Anthem Ayn Rand http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2837 urn:isbn:0452281253 en 1938 Novels Science Fiction Psychology Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, first published in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age as a result of the evils of irrationality and collectivism and the weaknesses of socialistic thinking and economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur at all) and the concept of individuality has been eliminated (for example, the word "I" has disappeared from the language). As is common in her work, Rand draws a clear distinction between the "socialist/communal" values of equality and brotherhood and the "productive/capitalist" values of achievement and individuality. Many of the novella's core themes, such as the struggle between individualism and collectivism, are echoed in Rand's later books, such as The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. However, the style of "Anthem" is unique among Rand's work, more narrative-centered and economical, lacking the intense didactic expressions of philosophical abstraction that occur in later works. It is probably her most accessible work. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2837.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2837.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2837.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2837.mobi Cerebrum Albert Teichner http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3077 en 1963 Short Fiction Science Fiction For thousands of years the big brain served as a master switchboard for the thoughts and emotions of humanity. Now the central mind was showing signs of decay ... and men went mad. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3077.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3077.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3077.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3077.mobi The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2138 en 1877 Short Fiction Psychology http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2138.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2138.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2138.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2138.mobi The Blue Germ Maurice Nicoll http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3116 urn:isbn:B000J65T7Y en 1918 Novels Science Fiction Psychology The invention of a germ that can kill all other germs, eradicating death but also desire. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3116.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3116.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3116.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3116.mobi Three Lines of Old French Abraham Merritt http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1051 en 1919 Short Fiction Psychology This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1051.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1051.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1051.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1051.mobi A Question of Courage Jesse Franklin Bone http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3081 en 1960 Short Fiction Science Fiction I smelled the trouble the moment I stepped on the lift and took the long ride up the side of the "Lachesis." There was something wrong. I couldn't put my finger on it, but... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3081.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3081.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3081.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3081.mobi Children of Tomorrow Arthur Leo Zagat http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3058 en 1939 Short Fiction Science Fiction They roamed the vanished world that yesterday was America. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3058.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3058.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3058.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3058.mobi Mesmeric Revelation Edgar Allan Poe http://www.feedbooks.com/book/791 en 1844 Short Fiction Psychology http://www.feedbooks.com/book/791.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/791.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/791.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/791.mobi The Putnam Tradition Sonya Dorman http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3057 en 1963 Short Fiction Science Fiction Through generations the power has descended, now weaker, now stronger. And which way did the power run in the four-year-old in the garden, playing with a pie plate? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3057.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3057.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3057.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3057.mobi Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence http://www.feedbooks.com/book/213 urn:isbn:0375753737 en 1913 Novels Romance Psychology The third published novel of D. H. Lawrence, taken by many to be his earliest masterpiece, tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and budding artist. Richard Aldington explains the semi-autobiographical nature of his masterpiece: When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through the agonies of the young Lawrence striving to win free from his old life'. Generally, it is not only considered as an evocative portrayal of working-class life in a mining community, but also an intense study of family, class and early sexual relationships. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/213.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/213.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/213.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/213.mobi I'm a Stranger Here Myself Mack Reynolds http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3056 urn:isbn:B000KOSSZ0 en 1960 Short Fiction Science Fiction One can't be too cautious about the people one meets in Tangier. They're all weirdies of one kind or another. Me? Oh, I'm A Stranger Here Myself Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3056.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3056.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3056.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3056.mobi The Aeneid of Virgil (I-VI) Virgil http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3076 urn:isbn:0199231958 en -29 Poetry The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the 1st century BC (between 29 and 19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is written in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half treats the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad; Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or nationalist epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3076.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3076.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3076.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3076.mobi The Articles of Confederation Benjamin Franklin http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4053 en 1781 Non-Fiction Politics The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, commonly referred to as the Articles of Confederation, was the first constitution of the thirteen United States of America. The Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft the 'Articles' in June 1776 and proposed the draft to the States for ratification in November 1777. The ratification process was completed in March 1781, legally federating the sovereign and independent states, allied under the Articles of Association, into a new federation styled the "United States of America". Under the Articles the states retained sovereignty over all governmental functions not specifically relinquished to the central government. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4053.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4053.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4053.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4053.mobi Regeneration Charles Dye http://www.feedbooks.com/book/880 en 1951 Short Fiction Science Fiction It was bound to happen sooner or later. Not because man failed to understand his fellow man, but because he failed to understand himself. There wasn't much left afterwards--after the golden showers of deadly dust and the blinding flashes that blotted out the light from the sun. And all because man continued to confuse emotion with reason. But somehow, as before, man survived.... This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/880.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/880.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/880.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/880.mobi The Radiant Shell Paul Frederick Ernst http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2392 urn:isbn:B0016R5ALK en 1932 Short Fiction Science Fiction Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2392.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2392.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2392.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2392.mobi Venus in Furs Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch http://www.feedbooks.com/book/190 urn:isbn:1440416869 en 1906 Novels Sexuality Psychology Severin is so infatuated with Wanda that he requests to be treated as her slave and encourages her to treat him in progressively more degrading ways. At first Wanda does not want to, but later embraces the idea; though at the same time, she disdains Severin for allowing her to do so. Severin describes his feelings during these experiences as suprasensuality. Wanda treats him brutally as a servant, and recruits a trio of African women to dominate him. The relationship arrives at a crisis point when Wanda herself meets a man to whom she would like to submit. Severin, humiliated by Wanda's new lover, ceases to desire to submit, stating that men should dominate women until the time when women are equal to men in education and rights. Probably the first book which blatantly addresses the issue of female sexual domination, this is today a classic of the genre and it is the author from whom the word masochism takes its name. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/190.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/190.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/190.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/190.mobi It Could Be Anything John Keith Laumer http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3086 en 1963 Short Fiction Science Fiction Keith Laumer, well-known for his tales of adventure and action, shows us a different side of his talent in this original, exciting and thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of meaning. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3086.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3086.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3086.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3086.mobi The Leavenworth Case Anna Katharine Green http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3066 urn:isbn:1406500151 en 1878 Novels Crime/Mystery Horatio Leavenworth is a New York merchant whose material wealth is matched by his eminence in the community and reputation for good works. He is also the guardian of two striking nieces who share his Fifth Avenue mansion. Mary, her uncle's favorite, is to inherit his fortune at his death. As this mystery opens, that lamentable event has just occurred. Leavenworth has been shot to death and circumstances point to one of his young wards... 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This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3060.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3060.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3060.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3060.mobi 2 B R O 2 B Kurt Vonnegut http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912 en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction Humor/Satire 2 B R 0 2 B is a satiric short story that imagines life (and death) in a future world where aging has been “cured” and population control is mandated and administered by the government. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912.mobi