Cranford Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2723 urn:isbn:0980921023 en 1851 Novels <p>Cranford is a witty portrait of small town life in early-Victorian England. The story unfolds through the eyes of Mary Smith, a young woman who observes the comedic struggles of two middle aged sisters in their efforts to maintain a level of refined dignity amid poverty.</p> http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2723.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2723.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2723.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2723.mobi Ghost Stories of Chapelizod Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1579 en 1851 Short Fiction Horror Ghost Stories http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1579.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1579.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1579.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1579.mobi Moby-Dick Herman Melville http://www.feedbooks.com/book/54 urn:isbn:0553213113 en 1851 Novels Adventure <p>Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby-Dick, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaling ships know of Moby-Dick, and fewer yet have encountered him. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to exact revenge.</p> http://www.feedbooks.com/book/54.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/54.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/54.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/54.mobi Schalken the Painter Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1568 en 1851 Short Fiction Horror Ghost Stories http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1568.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1568.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1568.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1568.mobi The Evil Guest Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1529 urn:isbn:1426440693 en 1851 Novels Gothic http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1529.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1529.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1529.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1529.mobi The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1513 urn:isbn:0553212702 en 1851 Novels Romance Gothic <p>In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family’s salvation—or its downfall.</p> <p>Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables “a Romance,” and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared “the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel.”</p> http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1513.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1513.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1513.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1513.mobi What Christmas Is as We Grow Older Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/705 en 1851 Short Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/705.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/705.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/705.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/705.mobi