Doctor Thorne Anthony Trollope http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2025 urn:isbn:1934169757 en 1858 Novels http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2025.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2025.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2025.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2025.mobi Going Into Society Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/698 urn:isbn:1576461246 en 1858 Short Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/698.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/698.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/698.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/698.mobi My Lady Ludlow Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3326 urn:isbn:0192818384 en 1858 Novels My Lady Ludlow is a long novella (over 77,000 words). It appeared in the magazine Household Words in 1858, and was republished in Round the Sofa in 1859, with framing passages added at the start and end. It recounts the daily lives of the widowed Lady Ludlow of Hanbury and the spinster Miss Galindo, and their caring for other single women and girls. It is also concerned with Lady Ludlow's man of business, Mr Horner, and a poacher's son named Harry Gregson whose education he provides for. With Cranford, The Last Generation in England and Mr. Harrison's Confessions, it was adapted for TV in 2007 as Cranford. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3326.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3326.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3326.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3326.mobi Oblomov Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov http://www.feedbooks.com/book/10 urn:isbn:1933480092 en 1858 Novels Romance Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature. Oblomov was compared to Shakespeare's Hamlet as answering 'No!' to the question "To be or not to be?" Oblomov is a young, generous nobleman who seems incapable of making important decisions or undertaking any significant actions. Throughout the novel he rarely leaves his room or bed and famously fails to leave his bed for the first 150 pages of the novel. The book was considered a satire of Russian nobility whose social and economic function was increasingly in question in mid-nineteenth century Russia. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/10.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/10.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/10.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/10.mobi Phantastes George MacDonald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3437 en 1858 Novels Fantasy Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fourteenth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April 1970. This was the first prose work published by MacDonald. Because of its limited financial success, MacDonald saw himself forced to turn to writing realistic novels. Phantastes, however, exerted a strong influence on fantasy authors of later generations: for example, C. S. Lewis in his book Suprised by Joy claimed that his imagination had been "baptized" by reading it. The story centers on the character Anodos ("pathless" or "ascent" in Greek) and takes its inspiration from German Romanticism, particularly Novalis. The story concerns a young man who is pulled into a dreamlike world and there hunts for his ideal of female beauty, embodied by the "Marble Lady". Anodos lives through many adventures and temptations while in the other world, until he is finally ready to give up his ideals. In its themes and overall storyline, Phantastes is a kind of dry run for MacDonald's later novel Lilith. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3437.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3437.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3437.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3437.mobi The Diamond Lens Fitz James O'Brien http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2562 urn:isbn:1406574341 en 1858 Short Fiction Science Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2562.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2562.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2562.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2562.mobi The Lost Room Fitz James O'Brien http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2561 en 1858 Short Fiction Science Fiction In the tale, the unnamed narrator relates a tale where he literally loses his room in a surreal situation that sounds more like a rather unpleasant version of Alice in Wonderland. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2561.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2561.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2561.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2561.mobi