The Pioneers James Fenimore Cooper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3939 urn:isbn:0451530470 en 1823 Novels History Adventure War The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period of time it covers makes it the fourth chronologically. The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features a middle-aged Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo), Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton, whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper, and Elizabeth Temple (the author's sister Susan Cooper), of Cooperstown. The story begins with an argument between the Judge and the Leatherstocking over who killed a buck, and as Cooper reviews many of the changes to New York's Lake Otsego, questions of environmental stewardship, conservation, and use prevail. The plot develops as the Leatherstocking and Chingachgook begin to compete with the Temples for the loyalties of a mysterious young visitor, "Oliver Edwards," the "young hunter," who eventually marries Elizabeth. Chingachgook dies, exemplifying the vexed figure of the "dying Indian," and Natty vanishes into the sunset. For all its strange twists and turns, 'The Pioneers' may be considered one of the first ecological novels in the United States. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3939.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3939.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3939.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3939.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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1574 en 1869 Short Fiction Horror Ghost Stories http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1574.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1574.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1574.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1574.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 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 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 Through Russia Maxim Gorky http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3920 en 1906 Short Fiction Collections Travel A collection of short stories about Russia. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3920.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3920.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3920.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3920.mobi Essays (First Series) Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3882 en 1841 Essay Collections A collections of essays: History, Self-reliance, Compensation, Spiritual laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The over-soul, Circles, Intellect & Art. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3882.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3882.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3882.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3882.mobi The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas http://www.feedbooks.com/book/73 urn:isbn:037576030X en 1845 Novels Adventure The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas' most popular work. It is also among the highest selling books of all time. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just before the Hundred Days through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book. It is primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, forgiveness and death, and is told in the style of an adventure story. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/73.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/73.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/73.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/73.mobi Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott http://www.feedbooks.com/book/203 urn:isbn:0486436772 en 1820 Novels War Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families at a time when the English nobility was overwhelmingly Norman. It follows the Saxon protagonist, Wilfrid of Ivanhoe, who is out of favour with his father owing to his courting the Lady Rowena and for his allegiance to the Norman king Richard I of England. The story is set in 1194, after the end of the Third Crusade, when many of the Crusaders were still returning to Europe. King Richard, having been captured by the Duke of Saxony, on his way back, was still supposed to be in the arms of his captors. The legendary Robin Hood, initially under the name of Locksley, is also a character in the story, as are his 'merry men,' including Friar Tuck and, less so, Alan-a-Dale. (Little John is merely mentioned.) The character that Scott gave to Robin Hood in Ivanhoe helped shape the modern notion of this figure as a cheery noble outlaw. Other major characters include Ivanhoe's intractable Saxon father Cedric, a descendant of the Saxon King Harold Godwinson; various Knights Templar and churchmen; the loyal serfs Gurth the swineherd and the jester Wamba, whose observations punctuate much of the action; and the Jewish moneylender, Isaac of York, equally passionate of money and his daughter, Rebecca. The book was written and published during a period of increasing struggle for Emancipation of the Jews in England, and there are frequent references to injustice against them. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/203.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/203.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/203.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/203.mobi Mother Maxim Gorky http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3918 en 1907 Novels History Politics The famous novel of revolutionary conversion and struggle. This novel of Russia before the Revolution is without question the masterpiece of Gorky, Russia's greatest living writer. Into one passionate, astonishing book has been gathered the spirit of the terrifying struggle against the Czar's autocracy. In it Russia stands forth in a flood of light. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3918.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3918.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3918.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3918.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