The Book of Five Rings Musashi Miyamoto http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3953 urn:isbn:1590302486 en 1644 Non-Fiction Philosophy Essay Biography Miyamoto Musashi's Go Rin no Sho or the book of five rings, is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra. The five "books" refer to the idea that there are different elements of battle, just as there are different physical elements in life, as described by Buddhism, Shinto, and other Eastern religions. Through the book Musashi defends his thesis: a man who conquers himself is ready to take it on on the world, should need arise. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3953.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3953.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3953.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3953.mobi Walden Henry David Thoreau http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3914 urn:isbn:0807014257 en 1854 Non-Fiction Philosophy Essay Biography Politics Walden (also known as Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's life for two years and two months in second-growth forest around the shores of Walden Pond, not far from his friends and family in Concord, Massachusetts. Walden was written so that the stay appears to be a year, with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau called it an experiment in simple living. Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, and manual for self reliance. (from Wikipedia) http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3914.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3914.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3914.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3914.mobi The Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau http://www.feedbooks.com/book/349 urn:isbn:0192822756 en 1768 Non-Fiction Biography In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the world of modern civilization. In trying to explain who he was and how he came to be the object of others' admiration and abuse, Rousseau analyses with unique insight the relationship between an elusive but essential inner self and the variety of social identities he was led to adopt. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/349.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/349.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/349.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/349.mobi The Road Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3248 en 1907 Non-Fiction Biography Travel Tales of London's days as a hobo. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3248.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3248.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3248.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3248.mobi Youth Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1510 urn:isbn:0375759441 en 1856 Non-Fiction Biography This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1510.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1510.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1510.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1510.mobi A Personal Record Joseph Conrad http://www.feedbooks.com/book/731 urn:isbn:0140189661 en 1912 Non-Fiction Biography This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/731.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/731.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/731.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/731.mobi The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3609 urn:isbn:055321375X en 1892 Short Fiction Horror Biography "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health. The story is written in the first person as a series of journal entries. The narrator is a woman whose husband — a physician — has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working and has to hide her journal entries from him so that she can recuperate from what he has diagnosed as a "temporary nervous depression — a slight hysterical tendency;" a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house. The story illustrates the effect of confinement on the narrator's mental health, and her descent into psychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed by the pattern and color of the room's wallpaper. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3609.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3609.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3609.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3609.mobi Childhood Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1508 urn:isbn:0375759441 en 1852 Non-Fiction Biography This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1508.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1508.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1508.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1508.mobi Boyhood Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1509 urn:isbn:0375759441 en 1854 Non-Fiction Biography This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1509.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1509.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1509.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1509.mobi Hawthorne Henry James http://www.feedbooks.com/book/412 en 1879 Non-Fiction Biography This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/412.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/412.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/412.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/412.mobi The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Olaudah Equiano http://www.feedbooks.com/book/346 urn:isbn:0375761152 en 1789 Non-Fiction Biography http://www.feedbooks.com/book/346.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/346.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/346.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/346.mobi Fanny Herself Edna Ferber http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3455 en 1917 Novels Biography This intensely personal chronicle of a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town is the most autobiographical of Pulitzer Prize-winning Ferber’s novels, full of fine, full-blown, and fascinating characters. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3455.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3455.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3455.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3455.mobi Biographical Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1590 en 1842 Biography http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1590.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1590.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1590.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1590.mobi The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651 urn:isbn:1585790192 en 1895 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Biography Grahame’s reminiscences are notable for their conception “of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult ‘Olympians’ who have wholly forgotten how it feels to be young”--a theme later explored by J. M. Barrie and other authors. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.mobi Cross Creek Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2127 urn:isbn:0684818795 en 1942 Novels Biography This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2127.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2127.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2127.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2127.mobi Samuel Johnson Leslie Stephens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/433 urn:isbn:1419146017 en 1878 Non-Fiction Biography http://www.feedbooks.com/book/433.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/433.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/433.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/433.mobi Roughing It Mark Twain http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4307 en 1872 Biography Humor/Satire Travel Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861–1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother's diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the novel. Roughing It illustrates many of Twain's early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real-estate speculation, and his beginnings as a writer. In this memoir, readers can see examples of Twain's rough-hewn humor, which would become a staple of his writing in his later books, such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. (Source: Wikipedia) This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4307.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4307.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4307.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4307.mobi The Diary of a U-boat Commander Sir William Stephen Richard King-Hall http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4208 en 1918 Biography War The diary of a World War One U-Boat commander. As well as being a fascinating glimpse of life on the German U-boats during the intense submarine blockade, this also reminds us there were humans involved - on both sides of the action - as we read too of the intimate thoughts and intense love of a man longing for his sweetheart. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4208.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4208.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4208.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4208.mobi Reed Anthony, Cowman Andy Adams http://www.feedbooks.com/book/910 urn:isbn:1406504092 en 1907 Non-Fiction Biography Western From the writer and genuine Western Trail cattle driver, responsible for some of the best and most realistic accounts of cowboy life in literature. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/910.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/910.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/910.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/910.mobi The American in Paris - Vol. I John Sanderson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3331 en 1838 Non-Fiction Biography (Two volumes.) Sketches of Paris and French people : In Familiar Letters to His Friends. An account of the teacher and writer's experiences and perceptions of France, where he had traveled for health reasons in 1835. Noted for its astute and striking descriptions, it became popular in the United States, is published in London as The American in Paris (1838), and would be later translated into French by Jules Janin. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3331.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3331.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3331.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3331.mobi