The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3940 urn:isbn:014039026X en 1827 Novels History Adventure War The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, who is simply known as "the trapper" in it. Chronologically The Prairie is the fifth and final installment of the Leatherstocking Tales. It depicts Natty in the final year of his life still proving helpful to people in distress on the American frontier. Continuity with The Last of the Mohicans is indicated by the appearance of the grandson of Duncan and Alice Heyward of The Last of the Mohicans and the noble Pawnee chief Hard Heart, whose name is English for the French nickname for the Delaware, le Coeur-dur. Natty is drawn to Hard Heart as a noble warrior in the likeness of his dear friend Uncas, "the last of the Mohicans." http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3940.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3940.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3940.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3940.mobi The Pathfinder James Fenimore Cooper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3938 urn:isbn:0140390715 en 1840 Novels History Adventure War The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1840. It is the fourth novel featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and is considered as forming the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3938.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3938.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3938.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3938.mobi The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3937 urn:isbn:048646136X en 1841 Novels History Adventure War The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. The novel's setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of The Pioneers, the first of the Leatherstocking tales to be published (1823). The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the Leatherstocking tales. Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking tales. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3937.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3937.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3937.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3937.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 Coral Island Robert Michael Ballantyne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951 en 1857 Novels Young Readers Adventure Three boys, fifteen-year-old Ralph Rover (the narrator), eighteen-year-old Jack Martin and fourteen-year-old Peterkin Gay, are the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island. At first their life on the island is idyllic; food, in the shape of fruits, fish and wild pigs, is plentiful, and using their only possessions; a broken telescope, an iron-bound oar and a small axe, they fashion a shelter and even construct a small boat. Their first contact with other people comes after several months when they observe two large outrigger canoes land on the beach. The two groups are engaged in battle and the three boys intervene to successfully defeat the attacking party, earning the gratitude of the chief Tararo. The Polynesians leave and the three boys are alone once more. Then more unwelcome visitors arrive in the shape of pirates, who make a living trading, or stealing, sandalwood. The three boys conceal themselves in a hidden cave, but Ralph is captured when he sets out to see if the pirates have left, and is taken aboard the pirate schooner. Ralph strikes up an unexpected friendship with one of the pirates, "Bloody Bill", and when they call at an island to trade for more wood he meets Tararo again. On the island he sees all facets of island life, including the popular sport of surfing, as well as the practice of infanticide and cannibalism. Rising tension leads to an attack by the inhabitants on the pirates, leaving only Ralph alive and Bloody Bill mortally wounded. However they manage to make their escape in the schooner. After Bill dies, making a death-bed repentance for his evil life, Ralph manages to sail back to the Coral Island to be re-united with his friends. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.mobi The Great Impersonation Edward Phillips Oppenheim http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3877 urn:isbn:1920265643 en 1920 Novels Crime/Mystery Romance Adventure Excerpt: The trouble from which great events were to come began when Everard Dominey, who had been fighting his way through the scrub for the last three quarters of an hour towards those thin, spiral wisps of smoke, urged his pony to a last despairing effort and came crashing through the great oleander shrub to pitch forward on his head in the little clearing. It developed the next morning, when he found himself for the first time for many months on the truckle bed, between linen sheets, with a cool, bamboo-twisted roof between him and the relentless sun. He raised himself a little in the bed. "Where the mischief am I?" he demanded. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3877.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3877.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3877.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3877.mobi The Bridge of the Gods Frederic Homer Balch http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3944 en 1891 Novels Adventure Western This tale of the Indians of the far West has fairly earned its lasting popularity, not only by the intense interest of the story, but by its faithful delineations of Indian character. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3944.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3944.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3944.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3944.mobi The Dark Star Robert William Chambers http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3855 urn:isbn:0548997381 en 1916 Novels Romance Adventure A pastor's daughter is inadvertently involved the heist of the famous Dark Star gem. Is there a prince who can save her from ruin and recover the stone? This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3855.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3855.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3855.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3855.mobi The road to Frontenac Samuel Merwin http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3948 en 1901 Novels History Western A book about Denonville's expedition against the Iroquois. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3948.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3948.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3948.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3948.mobi Lady Susan Jane Austen http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3922 urn:isbn:0140431020 en 1794 Novels Romance Humor/Satire Austen's "most wicked tale," Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. Lady Susan is a selfish, attractive woman, who tries to trap the best possible husband while maintaining a relationship with a married man. She subverts all the standards of the romantic novel; she has an active role, she's not only beautiful but intelligent and witty, and her suitors are significantly younger than she is. Source: Wikipedia http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3922.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3922.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3922.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3922.mobi An Antartic Mystery Jules Verne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3947 en 1899 Novels Crime/Mystery Adventure A sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3947.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3947.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3947.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3947.mobi Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3578 urn:isbn:0141441798 en 1886 Novels History Adventure Politics Being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3578.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3578.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3578.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3578.mobi A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/81 urn:isbn:0553211765 en 1859 Novels History A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding savage brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated English barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/81.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/81.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/81.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/81.mobi Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3893 urn:isbn:1587157039 en 1894 Novels Adventure Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Detective, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3893.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3893.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3893.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3893.mobi The Curse of Capistrano (The Mark of Zorro) Johnston McCulley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3840 urn:isbn:1591940710 en 1919 Novels Romance Adventure The Curse of Capistrano is a 1919 novella by Johnston McCulley and the first work to feature the fictional character Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox). After the enormous success of the 1920 film adaptation, The Mark of Zorro, the story was republished under that name. Prior to being published in novella form, The Curse of Capistrano appeared as five serialized installments in the pulp magazine All-Story Weekly. [from Wikipedia] This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3840.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3840.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3840.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3840.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 Book of Five Rings Musashi Miyamoto http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3953 urn:isbn:1590302486 en 1644 Non-Fiction Philosophy Essay Biography Miyamoto Musashi's Go Rin no Sho or the book of five rings, is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra. The five "books" refer to the idea that there are different elements of battle, just as there are different physical elements in life, as described by Buddhism, Shinto, and other Eastern religions. Through the book Musashi defends his thesis: a man who conquers himself is ready to take it on on the world, should need arise. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3953.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3953.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3953.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3953.mobi I, Robot Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337 urn:isbn:1560259817 en 2005 Short Fiction Science Fiction "I, Robot" is a science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow published in 2005. The story is set in the type of police state needed to ensure that only one company is allowed to make robots, and only one type of robot is allowed. The story follows single Father detective Arturo Icaza de Arana-Goldberg while he tries to track down his missing teenage daughter. The detective is a bit of an outcast because his wife defected to Eurasia, a rival Superpower. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.mobi Casanova's Alibi Rafael Sabatini http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3952 en 1914 Short Fiction History Adventure Short story originally published as "The Alibi" This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3952.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3952.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3952.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3952.mobi The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe http://www.feedbooks.com/book/665 urn:isbn:1406943266 en 1719 Novels Adventure http://www.feedbooks.com/book/665.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/665.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/665.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/665.mobi