woodruff Place. Source: Wikipedia This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2090.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2090.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2090.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2090.mobi The Longest Journey E. M. Forster http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/2072.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2072.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2072.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2072.mobi The Eustace Diamonds Anthony Trollope http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2066 en 1872 Novels http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2066.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2066.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2066.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2066.mobi Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë http://www.feedbooks.com/book/144 urn:isbn:1551111802 en 1847 Novels Romance Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847. Its representation of the underside of domestic life and the hypocrisy behind religious enthusiasm drew both praise and bitter criticism, while Charlotte Brontë's striking expose of poor living conditions for children in charity schools as well as her poignant portrayal of the limitations faced by women who worked as governesses sparked great controversy and social debate. Jane Eyre, Brontë's best-known novel, remains an extraordinary coming-of-age narrative, and one of the great classics of literature. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/144.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/144.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/144.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/144.mobi Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs http://www.feedbooks.com/book/69 urn:isbn:0517189070 en 1912 Novels Adventure When Tarzan is orphaned as a baby deep in the African jungle, the apes adopt him and raise him as their own. By the time the boy is ten, he can swing through the trees and talk to the animals. By the time he is eighteen, he has the strength of a lion and rules the apes as their king. But Tarzan knows he's different. Will he ever discover his true identity? This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/69.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/69.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/69.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/69.mobi Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Vol 2 Lafcadio Hearn http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2057 urn:isbn:160206489X en 1894 Non-Fiction History Essay Travel http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2057.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2057.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2057.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2057.mobi Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Vol 1 Lafcadio Hearn http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2056 urn:isbn:1596056835 en 1871 Non-Fiction History Essay Travel A Japanese magic-lantern show is essentially dramatic. It is a play of which the dialogue is uttered by invisible personages, the actors and the scenery being only luminous shadows. Wherefore it is peculiarly well suited to goblinries and weirdnessess of all kinds; and plays in which ghosts figure are the favourite subject. -from "Of Ghosts and Goblins" In 1889, Westerner Lafcadio Hearn arrived in Japan on a journalistic assignment, and he fell so in love with the nation and its people that he never left. In 1894, just as Japan was truly opening to the West and global interest in Japanese culture was burgeoning, Hearn published this delightful series of essays glorifying what he called the "rare charm of Japanese life." Beautifully written and a joy to read, Hearn's love letters to the land of the rising sun enchant with their sweetly lyrical descriptions of winter street fairs, puppet theaters, religious statuaries, even the Japanese smile and its particular allure. A wonderful journal of immersion on a foreign land, this will bewitch Japanophiles and travelers to the East. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2056.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2056.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2056.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2056.mobi Camilla Fanny Burney http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1468 urn:isbn:019283908X en 1796 Novels Romance http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1468.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1468.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1468.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1468.mobi