No Name Wilkie Collins http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3967 urn:isbn:014043397X en 1862 Novels Crime/Mystery No Name (1862) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century novel revolving around the issue of illegitimacy. The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. When Andrew Vanstone is killed suddenly in an accident and his wife follows shortly thereafter, it is revealed that they were not married at the time of their daughters' births, making their daughters "Nobody's Children" in the eyes of English law and robbing them of their inheritance. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3967.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3967.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3967.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3967.mobi The Moonstone Wilkie Collins http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3311 en 1868 Novels Crime/Mystery Widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels, The Moonstone tells of the events surrounding the disappearance of a mysterious (and cursed) yellow diamond. T. S. Eliot called it 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. It contains a number of ideas which became common tropes of the genre, including a crime being investigated by talented amateurs who happen to be present when it is committed, and two police officers who exemplify respectively the 'Scotland Yard bungler' and the skilled, professional detective. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3311.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3311.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3311.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3311.mobi The Woman in White Wilkie Collins http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696 urn:isbn:0141439610 en 1860 Novels Crime/Mystery Thriller Gothic The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859–1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of 'sensation novels'. As was customary at that time, The Woman in White was first published as a magazine serial. The first episode appeared on 29 November 1859, following Charles Dickens's own A Tale of Two Cities in Dickens's magazine All the Year Round in England, and Harper's Magazine in America. It caused an immediate sensation. Julian Symons (in his 1974 introduction to the Penguin edition) reports that "queues formed outside the offices to buy the next instalment. Bonnets, perfumes, waltzes and quadrilles were called by the book's title. Gladstone cancelled a theatre engagement to go on reading it. And Prince Albert sent a copy to Baron Stockmar." (from Wikipedia) http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3696.mobi Raiders Invisible Desmond Winter Hall http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3977 en 1931 Short Fiction Science Fiction Alone and unaided, Pilot Travers copes with the invisible foes who have struck down America's great engine of war. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3977.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3977.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3977.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3977.mobi L'Assommoir Emile Zola http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3963 en 1877 Novels L'Assommoir (1877) is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the novel—a harsh and uncompromising study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris—was a huge commercial success and established Zola's fame and reputation throughout France and the world. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3963.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3963.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3963.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3963.mobi All Cats Are Gray Andre Alice Norton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3965 en 1953 Short Fiction Science Fiction Under normal conditions a whole person has a decided advantage over a handicapped one. But out in deep space the normal may be reversed—for humans at any rate. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3965.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3965.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3965.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3965.mobi Spawn of the Comet H. Thompson Rich http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3971 en 1931 Short Fiction Science Fiction A swarm of huge, fiery ants, brood of a mystery comet, burst from their shells to threaten the unsuspecting world. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3971.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3971.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3971.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3971.mobi In the Orbit of Saturn Roman Frederick Starzl http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3972 en 1931 Short Fiction Science Fiction Disguised as a voluntary prisoner on a pirate space ship, an I. F. P. man penetrates the mystery of the dreaded "Solar Scourge." Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3972.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3972.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3972.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3972.mobi Compatible Richard R. Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3935 en 1958 Short Fiction Science Fiction Richard R. Smith has been writing SF since 1949, "except for the year that I spent climbing up and down hills in Korea." Former office manager for a construction company, and a chess enthusiast, he now writes full time and adds, "My main ambition in life is to write SF for the next forty years!" There are many ways—murder included—in which husbands can settle certain problems. This was even more drastic! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3935.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3935.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3935.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3935.mobi Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad http://www.feedbooks.com/book/31 urn:isbn:014018371X en 1904 Novels Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, this work is an illustration of the impact of foreign exploitation on a developing nation. As Sulaco, site of an English/American controlled silver mine establishes its independence, its ideals are inevitably compromised. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/31.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/31.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/31.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/31.mobi The Fat and the Thin Emile Zola http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3954 en 1873 Novels English translation of "Le Ventre de Paris" http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3954.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3954.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3954.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3954.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 The Demon Spell Hume Nisbet http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1325 en 1894 Short Fiction Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1325.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1325.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1325.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1325.mobi The Red House Mystery A.A. Milne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3756 urn:isbn:0099521261 en 1921 Novels Crime/Mystery The Red House, stately mansion home of Mark Ablett, is filled with very proper guests when Mark's most improper brother returns from Australia. When the maid hears an argument in the study it isn't long before the brother dies... of a bullet between the eyes! Strangely, the study has been locked from the inside, and Mark Ablett is missing. Only an investigator with remarkable powers of observation could hope to resolve this mystery, and Antony Gillingham (with cheerful Bill Beverly at his side) is just the man. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3756.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3756.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3756.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3756.mobi The Bishop and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3810 urn:isbn:1438508336 en 1919 Short Fiction Collections A collection of various of Anton Chekhov's short stories including: THE BISHOP, THE LETTER, EASTER EVE, A NIGHTMARE, THE MURDER, UPROOTED, and THE STEPPE. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3810.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3810.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3810.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3810.mobi The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' Joseph Conrad http://www.feedbooks.com/book/718 urn:isbn:1406921297 en 1897 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/718.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/718.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/718.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/718.mobi A Personal Record Joseph Conrad http://www.feedbooks.com/book/731 urn:isbn:0140189661 en 1912 Non-Fiction Biography This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/731.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/731.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/731.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/731.mobi Lord Jim Joseph Conrad http://www.feedbooks.com/book/719 urn:isbn:0140180923 en 1900 Novels Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman--"as unflinching as a hero in a book"--who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from an eastern port. His life is ruined: an isolated scandal has assumed horrifying proportions. But, then he is befriended by an older man named Marlow who helps to establish him in exotic Patusan, a remote Malay settlement where his courage is put to the test once more. Lord Jim is a book about courage and cowardice, self-knowledge and personal growth. It is one of the most profound and rewarding psychological novels in English. Set in the context of social change and colonial expansion in late Victorian England, it embodies in Jim the values and turmoil of a fading empire. This new edition uses the first English edition text and includes a new introduction and notes by leading Conrad scholar Jacques Berthoud, glossaries, and an appendix on Conrad's sources and reading. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/719.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/719.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/719.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/719.mobi The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad http://www.feedbooks.com/book/721 urn:isbn:0192801694 en 1907 Novels Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be 'a simple tale' proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/721.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/721.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/721.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/721.mobi Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad http://www.feedbooks.com/book/15 urn:isbn:0486264645 en 1902 Novels Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary. The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/15.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/15.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/15.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/15.mobi