Two Plus Two Makes Crazy Walter J. Sheldon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3933 en 1954 Short Fiction Science Fiction Walt Sheldon is bitter-bright in this imaginative short satire of Man's sell-out by a group of staunch believers in the infallibility of numbers. The Computer could do no wrong. Then it was asked a simple little question by a simple little man. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3933.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3933.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3933.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3933.mobi The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3937 urn:isbn:048646136X en 1841 Novels History Adventure War The Deerslayer, or The First Warpath (1841) was the last of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking tales to be written. Its 1740-1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leatherstocking tales, Natty Bumppo. The novel's setting on Otsego Lake in central, upstate New York, is the same as that of The Pioneers, the first of the Leatherstocking tales to be published (1823). The Deerslayer is considered to be the prequel to the rest of the Leatherstocking tales. Fenimore Cooper begins his work by relating the astonishing advance of civilization in New York State, which is the setting of four of his five Leatherstocking tales. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3937.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3937.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3937.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3937.mobi The Pioneers James Fenimore Cooper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3939 urn:isbn:0451530470 en 1823 Novels History Adventure War The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period of time it covers makes it the fourth chronologically. The story takes place on the rapidly advancing frontier of New York State and features a middle-aged Leatherstocking (Natty Bumppo), Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton, whose life parallels that of the author's father Judge William Cooper, and Elizabeth Temple (the author's sister Susan Cooper), of Cooperstown. The story begins with an argument between the Judge and the Leatherstocking over who killed a buck, and as Cooper reviews many of the changes to New York's Lake Otsego, questions of environmental stewardship, conservation, and use prevail. The plot develops as the Leatherstocking and Chingachgook begin to compete with the Temples for the loyalties of a mysterious young visitor, "Oliver Edwards," the "young hunter," who eventually marries Elizabeth. Chingachgook dies, exemplifying the vexed figure of the "dying Indian," and Natty vanishes into the sunset. For all its strange twists and turns, 'The Pioneers' may be considered one of the first ecological novels in the United States. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3939.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3939.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3939.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3939.mobi The Pathfinder James Fenimore Cooper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3938 urn:isbn:0140390715 en 1840 Novels History Adventure War The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1840. It is the fourth novel featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and is considered as forming the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3938.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3938.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3938.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3938.mobi The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3347 en 1826 Novels History Adventure War The Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826. It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time. Its narrative flaws were criticized from the start, and its length and elaborately formal prose style have reduced its appeal to later readers. Regardless, The Last of the Mohicans is widely read in American literature courses. This second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy is the best known. The Pathfinder, written 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel. Cooper named a principal character Uncas after the most famous of the Mohicans. The real Mohicans lived in the colony of Connecticut in the mid-seventeenth century, and not in the New York frontier a century later. Uncas was a Mohegan, not a Mohican, and Cooper's usage has helped to confuse the names of two tribes to the present day. When John Uncas, his last surviving male descendant died in 1842, the Newark Daily Advertiser wrote "Last of the Mohegans Gone" lamenting the extinction of the tribe. The writer was not aware that Mohegans still existed then and to the present day. The story takes place in 1757 during the Seven Years' War (known in America as the French and Indian War), when France and the United Kingdom battled for control of the American and Canadian colonies. During this war, the French often allied themselves with Native American tribes in order to gain an advantage over the British, with unpredictable and often tragic results. Source: Wikipedia http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3347.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3347.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3347.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3347.mobi The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3940 urn:isbn:014039026X en 1827 Novels History Adventure War The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, who is simply known as "the trapper" in it. Chronologically The Prairie is the fifth and final installment of the Leatherstocking Tales. It depicts Natty in the final year of his life still proving helpful to people in distress on the American frontier. Continuity with The Last of the Mohicans is indicated by the appearance of the grandson of Duncan and Alice Heyward of The Last of the Mohicans and the noble Pawnee chief Hard Heart, whose name is English for the French nickname for the Delaware, le Coeur-dur. Natty is drawn to Hard Heart as a noble warrior in the likeness of his dear friend Uncas, "the last of the Mohicans." http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3940.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3940.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3940.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3940.mobi Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3893 urn:isbn:1587157039 en 1894 Novels Adventure Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Detective, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3893.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3893.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3893.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3893.mobi Tom Sawyer, Detective Mark Twain http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3894 urn:isbn:1441497102 en 1896 Novels Crime/Mystery Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like the two preceding novels, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3894.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3894.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3894.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3894.mobi Essays (First Series) Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3882 en 1841 Essay Collections A collections of essays: History, Self-reliance, Compensation, Spiritual laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The over-soul, Circles, Intellect & Art. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3882.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3882.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3882.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3882.mobi Essays (Second Series) Ralph Waldo Emerson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3884 en 1844 Essay Collections A collection of essays: The poet, Experience, Character, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Politics, Nominalist and realist & New England reformers. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3884.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3884.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3884.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3884.mobi The Evil Shepherd Edward Phillips Oppenheim http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3880 urn:isbn:1434662861 en 1922 Novels Crime/Mystery Thriller A novel of English life of a melodramatic character, so fascinating and so stirring that the most hardened reader can hardly fail to receive a series of thrills. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3880.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3880.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3880.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3880.mobi A Stable for Nightmares Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2834 urn:isbn:B001F0RRKK en 1896 Short Fiction Horror Collections Ghost Stories http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2834.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2834.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2834.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2834.mobi The Double Four Edward Phillips Oppenheim http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3876 en 1911 Novels Crime/Mystery Thriller A novel about secret societies in New York. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3876.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3876.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3876.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3876.mobi The Great Impersonation Edward Phillips Oppenheim http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3877 urn:isbn:1920265643 en 1920 Novels Crime/Mystery Romance Adventure Excerpt: The trouble from which great events were to come began when Everard Dominey, who had been fighting his way through the scrub for the last three quarters of an hour towards those thin, spiral wisps of smoke, urged his pony to a last despairing effort and came crashing through the great oleander shrub to pitch forward on his head in the little clearing. It developed the next morning, when he found himself for the first time for many months on the truckle bed, between linen sheets, with a cool, bamboo-twisted roof between him and the relentless sun. He raised himself a little in the bed. "Where the mischief am I?" he demanded. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3877.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3877.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3877.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3877.mobi The Zeppelin's Passenger Edward Phillips Oppenheim http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3870 urn:isbn:0554360225 en 1918 Novels Crime/Mystery War Excerpt: "Never heard a sound," the younger of the afternoon callers admitted, getting rid of his empty cup and leaning forward in his low chair. "No more tea, thank you, Miss Fairclough. Done splendidly, thanks. No, I went to bed last night soon after eleven—the Colonel had been route marching us all off our legs—and I never awoke until reveille this morning. Sleep of the just, and all that sort of thing, but a jolly sell, all the same! You hear anything of it, sir?" he asked, turning to his companion, who was seated a few feet away. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3870.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3870.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3870.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3870.mobi The Vanished Messenger Edward Phillips Oppenheim http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3862 urn:isbn:0497962608 en 1914 Novels Crime/Mystery Excerpt: There were very few people upon Platform Number Twenty-one of Liverpool Street Station at a quarter to nine on the evening of April 2—possibly because the platform in question is one of the most remote and least used in the great terminus. The station-master, however, was there himself, with an inspector in attendance. A dark, thick-set man, wearing a long travelling ulster and a Homburg hat, and carrying in his hand a brown leather dressing-case, across which was painted in black letters the name MR. JOHN P. DUNSTER, was standing a few yards away, smoking a long cigar, and, to all appearance absorbed in studying the advertisements which decorated the grimy wall on the other side of the single track. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3862.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3862.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3862.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3862.mobi