A Strange Disappearance Anna Katharine Green http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3099 urn:isbn:0554265982 en 1880 Novels Crime/Mystery A housekeeper reports the disappearance of a sewing-maid from a wealthy household. She insists that the girl has been abducted. Mr Gryce and a young detective investigate. The missing young woman has a secret. But she is not the only one… This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3099.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3099.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3099.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3099.mobi Across the Zodiac Percy Greg http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1981 en 1880 Novels Science Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1981.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1981.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1981.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1981.mobi Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Lewis Wallace http://feedbooks.com/book/3540 urn:isbn:1404185712 en 1880 Novels History Religion Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers. Wallace's work is part of an important sub-genre of historical fiction set among the characters of the New Testament. The novel was a phenomenal best-seller; it soon surpassed Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) as the best-selling American novel and retained this distinction until the 1936 publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. The central character is Judah, prince of the Hebrew house of Hur. Judah grows up in Jerusalem, during the turbulent years around the birth of Christ. His best friend is Messala, a Roman. As adults Judah and Messala become rivals, each hating the other, which leads to Judah's downfall and eventual triumph. Elements of the story include leprosy, naval battles among galleys, the Roman hippodrome, Roman adoption, Magus Balthasar, the Arab sheikh Ilderim. http://feedbooks.com/book/3540.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3540.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3540.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3540.mobi Captain Burle Emile Zola http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3324 en 1880 Short Fiction It was nine o'clock. The little town of Vauchamp, dark and silent, had just retired to bed amid a chilly November rain. In the Rue des Recollets, one of the narrowest and most deserted streets of the district of Saint-Jean, a single window was still alight on the third floor of an old house, from whose damaged gutters torrents of water were falling into the street. Mme Burle was sitting up before a meager fire of vine stocks, while her little grandson Charles pored over his lessons by the pale light of a lamp. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3324.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3324.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3324.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3324.mobi Democracy Henry Adams http://feedbooks.com/book/4379 en 1880 Novels Politics First published anonymously, March 1880, and soon in various unauthorized editions. It wasn't until the 1925 edition that Adams was listed as author. Henry Adams remarked (ironically as usual), "The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life."—it was very popular, as readers tried to guess who the author was and who the characters really were. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/4379.png http://feedbooks.com/book/4379.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/4379.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/4379.mobi Dr. Heidenhoff's Process Edward Bellamy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/823 en 1880 Novels Science Fiction Dr. Heidenhoff has the perfect solution for unwanted memories. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/823.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/823.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/823.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/823.mobi Nana Emile Zola http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3314 en 1880 Novels Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series, which was to tell "The Natural and Social History of a Family under the Second Empire." The novel was an immediate success. Le Voltaire, the French newspaper that was to publish it in installments from October 1879 on, had launched a gigantic advertising campaign, raising the curiosity of the reading public to a fever pitch. When Charpentier finally published Nana in book form in February 1880, the first edition of 55,000 copies was sold out in one day. Flaubert and Edmond de Goncourt were full of praise for Nana. On the other hand, a part of the non-reading public, spurred on by some critics, reacted to the book with outrage. While the novel is held up as a fine example of writing, it is not especially true to Zola's touted naturalist philosophy; instead, it is one of the most symbolically complex of his novels, setting it apart from the earthy "realism" of L'Assommoir or the more brutal "realism" of La Terre (1887). However, it was a great deal more authentic than most contemporary novels about the demimonde. Nana is especially noted for the crowd scenes, of which there are many, in which Zola proves himself a master of capturing the incredible variety of people. Whereas in his other novels -- notably Germinal (1885) -- he gives the reader an amazingly complete picture of surroundings and the lives of characters, from the first scene we are to understand that this novel treads new ground. Flaubert summed up the novel in one perfect sentence: Nana tourne au mythe, sans cesser d'être réelle. (Nana turns into myth, without ceasing to be real.) From Wikipedia http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3314.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3314.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3314.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3314.mobi The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://www.feedbooks.com/book/180 urn:isbn:0486437914 en 1880 Novels Psychology The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner,[1] but he died less than four months after its publication. The book portrays a parricide in which each of the murdered man's sons share a varying degree of complicity. On a deeper level, it is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, reason, free will and modern Russia. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which is also the main setting of the novel. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/180.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/180.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/180.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/180.mobi The Death of Olivier Becaille Emile Zola http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3325 en 1880 Short Fiction It was on a Saturday, at six in the morning, that I died after a three days' illness. My wife was searching a trunk for some linen, and when she rose and turned she saw me rigid, with open eyes and silent pulses. She ran to me, fancying that I had fainted, touched my hands and bent over me. Then she suddenly grew alarmed, burst into tears and stammered: "My God, my God! He is dead!" http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3325.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3325.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3325.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3325.mobi The Duke's Children Anthony Trollope http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2086 urn:isbn:0192835386 en 1880 Novels http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2086.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2086.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2086.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2086.mobi The Miller's Daughter Emile Zola http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3323 en 1880 Short Fiction At dawn a clamor of voices shook the mill. Pere Merlier opened the door of Francoise's chamber. She went down into the courtyard, pale and very calm. But there she could not repress a shiver as she saw the corpse of a Prussian soldier stretched out on a cloak beside the well. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3323.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3323.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3323.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3323.mobi