Kai Lung's Golden Hours Ernest Bramah Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906 en 1922 Novels Fantasy Kai Lung's Golden Hours is a fantasy novel by Ernest Bramah. It was first published in hardcover in London by Grant Richards Ltd. in October, 1922, and there have been numerous editions since. The first edition included a preface by Hilaire Belloc, which has also been a feature of every edition since. Its importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its reissuing by Ballantine Books as the forty-fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April, 1972. As with other Kai Lung novels, the main plot serves primarily as a vehicle for the presentation of the gem-like, aphorism-laden stories told by the protagonist Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. In Kai Lung's Golden Hours he is brought before the court of the Mandarin Shan Tien on treasonable charges by the Mandarin's confidential agent Ming-shu. In a unique defense, Kai Lung recites his beguiling tales to the Mandarin, successfully postponing his conviction time after time until he is finally set free. In the process he attains the love and hand of the maiden Hwa-Mei. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.mobi Four Max Carrados Detective Stories Ernest Bramah Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3687 urn:isbn:0554320045 en 1914 Science Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections The adventures of a blind detective in London, featuring four compact mysteries: The Coin of Dionysius, The Knight's Cross Signal Problem, The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage & The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3687.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3687.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3687.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3687.mobi The Mirror of Kong Ho Ernest Bramah Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3905 en 1905 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Humor/Satire A lively and amusing collection of letters on western living written by Kong Ho, a Chinese gentleman. These addressed to his homeland, refer to the Westerners in London as barbarians and many of the aids to life in our society give Kong Ho endless food for thought. These are things such as the motor car and the piano; unknown in China at this time. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3905.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3905.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3905.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3905.mobi The Well at the World's End William Morris http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3628 urn:isbn:1598182986 en 1892 Novels Romance Fantasy Using language with elements of the medieval tales which were his models, Morris tells the story of Ralph of Upmeads, the fourth and youngest son of a minor king, who sets out, contrary to his parents' wishes, to find knightly adventure and seek the Well at the World's End, a magic well which will confer a near-immortality and strengthened destiny on those who drink from it. Although the novel is relatively obscure by today's standards it has had a significant influence on many notable fantasy authors. C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien both seem to have found inspiration in The Well at the World's End: ancient tables of stone, a "King Peter", a quick, white horse named "Silverfax", and a character named "Gandalf" are only a few, to say nothing of Ralph's journey home as denouement, anticipating the Hobbits' return and battle for the Shire. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3628.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3628.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3628.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3628.mobi The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651 urn:isbn:1585790192 en 1895 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Biography Grahame’s reminiscences are notable for their conception “of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult ‘Olympians’ who have wholly forgotten how it feels to be young”--a theme later explored by J. M. Barrie and other authors. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.mobi The Kama Sutra Vatsyayana http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3622 urn:isbn:0375759247 en 400 Non-Fiction Philosophy Sexuality The Kama Sutra, is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by the Indian scholar Vatsyayana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sex. Kāma means sensual or sexual pleasure, and sūtra are the guidlines of yoga, the word itself means thread in Sanskrit. The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts known generically as Kama Shastra). Traditionally, the first transmission of Kama Shastra or "Discipline of Kama" is attributed to Nandi the sacred bull, Shiva's doorkeeper, who was moved to sacred utterance by overhearing the lovemaking of the god and his wife Parvati and later recorded his utterances for the benefit of mankind. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3622.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3622.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3622.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3622.mobi Dream Days Kenneth Grahame http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3650 urn:isbn:143783597X en 1898 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The further adventures of five brothers and sisters growing up in the English countryside in the late nineteenth century. Sequel to "The Golden Age.". This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3650.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3650.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3650.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3650.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 Yama: The Pit Aleksandr Kuprin http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3633 urn:isbn:0554007592 en 1915 Novels Sexuality A novel about prostitution in Moscow. From the introduction: It must not be thought, despite its locale, that Kuprin’s “Yama” is a picture of Russian prostitution solely; it is intrinsically universal. All that is necessary is to change the kopecks into cents, pennies, sous or pfennings; compute the versts into miles or metres; Jennka may be Eugenie or Jeannette; and for Yama, simply read Whitechapel, Montmartre, or the Barbary Coast. That is why “Yama” is a “tremendous, staggering, and truthful book— a terrific book.” It has been called notorious, lurid— even oleographic. So are, perhaps, the picaresques of Murillo, the pictorial satires of Hogarth, the bizarreries of Goya... This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3633.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3633.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3633.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3633.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 Enchanted Type-Writer John Kendrick Bangs http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2841 urn:isbn:158715496X en 1899 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2841.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2841.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2841.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2841.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 Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3638 urn:isbn:1604500298 en 1924 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Adventure Thriller "The Most Dangerous Game" features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean, and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat. The story is an inversion of the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3638.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3638.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3638.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3638.mobi The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3625 urn:isbn:1437436870 en 1903 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections Humor/Satire A collection of 15 fantasy short stories, similar to the "Arabian Nights", set in Chicago. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3625.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3625.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3625.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3625.mobi Tulan Carroll M. Capps http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3641 en 1960 Short Fiction Science Fiction To disobey the orders of the Council of Four was unthinkable to a Space Admiral of the old school. But the trouble was, the school system had changed. A man, a fighter, an Admiral had to think for himself now, if his people were to live. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3641.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3641.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3641.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3641.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 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 Whirligigs O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3621 urn:isbn:1419126164 en 1910 Short Fiction Collections A collectior of 24 short stories: The World and the Door; The Theory and the Hound; The Hypotheses of Failure; Calloway's Code; A Matter of Mean Elevation; Girl; Sociology in Serge and Straw; The Ransom of Red Chief; The Marry Month of May; A Technical Error; Suite Homes and Their Romance; The Whirligig of Life; A Sacrifice Hit; The Roads We Take; A Blackjack Bargainer; The Song and the Sergeant; One Dollar's Worth; A Newspaper Story; Tommy's Burglar; A Chaparral Christmas Gift; A Little Local Colour; Georgia's Ruling; Blind Man's Holiday; and Madame Bo Peep of the Ranches. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3621.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3621.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3621.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3621.mobi The Trimmed Lamp O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3619 urn:isbn:0543904261 en 1907 Short Fiction Collections Other Stories of the Four Million: A Madison Square Arabian Night; The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball; The Pendulum; Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen; The Assessor of Success; The Buyer from Cactus City; The Badge of Policeman O'Roon; Brickdust Row; The Making of a New Yorker; Vanity and Some Sables; The Social Triangle; The Purple Dress; The Foreign Policy of Company 99; The Lost Blend; A Harlem Tragedy; The Guilty Party - an East Side Tragedy; According to their Lights; A Midsummer Knight's Dream; The Last Leaf; The Count and the Wedding Guest; The Country of Elusion; The Ferry of Unfulfilment; The Tale of a Tainted Tenner; Elsie in New York; and the title story. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3619.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3619.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3619.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3619.mobi The Wood Beyond the World William Morris http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626 urn:isbn:0345237307 en 1894 Novels Fantasy The Wood Beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. When the wife of Golden Walter betrays him for another man, he leaves home on a trading voyage to avoid the necessity of a feud with her family. His efforts are fruitless, as word comes to him enroute that his wife's clan has killed his father. As a storm then carries him to a faraway country, the effect of this news is merely to sunder his last ties to his homeland. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.mobi