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 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 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 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 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 Beautiful and the Damned Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1417 urn:isbn:0743451503 en 1922 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1417.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1417.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1417.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1417.mobi Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1231 urn:isbn:0156628708 en 1925 Novels Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards and back in time, and in and out of the characters' minds, to construct a complete image of Clarissa's life and of the inter-war social structure. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1231.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1231.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1231.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1231.mobi The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/93 urn:isbn:0375753206 en 1920 Novels The Age of Innocence centers on one society couple's impending marriage and the introduction of a scandalous woman whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and mores of turn of the century New York society, it never devolves into an outright condemnation of the institution. In fact, Wharton considered this novel an "apology" for the earlier, more brutal and critical, "The House of Mirth". Not to be overlooked is the author's attention to detailing the charms and customs of this caste. The novel is lauded for its accurate portrayal of how the nineteenth-century East Coast American upper class lived and this combined with the social tragedy earned Wharton a Pulitzer - the first Pulitzer awarded to a woman. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/93.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/93.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/93.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/93.mobi The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories E. M. Forster http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4045 en 1911 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections A traveler steps off the road and finds himself in an alternate reality. A sullen boy accidentally summons a spirit. A man gets more than he bargained for when he buys his fiancée a plot of wooded land. These six stories deal with transformations, the truth of the imagination, and the effect of the unseen on ordinary lives. By juxtaposing the Edwardian English with pagan mythology, E.M. Forster created in this collection a work of lasting strangeness and great beauty. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4045.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4045.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4045.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4045.mobi This Side of Paradise Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1416 urn:isbn:0684843781 en 1920 Novels Romance This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1416.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1416.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1416.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1416.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 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2052 urn:isbn:0451530179 en 1915 Novels From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2052.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2052.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2052.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2052.mobi Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll http://www.feedbooks.com/book/22 urn:isbn:0785824464 en 1897 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and enemies), and to the lessons that British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the most characteristic examples of the genre of literary nonsense, and its narrative course and structure has been enormously influential, mainly in the fantasy genre. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/22.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/22.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/22.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/22.mobi Siddhartha Hermann Hesse http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374 urn:isbn:0553208845 en 1922 Novels Philosophy Religion Siddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian boy called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, yet powerful and lyrical, style. It was first published in 1922, after Hesse had spent some time in India in the 1910s. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s. The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in the Sanskrit language, siddha (gotten) + artha (meaning or wealth). The two words together mean "one who has found meaning (of existence)" or "he who has attained his goals". The Buddha's name, before his renunciation, was Prince Siddhartha Gautama, later the Buddha. In this book, the Buddha is referred to as "Gotama". Source: Wikipedia This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.mobi The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/116 urn:isbn:0192805126 en 1766 Novels http://www.feedbooks.com/book/116.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/116.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/116.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/116.mobi Don Quixote Miguel Cervantes http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183 urn:isbn:B001AAWVRY en 1615 Novels Humor/Satire Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.mobi The House of Mirth Edith Wharton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/98 urn:isbn:1600962203 en 1905 Novels The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/98.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/98.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/98.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/98.mobi Ulysses James Joyce http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1232 urn:isbn:0141182806 en 1922 Novels Sexuality Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. It is considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature. Ulysses chronicles the passage through Dublin by its main character, Leopold Bloom, during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title alludes to the hero of Homer's Odyssey (Latinised into Ulysses), and there are many parallels, both implicit and explicit, between the two works (e.g., the correspondences between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus). This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1232.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1232.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1232.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1232.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 Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2838 en 1915 Novels A chronicle of the tragedies in the lives of two seemingly ''perfect couples'' whose lives are far from perfect, this novel was loosely based on two real-life incidents of adultery and on Ford's own messy personal life. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2838.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2838.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2838.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2838.mobi