A Christmas Sermon Robert Louis Stevenson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3507 en 1900 Essay Religion By the time this paper appears, I shall have been talking for twelve months; and it is thought I should take my leave in a formal and seasonable manner. Valedictory eloquence is rare, and death-bed sayings have not often hit the mark of the occasion. Charles Second, wit and sceptic, a man whose life had been one long lesson in human incredulity, an easy-going comrade, a manoeuvring king—remembered and embodied all his wit and scepticism along with more than his usual good humour in the famous "I am afraid, gentlemen, I am an unconscionable time a-dying." http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3507.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3507.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3507.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3507.mobi Black Heart and White Heart Henry Rider Haggard http://www.feedbooks.com/book/967 en 1900 Short Fiction Adventure This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/967.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/967.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/967.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/967.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 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 Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4361 en 1900 Novels Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4361.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4361.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4361.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4361.mobi Tales of Space and Time H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3469 en 1900 Short Fiction Science Fiction Collections A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3469.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3469.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3469.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3469.mobi The Circular Study Anna Katharine Green http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3733 urn:isbn:1406974064 en 1900 Novels Crime/Mystery Excerpt: "Mr. Gryce was melancholy. He had attained that period in life when the spirits flag and enthusiasm needs a constant spur, and of late there had been a lack of special excitement, and he felt dull and superannuated. He was even contemplating resigning his position on the force and retiring to the little farm he had bought for himself in Westchester; and this in itself did not tend to cheerfulness, for he was one to whom action was a necessity and the exercise of his mental faculties more inspiring than any possible advantage which might accrue to him from their use." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3733.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3733.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3733.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3733.mobi The Filibusters Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3329 en 1900 Novels Adventure This story deals with the participants in an expedition that successfully captures the presidency of a Central American republic. It is very exciting, the incidents being fresh and daring with not too much reliance placed on coincidence. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3329.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3329.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3329.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3329.mobi The Half-Hearted John Buchan http://www.feedbooks.com/book/950 urn:isbn:1600961460 en 1900 Novels Romance This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/950.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/950.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/950.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/950.mobi The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/892 urn:isbn:1880418096 en 1900 Novels Science Fiction Fantasy Adventure A classic "lost race" story, with all of the required elements: a seductive empress, a straight-arrow hero, battles, escapes, sorcery, and earth-shattering cataclysms! Eminently readable and very entertaining, without any profundity to distract a fan of Haggard, Aubrey, or Janvier-style fantasy literature. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/892.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/892.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/892.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/892.mobi The Moon Metal Garrett Putman Serviss http://www.feedbooks.com/book/872 urn:isbn:1434696413 en 1900 Novels Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/872.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/872.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/872.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/872.mobi The Son of the Wolf Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2849 urn:isbn:019283486X en 1900 Short Fiction Adventure Collections Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. This, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon. The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the qualities of exceptional women and on the relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2849.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2849.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2849.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2849.mobi The Vampire Maid Hume Nisbet http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1326 en 1900 Short Fiction Horror Gothic This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1326.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1326.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1326.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1326.mobi The Wallet of Kai Lung Ernest Bramah Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3643 urn:isbn:1438504497 en 1900 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The Wallet of Kai Lung is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. It was first published in hardcover in London by Grant Richards in 1900, and there have been numerous editions since. Its initial tale, The Transmutation of Ling, was also issued by the same publisher as a separate chapbook in 1911. The collection's importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by the anthologization of two of its tales in the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, edited by Lin Carter and published by Ballantine Books; "The Vision of Yin" in Discoveries in Fantasy (March, 1972), and "The Transmutation of Ling" in Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II (March, 1973). Although the collection is presented in the fashion of a novel, with each of its component stories designated chapters, there is no overall plot aside from each of the first eight tales being presented as narratives told by Kai Lung at various points in his itinerant career. The final tale is represented as being from a manuscript left by its own separate first-person narrator, Kin Yen. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3643.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3643.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3643.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3643.mobi The Watcher by the Threshold John Buchan http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1200 en 1900 Short Fiction Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1200.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1200.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1200.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1200.mobi The Wild Knight and Other Poems Gilbert Keith Chesterton http://feedbooks.com/book/3702 urn:isbn:1406590991 en 1900 Poetry Collections This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3702.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3702.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3702.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3702.mobi The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Lyman Frank Baum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197 urn:isbn:0688166776 en 1900 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Dorothy is a young girl who lives on a Kansas farm with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and little dog Toto. One day the farmhouse, with Dorothy inside, is caught up in a tornado and deposited in a field in the country of the Munchkins. The falling house kills the Wicked Witch of the East. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/197.mobi Three Men on the Bummel Jerome Klapka Jerome http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2181 en 1900 Novels Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2181.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2181.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2181.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2181.mobi Touchstone Edith Wharton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/435 urn:isbn:1419185411 en 1900 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/435.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/435.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/435.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/435.mobi