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 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 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 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 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 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 Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3871 urn:isbn:0199549710 en 1903 Novels Adventure War Thriller The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a patriotic British 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. It is a novel that "owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain"; perhaps more significantly, it was a spy novel that "established a formula that included a mass of verifiable detail, which gave authenticity to the story – the same ploy that would be used so well by John Buchan, Ian Fleming, John le Carré and many others." Ken Follett called it "the first modern thriller." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3871.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3871.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3871.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3871.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 Jarwin and Cuffy Robert Michael Ballantyne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3548 en 1900 Novels Adventure Excerpt: "In all the wide expanse of ocean that surrounded that island, there was nothing visible save one small, solitary speck on the far-off horizon. It might have been mistaken for a seagull, but it was in reality a raft—a mass of spars and planks rudely bound together with ropes. A boat’s mast rose from the centre of it, on which hung a rag of sail, and a small red flag drooped motionless from its summit. There were a few casks on the highest part of the raft, but no living soul was visible. Nevertheless, it was not without tenants. In a hollow between two of the spars, under the shadow of one of the casks, lay the form of a man. The canvas trousers, cotton shirt, blue jacket, and open necktie, bespoke him a sailor, but it seemed as though there were nothing left save the dead body of the unfortunate tar, so pale and thin and ghastly were his features. A terrier dog lay beside him, so shrunken that it looked like a mere scrap of door-matting. Both man and dog were apparently dead, but they were not so in reality, for, after lying about an hour quite motionless, the man slowly opened his eyes. Ah, reader, it would have touched your heart to have seen those eyes! They were so deep set, as if in dark caverns, and so unnaturally large. They gazed round in a vacant way for a few moments, until they fell on the dog. Then a gleam of fire shot through them, and their owner raised his large, gaunt, wasted frame on one elbow, while he gazed with a look of eagerness, which was perfectly awful, at his dumb companion. “Not dead yet!” he said, drawing a long sigh." http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3548.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3548.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3548.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3548.mobi The Vision Of Tom Chuff Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1577 en 1870 Short Fiction Horror Ghost Stories http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1577.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1577.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1577.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1577.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 Tragedy Trail Johnston McCulley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3950 en 1919 Novels Crime/Mystery A Terry Trimble Murder Mystery This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3950.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3950.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3950.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3950.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 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1421 urn:isbn:0199536953 en 1892 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on October 14, 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on October 15 by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1421.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1421.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1421.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1421.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 Trilby George du Maurier http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3762 urn:isbn:0199538808 en 1894 Novels Romance Horror Gothic Trilby (1894) is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula. Trilby is set in the 1850s in an idyllic bohemian Paris. Though it features the hijinks of three lovable English artists — especially the delicate genius Little Billee — its most memorable character is Svengali, a Jewish rogue, a masterful musician, and an irresistible hypnotist. Trilby O'Ferrall, the novel's heroine, is a magnificent half-Irish girl working in Paris as an artists' model and laundress; all the men in the novel are in love with her. The relation between Trilby and Svengali forms only a small portion of the novel, which is mainly an evocation of a milieu, but it is a crucial one. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3762.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3762.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3762.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3762.mobi Tom Sawyer, Detective Mark Twain http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3894 urn:isbn:1441497102 en 1896 Novels Crime/Mystery Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like the two preceding novels, 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/3894.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3894.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3894.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3894.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 Silas Marner George Eliot http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3738 urn:isbn:0199536775 en 1861 Novels Wrongly accused of theft and exiled by community of Lantern Yard, Silas Marner settles in the village of Raveloe, living as a recluse and caring only for work and money. Bitter and unhappy, Silas' circumstances change when an orphaned child, actually the unaknowledged child of Godfrey Cass, eldest son of the local squire, is left in his care. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3738.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3738.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3738.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3738.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