Father Goriot Honoré de Balzac http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1631 urn:isbn:039397166X en 1834 Novels http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1631.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1631.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1631.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1631.mobi The Pat Hobby Stories Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1168 urn:isbn:0684804425 en 1940 Short Fiction Collections The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. "This was not art" Pat Hobby often said, "this was an industry" where whom "you sat with at lunch was more important than what you dictated in your office." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1168.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1168.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1168.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1168.mobi The Stretton Street Affair William Le Queux http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3819 en 1922 Novels Crime/Mystery Mr. Le Queux breaks all records for speed and thrills. And he tells you, too, about orosin, that newly discovered poison, a drop of which, on cigar or cigarette, renders the smoker unconscious. A gripping detective and mystery story. Every page presents a baffling situation, and all lead to the most unusual climax of the times. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3819.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3819.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3819.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3819.mobi Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1231 urn:isbn:0156628708 en 1925 Novels Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards and back in time, and in and out of the characters' minds, to construct a complete image of Clarissa's life and of the inter-war social structure. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1231.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1231.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1231.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1231.mobi The Risk Profession Donald Edwin Westlake http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3288 en 1961 Short Fiction Science Fiction The men who did dangerous work had a special kind of insurance policy. But when somebody wanted to collect on that policy, the claims investigator suddenly became a member of ... THE RISK PROFESSION Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3288.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3288.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3288.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3288.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 New Grub Street George Gissing http://www.feedbooks.com/book/68 urn:isbn:0192836587 en 1891 Novels The story is about the literary world of late-Victorian London that Gissing inhabited, and its title, New Grub Street, alludes to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synonymous with the "hack writing" that pervades Gissing's novel; Grub Street itself was no longer extant when Gissing was writing. The novel contrasts Edwin Reardon, a congenitally uncommercial but talented writer, against Jasper Milvain, a selfish and unscrupulous hack who rejects artistic endeavour for material gain. Milvain's trite, manipulative work ascends while Reardon's work--and his life--spiral downward. The novel suggests that the literary world rewards materialistic self-promotion more than serious artistic sensibility. Gissing's biography--a respected writer who struggled for a long time to obtain commercial success--strongly suggests the novel is autobiographical, the author's stand-in being (of course) Reardon. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/68.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/68.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/68.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/68.mobi The Chronicles of Clovis Saki http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3401 en 1911 Short Fiction Collections Humor/Satire One of Saki's best-known works. A collection of satirical short stories featuring Clovis. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3401.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3401.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3401.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3401.mobi The Bishop and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3810 urn:isbn:1438508336 en 1919 Short Fiction Collections A collection of various of Anton Chekhov's short stories including: THE BISHOP, THE LETTER, EASTER EVE, A NIGHTMARE, THE MURDER, UPROOTED, and THE STEPPE. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3810.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3810.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3810.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3810.mobi The Metaphysical Poets Thomas Stearns Eliot http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1304 en 1921 Poetry Essay This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1304.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1304.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1304.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1304.mobi The Cathedral Joris-Karl Huysmans http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1241 urn:isbn:1406813796 en 1898 Novels http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1241.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1241.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1241.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1241.mobi Against the Grain Joris-Karl Huysmans http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1240 urn:isbn:0486221903 en 1884 Novels Because of his extreme sensitivity to the absurd and grotesque in human affairs, the protagonist of this masterpiece of decadence has estranged himself from society and savors the most bizarre aspects of human existence in his quest for novelty. This landmark novel is filled with weird images and biting wit. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1240.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1240.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1240.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1240.mobi The Queen of Spades Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin http://www.feedbooks.com/book/76 urn:isbn:0192839543 en 1834 Short Fiction Pushkin's story tells of the Russianized German card player, Hermann--an engineer in the army in Russia--who becomes obsessed with the secret of three consecutive winning cards after hearing a story about an old countess' winnings years prior. His obsession drives him to manipulate the countess' ward, Lizaveta Ivanovna, into letting him into their home. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/76.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/76.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/76.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/76.mobi Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Jerome Klapka Jerome http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2182 urn:isbn:1843911604 en 1886 Essay Collections Humor/Satire This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2182.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2182.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2182.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2182.mobi The Prophet Kahlil Gibran http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843 urn:isbn:0394404289 en 1923 Poetry The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2843.mobi Common Sense Thomas Paine http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2850 urn:isbn:0486296024 en 1776 Non-Fiction Essay Politics Enormously popular and widely read pamphlet, first published in January of 1776, clearly and persuasively argues for American separation from Great Britain and paves the way for the Declaration of Independence. This highly influential landmark document attacks the monarchy, cites the evils of government and combines idealism with practical economic concerns. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2850.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2850.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2850.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2850.mobi Fathers and Sons Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1922 urn:isbn:0192833928 en 1862 Novels When a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle's discomfort, by a strange friend "who doesn't acknowledge any authorities, who doesn't accept a single principle on faith." Turgenev's masterpiece of generational conflict shocked Russian society when it was published in 1862 and continues today to seem as fresh and outspoken as it did to those who first encountered its nihilistic hero. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1922.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1922.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1922.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1922.mobi Virgin Soil Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev http://www.feedbooks.com/book/351 urn:isbn:1592246559 en 1877 Novels VIRGIN SOIL by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) is his last and longest novel. In it he finally says everything yet unsaid on the subject of social change, idealism and yet futility of revolutions, serfs and peasants, and the upper classes. The hero, Nezhdanov -- the disillusioned young son of a nobleman -- and the Populist movement are young idealists working to bridge the gap between the common people and the nobility, and through them Turgenev works out his own troubled thoughts about social reform and tradition, vitality and stagnation. The ideas of gradual reform shown here are eventually to be supplanted by the extremism of the Russian Revolution -- but that is yet to come. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/351.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/351.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/351.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/351.mobi First Love Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2298 urn:isbn:0199540403 en 1860 Short Fiction Romance Vladimir Petrovich Voldemar, a 16-year-old, is staying in the country with his family and meets Zinaida Alexandrovna Zasyekina, a beautiful 21-year-old woman, staying with her mother, Princess Zasyekina, in a wing of the manor. This family, as with many of the Russian minor nobility with royal ties of that time, were only afforded a degree of respectability because of their titles; the Zasyekins, in the case of this story, are a very poor family. The young Vladimir falls irretrievably in love with Zinaida, who has a set of several other (socially more eligible) suitors whom he joins in their difficult and often fruitless search for the young lady's favour. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2298.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2298.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2298.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2298.mobi Siddhartha Hermann Hesse http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374 urn:isbn:0553208845 en 1922 Novels Philosophy Religion Siddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian boy called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, yet powerful and lyrical, style. It was first published in 1922, after Hesse had spent some time in India in the 1910s. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential during the 1960s. The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in the Sanskrit language, siddha (gotten) + artha (meaning or wealth). The two words together mean "one who has found meaning (of existence)" or "he who has attained his goals". The Buddha's name, before his renunciation, was Prince Siddhartha Gautama, later the Buddha. In this book, the Buddha is referred to as "Gotama". Source: Wikipedia This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3374.mobi The Longest Journey E. M. Forster http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2072 urn:isbn:0735100683 en 1907 Novels Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and congenitally lame young man, orphaned at the age of 15, escapes from the misery of suburban life and the bullying of public school to Cambridge, where, like Forster himself, he finds sympathetic friends, chief amongst them Ansell, a grocer's son. He has literary aspirations (his short stories, Arcadian pastoral fantasies, are remarkably like Forster's own), but is also attracted by Agnes Pembroke, the conventional but beautiful sister of a schoolmaster friend and protector, and by her handsome, athletic, ex-bully fiancé Gerald. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2072.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2072.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2072.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2072.mobi A Room with a View E. M. Forster http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2068 urn:isbn:0553213237 en 1908 Novels Romance This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson—who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist—Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2068.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2068.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2068.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2068.mobi Don Quixote Miguel Cervantes http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183 urn:isbn:B001AAWVRY en 1615 Novels Humor/Satire Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.mobi Symposium Plato http://www.feedbooks.com/book/714 urn:isbn:0226042758 en -400 Philosophy The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical dialogue written by Plato sometime after 385 BC. It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a group of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposium or a wine drinking gathering at the house of the tragedian Agathon at Athens. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/714.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/714.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/714.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/714.mobi Protagoras Plato http://www.feedbooks.com/book/990 urn:isbn:1573920622 en -400 Philosophy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/990.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/990.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/990.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/990.mobi Laches Plato http://www.feedbooks.com/book/986 urn:isbn:0674991834 en -400 Philosophy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/986.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/986.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/986.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/986.mobi The Country Doctor Franz Kafka http://www.feedbooks.com/book/192 en 1919 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/192.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/192.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/192.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/192.mobi In the Penal Colony Franz Kafka http://www.feedbooks.com/book/191 en 1914 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/191.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/191.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/191.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/191.mobi