The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories Lord Dunsany http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3309 en 1908 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories is the third book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in October, 1908, and has been reprinted a number of times since. Issued by the Modern Library in a combined edition with A Dreamer's Tales as A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories in 1917. The book is a series of short stories, some of them linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna, which were the focus of his earlier collections The Gods of Pegāna and Time and the Gods. One of the stories, "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth," was afterwards (1910) published by itself as a separate book, a now very-rare "Art-and-Craft" style limited edition. 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/3309.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3309.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3309.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3309.mobi Fifty-One Tales Lord Dunsany http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3356 urn:isbn:1592240062 en 1915 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections Fifty-One Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories by Irish writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. The first editions, in hardcover, were published simultaneously in London and New York by Elkin Mathews and Mitchell Kennerly, respectively, in April, 1915. The British and American editions differ in that they arrange the material slightly differently and that each includes a story the other omits; "The Poet Speaks with Earth" in the British version, and "The Mist" in the American version. The collection's significance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication (as The Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales) by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the third volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library in September, 1974. The Newcastle edition used the American version of the text. The book collects fifty-one short stories by the author. 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/3356.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3356.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3356.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3356.mobi The Book of Wonder Lord Dunsany http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3355 en 1912 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The Book of Wonder is the seventh book and fifth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. It was first published in hardcover by William Heinemann in November, 1912, and has been reprinted a number of times since. A 1918 edition from the Modern Library was actually a combined edition with Time and the Gods. The book collects fourteen fantasy short stories by the author. 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/3355.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3355.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3355.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3355.mobi A Dreamer's Tales Lord Dunsany http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3352 en 1910 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections A Dreamer's Tales is the fifth book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in September, 1910, and has been reprinted a number of times since. Issued by the Modern Library in a combined edition with The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories as A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories in 1917. The book is actually Dunsany's fourth major work, as his preceding book, The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth (March, 1910), was a chapbook reprinting a single story from his earlier collection The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories (October, 1908). In common with most of Dunsany's early books, A Dreamer's Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories. 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/3352.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3352.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3352.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3352.mobi The Gods of Pegana Lord Dunsany http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3275 en 1905 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna. It was followed by a further collection Time and the Gods and by some stories in The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories . This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3275.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3275.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3275.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3275.mobi Tales of Wonder Lord Dunsany http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3357 en 1916 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The Last Book of Wonder, originally published as Tales of Wonder, is the tenth book and sixth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3357.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3357.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3357.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3357.mobi Tales of Three Hemispheres Lord Dunsany http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3373 en 1920 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections Tales of Three Hemispheres is a collection of fantasy short stories by Lord Dunsany. The first edition was published in Boston by John W. Luce & Co. in November, 1919; the first British edition was published in London by T. Fisher Unwin in June, 1920. The collection's significance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication in a new edition by Owlswick Press in 1976, with illustrations by Tim Kirk and a foreword by H. P. Lovecraft, actually a general article on Dunsany's work originally written by Lovecraft in 1922, but unpublished until it appeared in his posthumous Marginalia (Arkham House, 1944). The book collects 14 short pieces by Dunsany; the last three, under the general heading "Beyond the Fields We Know," are related tales, as explained in the publisher's note preceding the first, "Idle Days on the Yann," which was previously published in the author's earlier collection A Dreamer's Tales, but reprinted in the current one owing to the relationship. 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/3373.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3373.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3373.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3373.mobi Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley Lord Dunsany http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3266 urn:isbn:1592240046 en 1922 Novels Fantasy A coming of age story set in the mythical "golden age" of Spain. The titular character is excluded from the inheritance of the family castle on the grounds that given his expertise with sword and mandolin he should be able to win his own estate and bride. Setting out to achieve his place in the world, Rodriguez quickly acquires a Sancho Panza-like servant, Morano, and goes on to experience a series of adventures en route to his goal. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3266.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3266.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3266.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3266.mobi The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3347 en 1826 Novels History Adventure War The Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826. It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time. Its narrative flaws were criticized from the start, and its length and elaborately formal prose style have reduced its appeal to later readers. Regardless, The Last of the Mohicans is widely read in American literature courses. This second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy is the best known. The Pathfinder, written 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel. Cooper named a principal character Uncas after the most famous of the Mohicans. The real Mohicans lived in the colony of Connecticut in the mid-seventeenth century, and not in the New York frontier a century later. Uncas was a Mohegan, not a Mohican, and Cooper's usage has helped to confuse the names of two tribes to the present day. When John Uncas, his last surviving male descendant died in 1842, the Newark Daily Advertiser wrote "Last of the Mohegans Gone" lamenting the extinction of the tribe. The writer was not aware that Mohegans still existed then and to the present day. The story takes place in 1757 during the Seven Years' War (known in America as the French and Indian War), when France and the United Kingdom battled for control of the American and Canadian colonies. During this war, the French often allied themselves with Native American tribes in order to gain an advantage over the British, with unpredictable and often tragic results. Source: Wikipedia http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3347.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3347.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3347.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3347.mobi The Man Who Came Early Poul William Anderson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3339 en 1957 Short Fiction Science Fiction How rarely science-fiction writers succeed in creating a wholly alien culture may be judged from any adequate study of an earthly culture of a time or place which does not form part of our direct heritage. S.F's aliens may have pseudopods or supersdentific gadgets, but rarely so wholly different a frame of reference as man himself has achieved in other eras. Here F&SFs favorite Scandinavian skald takes us to Iceland near the end of the tenth century and convincingly depicts a truly "alien" way of life and teaches us the tragic truth that the role of a twentieth-century timetraveler to a "primitive" culture need not necessarily be that of Prometheus the Fire-Bringer. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3339.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3339.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3339.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3339.mobi Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen Aleksander Chodźko http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2997 en 1896 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2997.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2997.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2997.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2997.mobi The Art of War Sun Tzu http://www.feedbooks.com/book/168 urn:isbn:0762415983 en -514 Non-Fiction Philosophy War The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that was written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work on military strategies and tactics of its time. The Art of War is one of the oldest books on military strategy in the world. It is the first and one of the most successful works on strategy and has had a huge influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, and beyond. Sun Tzu was the first to recognize the importance of positioning in strategy and that position is affected both by objective conditions in the physical environment and the subjective opinions of competitive actors in that environment. He taught that strategy was not planning in the sense of working through a to-do list, but rather that it requires quick and appropriate responses to changing conditions. Planning works in a controlled environment, but in a competitive environment, http://www.feedbooks.com/book/168.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/168.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/168.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/168.mobi Curious, If True: Strange Tales Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3335 en 1859 Short Fiction Horror Collections Ghost Stories A collection of five spooky Victorian stories. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3335.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3335.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3335.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3335.mobi Sketches by Boz Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3369 en 1836 Short Fiction Collections Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836. Dickens' career as a writer of fiction truly began with this collection in 1833, when he started writing humorous sketches for The Morning Chronicle, using the pen-name "Boz". The first edition was accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. The sketch "Mr. Minns and his Cousin" (originally titled "A Dinner at Poplar Walk") was the first piece of fiction that Dickens ever had published. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3369.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3369.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3369.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3369.mobi Magic for Beginners Kelly Link http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3187 en 2005 Short Fiction Science Fiction Fantasy Collections Link's engaging and funny second collection -- call it kitchen-sink magical realism -- riffs on haunted convenience stores, husbands and wives, rabbits, zombies, weekly apocalyptic poker parties, witches, superheroes, marriage, and cannons -- and includes several new stories. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3187.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3187.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3187.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3187.mobi The Chronicles of Clovis Saki http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3401 en 1911 Short Fiction Collections Humor/Satire One of Saki's best-known works. A collection of satirical short stories featuring Clovis. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3401.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3401.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3401.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3401.mobi Beasts and Super-Beasts Saki http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3399 urn:isbn:1406542865 en 1914 Short Fiction Collections Humor/Satire Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki (the literary pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and first published in 1914. Along with The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts is one of Saki's best-known works. It was his final collection of stories before his death in World War I, and several of its stories, in particular "The Open Window" and "Sredni Vashtar", are reprinted frequently in anthologies. The majority of the volume's stories deal in one fashion with animals, providing the source for its title. The character of Clovis Sangrail, featured in earlier works by Saki, appears in several stories. Most of the stories appeared previously in periodicals. Stylistically, Beasts and Super-Beasts displays the simple language, cynicism and wry humor that characterize Saki's earlier literary output. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3399.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3399.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3399.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3399.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 New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/211 en 1882 Short Fiction Collections New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories are considered by some critics to be his best work, as well as pioneering works in the English short story tradition. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/211.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/211.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/211.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/211.mobi The Great God Pan Arthur Machen http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/457.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/457.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/457.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/457.mobi