Moby-Dick Herman Melville http://www.feedbooks.com/book/54 urn:isbn:0553213113 en 1851 Novels Adventure Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby-Dick, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaling ships know of Moby-Dick, and fewer yet have encountered him. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to exact revenge. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/54.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/54.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/54.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/54.mobi Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) Lewis Carroll http://www.feedbooks.com/book/23 urn:isbn:0688120490 en 1871 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Although it makes no reference to the events in the earlier book, the themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May, on Alice's birthday (May 4), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on November 4 (the day before Guy Fawkes Night), uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/23.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/23.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/23.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/23.mobi Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll http://www.feedbooks.com/book/22 urn:isbn:0785824464 en 1897 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and enemies), and to the lessons that British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the most characteristic examples of the genre of literary nonsense, and its narrative course and structure has been enormously influential, mainly in the fantasy genre. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/22.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/22.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/22.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/22.mobi Grimm's Fairy Tales Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm Wilhem Karl Grimm http://www.feedbooks.com/book/187 urn:isbn:0517229250 en 1812 Young Readers Collections Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimms' Fairy Tales (German: Grimms Märchen). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/187.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/187.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/187.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/187.mobi Ulysses James Joyce http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1232 urn:isbn:0141182806 en 1922 Novels Sexuality Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. It is considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature. Ulysses chronicles the passage through Dublin by its main character, Leopold Bloom, during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title alludes to the hero of Homer's Odyssey (Latinised into Ulysses), and there are many parallels, both implicit and explicit, between the two works (e.g., the correspondences between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus). This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1232.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1232.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1232.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1232.mobi Paradise Lost John Milton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/174 urn:isbn:0393924289 en 1667 Poetry Religion Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books; a second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. The poem concerns the Judeo-Christian story of the Fall of Man; the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is "justify the ways of God to men" and elucidate the conflict between God's eternal foresight and free will. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/174.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/174.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/174.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/174.mobi Utopia Thomas More http://www.feedbooks.com/book/198 urn:isbn:0393961451 en 1515 Non-Fiction Philosophy De Optimo Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More. The book, written in Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. The name of the place is derived from the Greek words οὐ u ("not") and τόπος tópos ("place"), with the topographical suffix -εία eía, hence Οὐτοπεία outopeía (Latinized as Utopia), “no-place land.” It also contains a pun, however, because “Utopia” could also be the Latinization of Εὐτοπεία eutopeía, “good-place land,” which uses the Greek prefix ευ eu, “good,” instead of οὐ. One interpretation holds that this suggests that while Utopia might be some sort of perfected society, it is ultimately unreachable. Despite modern connotations of the word "utopia," it is widely accepted that the society More describes in this work was not actually his own "perfect society." Rather he wished to use the contrast between the imaginary land's unusual political ideas and the chaotic politics of his own day as a platform from which to discuss social issues in Europe. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/198.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/198.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/198.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/198.mobi Candide Voltaire http://www.feedbooks.com/book/709 urn:isbn:0553211668 en 1759 Novels Philosophy Candide, ou l'Optimisme (1759) is a French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, English translations of which have been titled Candide: Or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: Or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: Or, Optimism (1947). The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his tutor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this existence, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not outright rejecting optimism, advocating an enigmatic precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds". http://www.feedbooks.com/book/709.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/709.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/709.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/709.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 Travels Through Love and Time Christine Hall Volkoff http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8032 en 2009 This is a novella in three parts, about a woman's quest of true love through different parts of her life. The story is very romantic and somewhat erotic, though not explicit. In the first part, she is fourteen years old and relief from her loneliness will come from an unlikely source... In the second part, she is middle aged, lesbian identified and struggling with many insecurities after a break up. Will she find what she is looking for, in that cafe in Paris? In the third part, she is more mature, and finds herself infatuated with a young woman 30 years her junior. Will she finally find some meaning in her love life? The style of the book is instrospective, and it is really a celebration of all the good things that can be enjoyed by us all living beings. My wish is that it will generate in the reader more lust for life than plain old lust. coming of age paris romantic bisexual lesbian http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8032.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8032.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8032.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/8032.mobi The Sweet Cheat Gone (The Fugitive) Marcel Proust http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1452 urn:isbn:0679424776 en 1930 Novels Romance This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1452.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1452.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1452.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1452.mobi Time Regained Marcel Proust http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1453 urn:isbn:0375753125 en 1931 Novels Romance This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1453.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1453.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1453.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1453.mobi Within A Budding Grove Marcel Proust http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1448 urn:isbn:0375752196 en 1924 Novels Romance This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1448.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1448.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1448.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1448.mobi The Red and the Black Stendhal http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1356 urn:isbn:0812972074 en 1830 Novels Romance The Red and the Black, Stendhal’s masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorel’s quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters along the way, are delineated with an unprecedented psychological depth and realism. At the same time, Stendhal weaves together the social life and fraught political intrigues of post–Napoleonic France, bringing that world to unforgettable, full-color life. His portrait of Julien and early-nineteenth-century France remains an unsurpassed creation, one that brilliantly anticipates modern literature. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1356.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1356.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1356.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1356.mobi Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2936 urn:isbn:0486275574 en 1597 Romance Plays Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding households. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal "young lovers". (From Wikipedia) http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2936.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2936.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2936.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2936.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 Nightwing #39 Batkid http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7921 en 2009 Nightwing: Living Nightmare There's a villain loose in Gotham, and it's up to Batman and Robin to stop him. They may be in for more than they've bargained for, however, because the tables can be turned in the blink of an eye! Comics robin DC2 Scarecrow Batman Nightwing http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7921.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7921.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7921.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7921.mobi Biblical Mysteries Lonely Soul http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1950 en 2008 In this book you can explore many puzzling biblical mysteries, including: -- Does the Devil really exist? -- Was Mary Magdalene secretly married to Jesus? -- Where is Hell located? -- What was in the Lost Gospels? -- Who was the mysterious Beloved Disciple? -- Is there a divine language? -- Can people be possessed by demons? -- Why did Jesus call himself the Son of Man? -- And many more ... history religion bible Christian Christianity http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1950.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1950.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1950.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1950.mobi From Jump Shauna Barbosa http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7620 en 2009 A collection of short stories by Shauna Barbosa. Heavy in content. Realism. Words about family love and sex and heartbreak and breakdowns and confronting loneliness and intense love affairs. fiction health love mental from barbosa shauna maria jump letsjusteatcheese http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7620.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7620.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7620.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7620.mobi False North Bernadette Erikka Vanburen http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7627 en 2009 Experimental, narrative short story. short experimental Story narrative http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7627.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7627.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7627.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7627.mobi For Whom The Bill Calls Holden Wilde http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7752 en 2009 1,000 words of fiction on current state of dating dining etiquette in Manhattan from a single gent Single dating manhattan dining http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7752.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7752.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7752.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7752.mobi Let Go Sweet Summers http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7882 en 2009 When you have no longer the option of holding on, you let go. Young Adult romance http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7882.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7882.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7882.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7882.mobi Uncovered Passion Christopher Golliday & Melissa Golliday http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5892 en 2009 Sasha Verochka is an FSB agent assigned to her first mission. Her mission? Uncovering the motives for why a handsome, former Marine is in Moscow. Being telepathic, she never thought it would be so hard to reveal the truth about Garrick Caldwell. But then again, she'd never experienced desire like this. Now time is running out as her superiors want answers she can't make herself find. For in doing so, she just might lose her one chance at passion. new york romance Russia City paranormal shape shifter spies http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5892.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5892.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5892.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5892.mobi Uncollected Stories Small Stories http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7283 en 2009 The second collection from the popular Feedbooks download author. 50 microfictions - sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing, always perfect for mobile reading. funny fiction weird short story surreal microfiction flash fiction very short story mobile reading quirky http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7283.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7283.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7283.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7283.mobi Black Silk Jan Gordon http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6555 en 2009 Victoria Hudson is 29 and lives in the kind of small town where everyone knows everyone else. She has two great loves in her life -- her cat, Mister, and reading books from her used bookstore. She doesn't see her life changing much in the future. She's stuck. Until one night when she's saved from probable danger by a mysterious stranger. ****** Steven Colburn has moved around quite a bit during his lifetime, never really finding a place where he felt he could be comfortable. Until he buys an old homestead, and fate steps in to forever change his life and that of one of the town’s quiet entrepreneurs. **** A light romance with a paranormal twist. romance paranormal romance http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6555.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6555.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6555.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/6555.mobi The Coral Island Robert Michael Ballantyne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951 en 1857 Novels Young Readers Adventure Three boys, fifteen-year-old Ralph Rover (the narrator), eighteen-year-old Jack Martin and fourteen-year-old Peterkin Gay, are the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island. At first their life on the island is idyllic; food, in the shape of fruits, fish and wild pigs, is plentiful, and using their only possessions; a broken telescope, an iron-bound oar and a small axe, they fashion a shelter and even construct a small boat. Their first contact with other people comes after several months when they observe two large outrigger canoes land on the beach. The two groups are engaged in battle and the three boys intervene to successfully defeat the attacking party, earning the gratitude of the chief Tararo. The Polynesians leave and the three boys are alone once more. Then more unwelcome visitors arrive in the shape of pirates, who make a living trading, or stealing, sandalwood. The three boys conceal themselves in a hidden cave, but Ralph is captured when he sets out to see if the pirates have left, and is taken aboard the pirate schooner. Ralph strikes up an unexpected friendship with one of the pirates, "Bloody Bill", and when they call at an island to trade for more wood he meets Tararo again. On the island he sees all facets of island life, including the popular sport of surfing, as well as the practice of infanticide and cannibalism. Rising tension leads to an attack by the inhabitants on the pirates, leaving only Ralph alive and Bloody Bill mortally wounded. However they manage to make their escape in the schooner. After Bill dies, making a death-bed repentance for his evil life, Ralph manages to sail back to the Coral Island to be re-united with his friends. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3951.mobi The Goodbye Jan Gordon http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7080 en 2009 A story of love and life. A story of war and loss. A story of longing and need. This short story is made up of sixteen drabbles. A drabble is a story written in exactly one hundred words, not including the title, and cannot be one word more or one less than one hundred. Each drabble within this book can be read on its own, but when read in conjunction with the other fifteen, will become part of a longer story. There is romance, there is angst, and there is violence. romance death angst Drabble http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7080.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7080.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7080.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7080.mobi North and South Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3190 urn:isbn:1853260932 en 1855 Novels Romance North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indicates a major theme of the book: the contrast between the way of life in the industrial north of England and the wealthier south, although it was only under pressure from her publishers that Gaskell changed the title from its original, Margaret Hale. The book is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The heroine of the story, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a Nonconformist minister who moves to the fictional industrial town of Milton after leaving the Church of England. The town is modeled after Manchester, where Gaskell lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister. Gaskell herself worked among the poor and knew at first hand the misery of the industrial areas. The change of lifestyle shocks Margaret, who sympathizes deeply with the poverty of the workers and comes into conflict with John Thornton, the owner of a local mill, also a friend of her father. After an encounter with a group of strikers, in which Margaret attempts to protect Thornton from the violence, he proposes to her, telling her that he is in love with her; she rejects his proposal of marriage, mainly because she sees it as if it were out of obligation for what she had done. Later, he sees her with her fugitive brother, whom he mistakes for another suitor, and this creates further unresolved conflict. Margaret, once she believes she has lost his affection, begins to see him in another light, and eventually they are reunited. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3190.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3190.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3190.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3190.mobi