The Golden Sayings of Epictetus Epictetus http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4282 en 1903 Philosophy Selections from the writings of the Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus, compiled and translated by Hastings Crossley. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4282.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4282.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4282.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4282.mobi 羅生門 (rashoumon) Ryūnosuke Akutagawa http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3923 ja 1915 Short Fiction Philosophy Psychology "Rashōmon" (Japanese: 羅生門) is a short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū. A man considering whether or not to become a thief meets a woman stealing hair from corpses. Their conversation explores the morality of theft. The story was first published in 1915 in Teikoku Bungaku. Despite its name, it provided no direct plot material for the Akira Kurosawa movie Rashōmon, which was based on Akutagawa's 1921 short story, In a Grove. 『羅生門』（らしょうもん）は、芥川龍之介による初期の小説。『今昔物語集』の「羅城門登上層見死人盗人語第十八」を題材にした短編小説。羅生門とは、朱雀大路にある平安京の正門のことである。正しくは羅城門であるが、人間の生を意識してあえて「羅生門」にしたと考えられている。高校教科書などでも採用され、広く知名度がある。 (source: Wikipedia) Note: You may have to embed your own Japanese unicode font in order for this to display on your reader. An English version is available on Feedbooks at: http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4254 This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3923.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3923.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3923.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3923.mobi The Complete Plato Plato http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7325 en 2007 Plato (428/427–348/347 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and mathematician of the Classic Age who founded the Academy of Athens. Noted as a student of Socrates, Plato has distinguished himself as one of the founders of Western philosophy by recording the teachings of his master and his own philosophies in 35 dialogues and 13 letters (some are disputed as spurious). However, this collection features only 25 authentic works from the reproduced source. Benjamin Jowett is credited for translating these works into English. While there are many websites online where one may find digital copies of his translations, the source of the copies reproduced for this publication may be found at the online library of the University of Adelaide in South Australia (http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/). The works are reproduced under the freedoms specified by a Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/). politics philosophy logic mathematics Rhetoric Epistemology http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7325.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7325.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7325.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/7325.mobi Time Crime Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/391 urn:isbn:1598189603 en 1955 Novels Science Fiction The Paratime Police had a real headache this time! Tracing one man in a population of millions is easy--compared to finding one gang hiding out on one of billions of probability lines! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/391.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/391.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/391.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/391.mobi The Europeans Henry James http://www.feedbooks.com/book/404 urn:isbn:0140621954 en 1878 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/404.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/404.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/404.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/404.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 À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs Marcel Proust http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1261 urn:isbn:2070380513 fr 1919 Novels À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs est le second tome d'À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust publié en 1919 chez Gallimard. Il reçoit la même année le prix Goncourt. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1261.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1261.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1261.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1261.mobi Doctor Who and the Scales of Injustice Gary Russell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2668 urn:isbn:0426204778 en 1996 Novels Science Fiction Humor/Satire The Silurians come up against a sinister government department. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2668.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2668.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2668.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2668.mobi Doctor Who: Nightshade Mark Gatiss http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2937 urn:isbn:0426203763 en 1992 Novels Science Fiction Humor/Satire Monsters of the mind kill all in their path. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2937.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2937.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2937.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2937.mobi La metamorfosis Franz Kafka http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3221 urn:isbn:9875505471 es 1915 Novels Horror La metamorfosis (Die Verwandlung, en su título original en alemán) es un relato de Franz Kafka, publicado en 1915 y que narra la historia de Gregorio Samsa, un comerciante de telas que vive con su familia a la que él mantiene con su sueldo, que un buen día amanece convertido en una criatura no identificada claramente en ningún momento, pero que tiende a ser reconocida como una especie de cucaracha gigante. Breve e intensa, es calificada a veces como "relato existencialista". En ocasiones el título es traducido como La transformación. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3221.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3221.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3221.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3221.mobi Kim Rudyard Kipling http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3772 urn:isbn:0199536465 en 1901 Novels Young Readers Adventure Kim, aka Kimball O'Hara, is the orphan son of a British soldier and a half-caste opium addict in India. While running free through the streets of Lahore as a child he befriends a British secret service agent. Later, attaching himself to a Tibetan Lama on a quest to be freed from the Wheel of Life, Kim becomes the Lama's disciple, but is also used by the British to carry messages to the British commander in Umballa. Kim's trip with the Lama along the Grand Trunk Road is only the first great adventure in the novel... This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3772.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3772.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3772.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3772.mobi Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4156 en 1874 Novels Romance Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to apply the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. When the beautiful and spirited Bathsheba Everdene inherits her own farm, she attracts three very different suitors; the seemingly commonplace man-of-the-soil Gabriel Oak, the dashing young soldier Francis Troy, and the respectable, middle-aged Farmer Boldwood. Her choice, and the tragedy it provokes, lie at the centre of Hardy's ambivalent story. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4156.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4156.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4156.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4156.mobi King Solomon's Mines Henry Rider Haggard http://www.feedbooks.com/book/89 urn:isbn:0192834851 en 1885 Novels Adventure King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist, Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a quest into an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of the missing brother of one of the party. It is significant as the first English fictional adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered the genesis of the Lost World literary genre. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/89.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/89.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/89.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/89.mobi The Idiot Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://www.feedbooks.com/book/367 urn:isbn:0679642420 en 1868 Novels Romance Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/367.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/367.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/367.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/367.mobi Kai Lung's Golden Hours Ernest Bramah Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906 en 1922 Novels Fantasy Kai Lung's Golden Hours is a fantasy novel by Ernest Bramah. It was first published in hardcover in London by Grant Richards Ltd. in October, 1922, and there have been numerous editions since. The first edition included a preface by Hilaire Belloc, which has also been a feature of every edition since. Its importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its reissuing by Ballantine Books as the forty-fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April, 1972. As with other Kai Lung novels, the main plot serves primarily as a vehicle for the presentation of the gem-like, aphorism-laden stories told by the protagonist Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. In Kai Lung's Golden Hours he is brought before the court of the Mandarin Shan Tien on treasonable charges by the Mandarin's confidential agent Ming-shu. In a unique defense, Kai Lung recites his beguiling tales to the Mandarin, successfully postponing his conviction time after time until he is finally set free. In the process he attains the love and hand of the maiden Hwa-Mei. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.mobi The Sundering Flood William Morris http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2908 urn:isbn:1587154994 en 1897 Novels Fantasy The Sundering Flood, among the last of Morris's works, was published in 1897, after his death. The beautiful prose and rich use of language are typical of Morris and fill the reader with a sense of awe and wonder. The "flood" of the title is nothing less than a river, metaphorically as well as literally dividing two lovers. And there is the fantastic, too: dwarf folk, a magic sword, and an ageless warrior to mentor the hero. All told, a delightful story certain to appeal to all lovers of classic fantasy. "C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien both acknowledged the influence of William Morris." http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2908.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2908.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2908.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2908.mobi The Wood Beyond the World William Morris http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626 urn:isbn:0345237307 en 1894 Novels Fantasy The Wood Beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. When the wife of Golden Walter betrays him for another man, he leaves home on a trading voyage to avoid the necessity of a feud with her family. His efforts are fruitless, as word comes to him enroute that his wife's clan has killed his father. As a storm then carries him to a faraway country, the effect of this news is merely to sunder his last ties to his homeland. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.mobi The Trial Franz Kafka http://www.feedbooks.com/book/9 urn:isbn:0805210407 en 1925 Novels Horror Fantasy The Trial (German: Der Process) is a novel by Franz Kafka about a character named Josef K., who awakens one morning and, for reasons never revealed, is arrested and prosecuted for an unspecified crime. According to Kafka's friend Max Brod, the author never finished the novel and wrote in his will that it was to be destroyed. After his death, Brod went against Kafka's wishes and edited The Trial into what he felt was a coherent novel and had it published in 1925. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/9.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/9.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/9.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/9.mobi Bulfinch's Mythology Thomas Bulfinch http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4172 en 1881 Collections Religion This is an 1881 compilation of Thomas Bulfinch's previous writings: The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes (1855); The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur (1858); and Legends of Charlemagne, or Romance of the Middle Ages (1863). "Our work is not for the learned, nor for the theologian, nor for the philosopher, but for the reader of English literature, of either sex, who wishes to comprehend the allusions so frequently made by public speakers, lecturers, essayists, and poets, and those which occur in polite conversation." http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4172.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4172.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4172.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4172.mobi The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories E. M. Forster http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4045 en 1911 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections A traveler steps off the road and finds himself in an alternate reality. A sullen boy accidentally summons a spirit. A man gets more than he bargained for when he buys his fiancée a plot of wooded land. These six stories deal with transformations, the truth of the imagination, and the effect of the unseen on ordinary lives. By juxtaposing the Edwardian English with pagan mythology, E.M. Forster created in this collection a work of lasting strangeness and great beauty. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4045.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4045.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4045.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/4045.mobi Tales of Old Japan Lord Redesdale http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2726 urn:isbn:0804833214 en 1871 Short Fiction History Collections Tales of Old Japan is an anthology of short stories, compiled by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale, writing under the better known name of A.B. Mitford. These stories focus on the varying aspects of Japanese life in centuries past. The book, which was written in 1871, is still regarded as an excellent introduction to Japanese literature and culture, by virtue of its ease of access and supplemental notes by the writer. Also included are the author's eyewitness accounts of a selection of Japanese rituals, ranging from the harakiri and marriage to a selection of sermons. This book had a lasting influence on the Western perception of Japanese history, culture and society, particularly because of just one widely known tale about samurai revenge. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2726.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2726.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2726.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2726.mobi Beatrice Henry Rider Haggard http://www.feedbooks.com/book/965 urn:isbn:1417999780 en 1890 Novels Adventure This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/965.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/965.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/965.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/965.mobi Cinq semaines en ballon Jules Verne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1476 urn:isbn:2253005908 fr 1862 Novels Adventure Travel http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1476.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1476.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1476.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1476.mobi The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli http://www.feedbooks.com/book/94 urn:isbn:0553212788 en 1513 Non-Fiction Philosophy War Politics Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. The treatise is not representative of the work published during his lifetime, but it is the most remembered, and the work responsible for bringing "Machiavellian" into wide usage as a pejorative term. It has also been suggested by some critics that the piece is, in fact, a satire. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/94.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/94.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/94.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/94.mobi The Land of Mist Arthur Conan Doyle http://www.feedbooks.com/book/353 en 1926 Novels Science Fiction Heavily influenced by Doyle's growing belief in Spiritualism after the death of his son, brother, and two nephews in World War I, the book focuses on Edward Malone's at first professional, and later personal interest in Spiritualism. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/353.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/353.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/353.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/353.mobi The Wikibooks Guide to Unix Computing Wikibooks http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5949 en 2009 The text of the Wikibook, "Guide to Unix," as of 10/6/2009. It describes Unix and Unix-like systems for users and system administrators. The text of this ebook is credited to 1. Kernigh, added much content, started Explanations 2. CFeyecare. I have been working on OpenBSD and I will continue to other BSDs later. 3. The authors of Guide to UNIX/Files and Guide to UNIX/Commands 4. Other and anonymous contributors 5. Other Sources computing unix wikibooks operating system http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5949.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5949.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5949.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5949.mobi BOLOGNA MikeMN http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5977 en 2009 Italy 2009 travel tips Bologna http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5977.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5977.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5977.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5977.mobi The God Chord: String Theory In The Landscape of the Heart Robert L. Schrag, Ph.D. http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/624 en 2008 String theory [ST] is a relatively recent development in theoretical physics that reveals the fundamental, irreducible building block of the universe to be an inconceivably tiny vibrating string. Everything is built of these strings. Hence, ST posits a universe made of music. This work examines the implications of ST in a landscape seen as remote from physics, the human heart. As such it is an exploration of ST in the harmonic nature of life, existence, love, God and the universe. healing Zen Spirituality theoretical physics string theory metaphysics nature of the universe super string theory brane theory peace of mind universe theory of everything harmony meaning http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/624.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/624.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/624.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/624.mobi