Desire of Ages Ellen White http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2871 urn:isbn:B000L2YRTM en 1898 Religion This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2871.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2871.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2871.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2871.mobi Where Love is, There God is Also Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1736 en 1885 Short Fiction Religion This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1736.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1736.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1736.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1736.mobi Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2118 urn:isbn:0679728899 en 1927 Novels Religion A narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2118.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2118.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2118.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2118.mobi Orthodoxy Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/3685.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3685.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3685.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3685.mobi Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Lewis Wallace http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540 urn:isbn:1404185712 en 1880 Novels History Religion Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers. Wallace's work is part of an important sub-genre of historical fiction set among the characters of the New Testament. The novel was a phenomenal best-seller; it soon surpassed Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) as the best-selling American novel and retained this distinction until the 1936 publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. The central character is Judah, prince of the Hebrew house of Hur. Judah grows up in Jerusalem, during the turbulent years around the birth of Christ. His best friend is Messala, a Roman. As adults Judah and Messala become rivals, each hating the other, which leads to Judah's downfall and eventual triumph. Elements of the story include leprosy, naval battles among galleys, the Roman hippodrome, Roman adoption, Magus Balthasar, the Arab sheikh Ilderim. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.mobi Lord of the World Robert Hugh Benson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2462 urn:isbn:8184565224 en 1907 Novels Science Fiction Religion In or about the year 2000, humanity has reached "that incredibly lofty goal to which its intrinsic efforts can carry it" — but rejected everything but crass materialism. Technology has advanced to the point where no one need work for a living, while the social sciences have achieved a smoothly-running if almost unbearably sterile social order. Formal religious beliefs except for Catholicism have been uprooted and eliminated as coherent systems, and the Catholic Church has been completely discredited in the eyes of the world, finally being outlawed. The result is everything the late Victorians and Edwardians believed would bring human happiness — and which brings nothing but the advent of new superstitions, despair, and the end of the world … maybe. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2462.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2462.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2462.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2462.mobi Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2675 urn:isbn:B00146LZ1C en 1776 Non-Fiction Essay Politics The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, announcing that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were no longer a part of the British Empire. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. The birthday of the United States of America—Independence Day—is celebrated on July 4, the day the wording of the Declaration was approved by Congress. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2675.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2675.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2675.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2675.mobi Work, Death, and Sickness Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1744 en 1903 Short Fiction Religion This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1744.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1744.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1744.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1744.mobi Heretics Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/3679.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3679.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3679.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3679.mobi Biblical Mysteries Lonely Soul http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1950 en 2008 In this book you can explore many puzzling biblical mysteries, including: -- Does the Devil really exist? -- Was Mary Magdalene secretly married to Jesus? -- Where is Hell located? -- What was in the Lost Gospels? -- Who was the mysterious Beloved Disciple? -- Is there a divine language? -- Can people be possessed by demons? -- Why did Jesus call himself the Son of Man? -- And many more ... history religion bible Christian Christianity http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1950.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1950.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1950.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1950.mobi The Innocence of Father Brown Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/3713.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3713.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3713.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3713.mobi Father Sergius Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1527 urn:isbn:1596441763 en 1873 Short Fiction Religion This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1527.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1527.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1527.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1527.mobi The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/3680.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3680.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3680.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3680.mobi An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/210.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/210.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/210.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/210.mobi The New Testament, King James Version Anonymous http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4203 en 1611 Religion The Authorized King James Version is an English translation of the Christian Bible began in 1604 and completed in 1611 by the Church of England. A primary concern of the translators was to produce a Bible that would be appropriate, dignified and resonant in public reading. Hence, in a period of rapid linguistic change, they avoided contemporary idioms; tending instead towards forms that were already slightly archaic, like "verily" and "it came to pass". While the Authorized Version remains among the most widely sold, modern critical New Testament translations differ substantially from the Authorized Version in a number of passages, primarily because they rely on source manuscripts not then accessible to (or not then highly regarded by) early 17th Century Biblical Scholarship. In most of the world the Authorized Version has passed out of copyright and is freely reproduced. This is not the case in the United Kingdom where the rights to the Authorized Version are held by the British Crown under perpetual Crown copyright. [Source: Wikipedia] Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4203.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4203.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4203.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4203.mobi Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2021 urn:isbn:0192834320 en 1857 Novels Religion http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2021.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2021.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2021.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2021.mobi The Wisdom of Father Brown Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/3724.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3724.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3724.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3724.mobi The Einstein Theory of Relativity Hendrik Antoon Lorentz http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3591 en 1920 Essay Science Whether it is true or not that not more than twelve persons in all the world are able to understand Einstein's Theory, it is nevertheless a fact that there is a constant demand for information about this much-debated topic of relativity. The books published on the subject are so technical that only a person trained in pure physics and higher mathematics is able to fully understand them. In order to make a popular explanation of this far-reaching theory available, the present book is published. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3591.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3591.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3591.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3591.mobi The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.mobi The Federalist Papers Publius http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2674 urn:isbn:1596052473 en 1787 Non-Fiction History Essay Politics The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788. A compilation of these and eight others, called The Federalist, was published in 1788 by J. and A. McLean. The Federalist Papers serve as a primary source for interpretation of the Constitution, as they outline the philosophy and motivation of the proposed system of government. The authors of the Federalist Papers wanted to both influence the vote in favor of ratification and shape future interpretations of the Constitution. According to historian Richard B. Morris, they are an "incomparable exposition of the Constitution, a classic in political science unsurpassed in both breadth and depth by the product of any later American writer." http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2674.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2674.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2674.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2674.mobi