http://www.feedbooks.com/list/834 Books I have downloaded from Feedbooks and read on my phone. Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2777 urn:isbn:1406509884 en 1856 Short Fiction The narrator, an elderly lawyer who has a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, title deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known. The narrator already employs two scriveners, Nippers and Turkey. Nippers suffers from chronic indigestion, and Turkey is a drunk, but the office survives because in the mornings Turkey is sober even though Nippers is irritable, and in the afternoon Nippers has calmed down even though Turkey is drunk. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2777.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2777.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2777.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2777.mobi Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Lewis Wallace http://www.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://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3540.mobi His Family Ernest Poole http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2088 urn:isbn:1594627355 en 1917 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2088.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2088.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2088.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2088.mobi Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë http://www.feedbooks.com/book/144 urn:isbn:1551111802 en 1847 Novels Romance Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847. Its representation of the underside of domestic life and the hypocrisy behind religious enthusiasm drew both praise and bitter criticism, while Charlotte Brontë's striking expose of poor living conditions for children in charity schools as well as her poignant portrayal of the limitations faced by women who worked as governesses sparked great controversy and social debate. Jane Eyre, Brontë's best-known novel, remains an extraordinary coming-of-age narrative, and one of the great classics of literature. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/144.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/144.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/144.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/144.mobi Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2052 urn:isbn:0451530179 en 1915 Novels From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2052.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2052.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2052.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2052.mobi One of Ours Willa Cather http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2094 urn:isbn:0679737448 en 1923 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2094.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2094.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2094.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2094.mobi Sanin Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2177 urn:isbn:0801485592 en 1907 Novels The hero of Artsybashev's novel exhibits a set of new values to be contrasted with the morality of the older Russian intelligentsia. Sanin is an attractive, clever, powerful, life-loving man who is, at the same time, an amoral and carnal animal, bored both by politics and by religion. During the novel he lusts after his own sister, but defends her when she is betrayed by an arrogant officer; he deflowers an innocent-but-willing virgin; and encourages a Jewish friend to end his self-doubts by committing suicide. Sanin's extreme individualism greatly appealed to young people in Russia during the twilight years of the Romanov regime. "Saninism" was marked by sensualism, self-gratification, and self-destruction--and gained in credibility in an atmosphere of moral and spiritual despondency. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2177.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2177.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2177.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2177.mobi The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/93 urn:isbn:0375753206 en 1920 Novels The Age of Innocence centers on one society couple's impending marriage and the introduction of a scandalous woman whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and mores of turn of the century New York society, it never devolves into an outright condemnation of the institution. In fact, Wharton considered this novel an "apology" for the earlier, more brutal and critical, "The House of Mirth". Not to be overlooked is the author's attention to detailing the charms and customs of this caste. The novel is lauded for its accurate portrayal of how the nineteenth-century East Coast American upper class lived and this combined with the social tragedy earned Wharton a Pulitzer - the first Pulitzer awarded to a woman. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/93.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/93.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/93.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/93.mobi The Awakening & Other Short Stories Kate Chopin http://www.feedbooks.com/book/342 urn:isbn:0679783334 en 1899 Short Fiction Sexuality The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel. As Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin "was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it." http://www.feedbooks.com/book/342.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/342.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/342.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/342.mobi The Magnificent Ambersons Newton Booth Tarkington http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2090 urn:isbn:1600968023 en 1918 Novels The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth trilogy, which included The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). In 1942 Orson Welles directed a film version, also titled The Magnificent Ambersons. The novel and trilogy traces the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in a fictional Mid-Western town, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America. The decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of industrial tycoons and other new-money families, which did not derive power from family names but by "doing things". As George Amberson's friend (name unspecified) says, "don't you think being things is 'rahthuh bettuh' than doing things?" "The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," said Van Wyck Brooks. "[It is] a typical story of an American family and town—the great family that locally ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city. This novel no doubt was a permanent page in the social history of the United States, so admirably conceived and written was the tale of the Ambersons, their house, their fate and the growth of the community in which they were submerged in the end." Even though the story is set in a fictitious city, it was inspired by Tarkington's hometown of Indianapolis and the neighborhood he once lived in, Woodruff Place. Source: Wikipedia This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2090.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2090.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2090.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2090.mobi The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2043 urn:isbn:0486446026 en 1919 Novels An uncompromising and self-destructive deserts his wife, family, business, and civilization for his art. Shedding harsh light on an artist's ego, Maugham reveals the lengths to which one man will go to focus on his art. Written in 1919, this unforgettable story is timeless in its appeal. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2043.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2043.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2043.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2043.mobi