The Princess and Curdie George MacDonald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3418 en 1883 Novels Young Readers Fantasy A sequel to The Princess and the Goblin: Princess Irene and Curdie are a year or two older, and must overthrow a set of corrupt ministers who are poisoning Irene's father, the king. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3418.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3418.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3418.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3418.mobi Lilith George MacDonald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3414 en 1895 Novels Fantasy Lilith is a fantasy novel written by Scottish writer George MacDonald and first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in September 1969. Lilith is considered among the darkest of MacDonald's works, and among the most profound. It is a story concerning the nature of life, death and salvation. Many believe MacDonald is arguing for Christian universalism, or the idea that all will eventually be saved. Mr. Vane, the protagonist of Lilith, owns a library that seems to be haunted by the former librarian, who looks much like a raven from the brief glimpses he catches of the wraith. After finally encountering the supposed ghost, the mysterious Mr. Raven, Vane learns that Raven had known his father; indeed, Vane's father had visited the strange parallel universe from which Raven comes and goes and now resides therein. Vane follows Raven into the world through a mirror (this symbolistic realm is described as "the region of the seven dimensions", a term taken from Jacob Boehme). Source: Wikipedia http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3414.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3414.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3414.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3414.mobi Phantastes George MacDonald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3437 en 1858 Novels Fantasy Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fourteenth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April 1970. This was the first prose work published by MacDonald. Because of its limited financial success, MacDonald saw himself forced to turn to writing realistic novels. Phantastes, however, exerted a strong influence on fantasy authors of later generations: for example, C. S. Lewis in his book Suprised by Joy claimed that his imagination had been "baptized" by reading it. The story centers on the character Anodos ("pathless" or "ascent" in Greek) and takes its inspiration from German Romanticism, particularly Novalis. The story concerns a young man who is pulled into a dreamlike world and there hunts for his ideal of female beauty, embodied by the "Marble Lady". Anodos lives through many adventures and temptations while in the other world, until he is finally ready to give up his ideals. In its themes and overall storyline, Phantastes is a kind of dry run for MacDonald's later novel Lilith. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3437.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3437.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3437.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3437.mobi The Sea Fairies Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3410 en 1911 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Mayre Griffiths, nicknamed Trot, or sometimes Tiny Trot, is a little girl who lives on the coast of southern California. Her father is the captain of a sailing schooner, and her constant companion is Cap'n Bill Weedles, a retired sailor with a wooden leg. (Cap'n Bill had been Trot's father's skipper, and Charlie Griffiths had been his mate, before the accident that took the older man's leg.) Trot and Cap'n Bill spend many of their days roaming the beaches near home, or rowing and sailing along the coast. One day, Trot wishes that she could see a mermaid; her wish is overheard, and granted the next day. The mermaids explain to Trot, and the distressed Cap'n Bill, that they are benevolent fairies; when they offer Trot a chance to pay a visit to their land in mermaid form, Trot is enthusiastic, and Bill is too loyal to let her go off without him. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3410.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3410.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3410.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3410.mobi Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) J.M. Barrie http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3413 urn:isbn:0543949796 en 1911 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and Peter and Wendy are the stage play and novel (respectively) which tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook. The story was written by Scottish playwright and novelist J. M. Barrie, inspired by his friendship with the Llewelyn-Davies family. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3413.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3413.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3413.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3413.mobi The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3421 en 1863 Novels Young Readers Fantasy The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular during its day, and was a mainstay of children's literature through the 1920s. The protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house. There he dies and is transformed into a "water baby", as he is told by a caddis fly — an insect that sheds its skin — and begins his moral education. The story is thematically concerned with Christian redemption, though Kingsley also uses the book to argue that England treats its poor badly, and to question child labour, among other themes. Source: Wikipedia http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3421.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3421.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3421.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3421.mobi The Enchanted Castle Edith Nesbit http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1599 urn:isbn:0140367438 en 1907 Novels Young Readers Fantasy An invisible princess, a magic ring, and more adventures than you could dream of. This is what Gerald, Kathleen and Jimmy find when they stumble upon a mysterious castle. At first it all appears to be a lark. But the children soon discover they need all their bravery and ingenuity to contend with the castle's supernatural forces. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1599.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1599.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1599.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1599.mobi American Fairy Tales Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3408 en 1901 Short Fiction Young Readers Fantasy Collections 12 Fairy Tales from the author of the Wizard of Oz series of books. Inspired by Lang and the Brothers Grimm, Baum sought to create an American type of fairy tales, avoiding the usual violence and roman often found in these sort of stories. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3408.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3408.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3408.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3408.mobi Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh Sayers http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3406 en 1923 Novels Crime/Mystery Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect at the same time a noted financier goes missing under strange circumstances. As the case progresses it becomes clear that the two events are linked in some way. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3406.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3406.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3406.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3406.mobi Anne of Avonlea Lucy Maud Montgomery http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3197 urn:isbn:1402754280 en 1909 Novels Young Readers Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from Anne of Green Gables, as well as new ones like Mr Harrison, Miss Lavendar Lewis, Paul Irving, and the twins Dora and Davy. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3197.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3197.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3197.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3197.mobi Five Children and It Edith Nesbit http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1600 urn:isbn:0140367357 en 1902 Novels Young Readers Fantasy To Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, the house in the country promises a summer of freedom and play. But when they accidently uncover an accident Psammead--or Sand-fairy--who has the power to make wishes come true, they find themselves having the holiday of a lifetime, sharing one thrilling adventure after another. Asleep since dinosaurs roamed the earth, the ill-tempered, odd--looking Psammead --with his spider-shaped body, bat's ears, and snail's eyes --grudgingly agrees to grant the children one wish per day. Soon, though the children discover that their wishes have a tendancy to turn out quite differnetly than expected. Whatever they wish whether it's to fly like a bird, live in a mighty castle, or have an immense fortune --something goes terribly wrong, hilariously wrong. Then an accidental wish has horrible consequences, and the children are faced with a difficult choice: to let an innoncent manbe charged with a crime or to lose for all time their gift of magical wishes. Five Children and It is one of E. Nesbit's most beloved tales of enchantment. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1600.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1600.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1600.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1600.mobi The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197 urn:isbn:0688166776 en 1900 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Dorothy is a young girl who lives on a Kansas farm with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and little dog Toto. One day the farmhouse, with Dorothy inside, is caught up in a tornado and deposited in a field in the country of the Munchkins. The falling house kills the Wicked Witch of the East. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.mobi The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3403 en 1910 Novels Crime/Mystery The story of a man named Erik, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who terrorizes the Opera Garnier in Paris. He builds his home beneath it and takes the love of his life, a beautiful soprano, under his wing. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3403.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3403.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3403.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3403.mobi Anne of the Island Lucy Maud Montgomery http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3272 en 1915 Novels Young Readers Romance This is the continuing story of Anne Shirley and the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne attends Redmond College in Kingsport, where she is studying for her BA. The book is dedicated to "all the girls all over the world who have "wanted more" about ANNE." There was a gap of six years between the publications of Anne of Avonlea and the publication of this book. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3272.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3272.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3272.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3272.mobi The Marvelous Land of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/202 urn:isbn:0064409635 en 1904 Novels Young Readers Fantasy First issued in 1904, L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz is the story of the wonderful adventures of the young boy named Tip as he travels throughout the many lands of Oz. Here he meets with our old friends the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, as well as some new friends like Jack Pumpkinhead, the Wooden Sawhorse, the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, and the amazing Gump. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/202.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/202.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/202.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/202.mobi The Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3646 urn:isbn:0805008020 en 1898 Short Fiction Young Readers Fantasy The Reluctant Dragon is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame (originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days), which served as the key element to the 1941 feature film with the same name from Walt Disney Productions. The story has also been set to music as a children's operetta by John Rutter, with words by David Grant. The story takes place in the Berkshire Downs in Oxfordshire (where the author lived and where, according to legend, St George did fight a dragon). It is Grahame's most famous short story. It is arguably much more well-known than Dream Days itself or the related The Golden Age. It can be seen as a prototype to most modern stories in which the dragon is a sympathetic character rather than a threat. In Grahame's story, a young boy discovers an erudite, mushroom-loving dragon living in the Downs above his home. The two become friends, but soon afterwards the dragon is discovered by the townsfolk, who send for St George to rid them of it. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3646.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3646.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3646.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3646.mobi The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3645 urn:isbn:0451530144 en 1908 Novels Young Readers Fantasy The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3645.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3645.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3645.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3645.mobi Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2776 en 1908 Novels Young Readers Marilla Cuthbert and Matthew Cuthbert, middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt a boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia as a helper on their farm. Through a series of mishaps, the person who ends up under their roof is a precocious girl of eleven named Anne Shirley. Anne is bright and quick, eager to please but dissatisfied with her name, her pale countenance dotted with freckles, and with her long braids of red hair. Being a child of imagination, however, Anne takes much joy in life, and adapts quickly, thriving in the environment of Prince Edward Island. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2776.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2776.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2776.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2776.mobi The Magic City Edith Nesbit http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1607 urn:isbn:1406530743 en 1910 Novels Young Readers Fantasy An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1607.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1607.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1607.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1607.mobi The Story of the Amulet Edith Nesbit http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1602 urn:isbn:0140367527 en 1905 Novels Young Readers Fantasy When Cyril, Robert, Anthea and Jane rescue the magic sand-fairy from a pet shop, they have no idea of the astonishing adventures to come! This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1602.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1602.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1602.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1602.mobi