The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1421 urn:isbn:0199536953 en 1892 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on October 14, 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on October 15 by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1421.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1421.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1421.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1421.mobi The Gambler Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3 urn:isbn:0812966937 en 1867 Novels The Gambler was written under the pressure of crushing debt. It is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man’s exhilarating and destructive addiction, a compulsion that Dostoevsky–who once gambled away his young wife’s wedding ring–knew intimately from his own experience. In the disastrous love affairs and gambling adventures of his character, Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the abyss of ultimate risk that he believed was an essential part of the Russian national character. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3.mobi Great Expectations Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/70 urn:isbn:0192833596 en 1861 Novels 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. 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. The action of the story takes place from Christmas Eve, 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years old, to the winter of 1840. 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 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2042 urn:isbn:0192840398 en 1857 Novels Romance Madame Bovary scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857. And the story itself remains as fresh today as when it was first written, a work that remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society. It tells the tragic story of the romantic but empty-headed Emma Rouault. When Emma marries Charles Bovary, she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is an ordinary country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, Rodolphe, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair. And Flaubert captures every step of this catastrophe with sharp-eyed detail and a wonderfully subtle understanding of human emotions. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2042.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2042.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2042.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2042.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 Swann's Way Marcel Proust http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1262 urn:isbn:0142437964 en 1922 Novels In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine". Still widely referred to in English as Remembrance of Things Past, the title In Search of Lost Time, a more accurate rendering of the French, has gained in usage since D.J. Enright's 1992 revision of the earlier translation by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Swann's Way is the first volume. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1262.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1262.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1262.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1262.mobi The Iliad of Homer Homer http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2962 urn:isbn:B0012AHIYI en -900 Poetry War Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper. The Iliad is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the late 9th or to the 8th century BC, and many scholars believe it is the oldest extant work of literature in the ancient Greek language, making it one of the first works of ancient Greek literature. The existence of a single author for the poems is disputed as the poems themselves show evidence of a long oral tradition and hence, possible multiple authors . http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2962.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2962.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2962.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2962.mobi The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas http://www.feedbooks.com/book/73 urn:isbn:037576030X en 1845 Novels Adventure The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas' most popular work. It is also among the highest selling books of all time. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and the Levant during the historical events of 1815–1838 (from just before the Hundred Days through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France). The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book. It is primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, forgiveness and death, and is told in the style of an adventure story. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/73.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/73.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/73.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/73.mobi Illusions perdues Honoré de Balzac http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1893 urn:isbn:2081207230 fr 1843 Novels http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1893.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1893.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1893.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1893.mobi Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3839 urn:isbn:2290335282 fr 1897 Romance Plays War Une représentation à l'hôtel de Bourgogne (en 1640). La salle du théâtre se remplit: on va y donner une pastorale, la Clorise, dans le genre précieux. Le jeune et beau Christian de Neuvillette y vient contempler la femme qu'il aime: Roxane, une précieuse «épouvantablement ravissante» à qui le comte de Guiche fait la cour. La pièce commence, mais est vite interrompue par le turbulent Cyrano de Bergerac, qui interdit à l'acteur Montfleury de jouer, car il est trop gros! Des spectateurs protestent, et l'un d'eux provoque Cyrano, en critiquant son nez, «très grand» — ce à quoi le héros réplique par la célèbre «tirade des nez», éloge de sa propre laideur, avant de se battre avec l'importun. Pendant le duel, il compose une ballade («À la fin de l'envoi, je touche!»). À son ami Le Bret, il confesse qu'il aime passionnément Roxane sa cousine, mais sa laideur le laisse sans espoir... This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3839.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3839.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3839.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3839.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