Fanny Herself Edna Ferber http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3455 en 1917 Novels Biography <p>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. </p> 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 The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Emma Orczy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3568 urn:isbn:014037454X en 1905 Novels History Adventure <p>In this historical adventure set during the French Revolution, the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel sets out to rescue men, women and children facing the horrors of the guillotine, while evading the relentless pursuit of his arch enemy, Chauvelin.</p> This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3568.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3568.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3568.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3568.mobi The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan http://www.feedbooks.com/book/41 urn:isbn:0879238712 en 1915 Novels Thriller <p>The Thirty-Nine Steps shows...an attractive man, not too young...and not too old, since he must have the knowledge of maturity and substantial experience on which he will draw while being able to respond to the physical rigors of chase and pursuit. Let the hero, who appears at first to be relatively ordinary, and who thinks of himself as commonplace, be drawn against his best judgment into a mystery he only vaguely comprehends, so that he and the reader may share the growing tension together. Set him a task to perform...Place obstacles in his path the enemy, best left as ill-defined as possible, so that our hero cannot be certain who he might trust. See to it that he cannot turn to established authority to help, indeed that the police, the military, the establishment will be actively working against him.</p> <p>Then set a clock ticking...</p> This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/41.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/41.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/41.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/41.mobi The Call of the Wild Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/92 urn:isbn:0753454939 en 1903 Novels Adventure <p>The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him serving as a sled dog in the treacherous, frigid Yukon during the days of the 19th century Klondike Gold Rushes. <br />Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is one of London's most-read books, and it is generally considered one of his best. Because the protagonist is a dog, it is sometimes classified as a juvenile novel, suitable for children, but it is dark in tone and contains numerous scenes of cruelty and violence. <br />London followed the book in 1906 with White Fang, a companion novel with many similar plot elements and themes as The Call of the Wild, although following a mirror image plot in which a wild wolf becomes civilized by a mining expert from San Francisco named Weedon Scott.</p> This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/92.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/92.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/92.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/92.mobi Great Expectations Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/70 urn:isbn:0192833596 en 1861 Novels <p>Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is regarded as one of his greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is one of his most enduringly popular, having been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times. <br />Great Expectations is written in a semi-autobiographical style, and is the story of the orphan Pip, writing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood. The story can also be considered semi-autobiographical of Dickens, like much of his work, drawing on his experiences of life and people. <br />The action of the story takes place from Christmas Eve, 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years old, to the winter of 1840.</p> http://www.feedbooks.com/book/70.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/70.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/70.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/70.mobi Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen http://www.feedbooks.com/book/52 urn:isbn:0553213105 en 1813 Novels Romance <p>Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and one of these—the haughty, and even wealthier, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy—irks the vivacious Elizabeth Bennet, the second of the Bennet girls. She annoys him. Which is how we know they must one day marry. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and Darcy is a splendid rendition of civilized sparring. As the characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, Jane Austen's radiantly caustic wit and keen observation sparkle.</p> http://www.feedbooks.com/book/52.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/52.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/52.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/52.mobi The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1523 en 1850 Novels Romance Gothic <p>The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his magnum opus. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses to name the father, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne explores questions of grace, legalism, sin and guilt.</p> http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1523.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1523.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1523.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1523.mobi