Les Trois mousquetaires Alexandre Dumas http://www.feedbooks.com/book/502 urn:isbn:2253008885 fr 1844 Novels Adventure Le roman raconte les aventures d'un Gascon désargenté de 18 ans, d'Artagnan, monté à Paris faire carrière. Il se lie d'amitié avec Athos, Porthos et Aramis, mousquetaires du roi Louis XIII. Ces quatre hommes vont s'opposer au premier ministre, le Cardinal de Richelieu et à ses agents, dont la belle et mystérieuse Milady de Winter, pour sauver l'honneur de la reine de France Anne d'Autriche. Avec ses nombreux combats et ses rebondissements romanesques, Les Trois mousquetaires est l'exemple type du roman de cape et d'épée. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/502.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/502.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/502.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/502.mobi Voyage au centre de la Terre Jules Verne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1474 urn:isbn:2070514374 fr 1864 Novels Science Fiction Adventure Le professeur Lidenbrock trouve un document dans lequel il apprend l'existence d'un volcan éteint dont la cheminée pourrait le conduire jusqu'au centre de la Terre. Accompagné de son neveu Axel et du guide Hans, il se rend au volcan Sneffels, en Islande, et s'engouffre dans les entrailles de la Terre. Ils ne tarderont pas à faire d'étonnantes découvertes... http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1474.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1474.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1474.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1474.mobi Michel Strogoff Jules Verne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1294 urn:isbn:225300586X fr 1874 Novels Adventure Michel Strogoff est un roman de Jules Verne paru en 1875 écrit spécialement pour la visite du Tsar à Paris. Ce livre fut d'ailleurs approuvé par les autorités russes avant sa parution. Ce roman décrit le périple de Michel Strogoff, courrier du tsar de Russie, de Moscou à Irkoutsk, capitale de la Sibérie orientale. Sa mission est d'avertir le frère du tsar, sans nouvelles de Moscou, de l'arrivée imminente des hordes tartares menées par le traitre Ivan Ogareff pour envahir la Sibérie. Sur cette route pleine d'obstacles, il trouvera la belle Nadia, ainsi que les journalistes européens Harry Blount et Alcide Jolivet. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1294.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1294.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1294.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1294.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 Youth Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1510 urn:isbn:0375759441 en 1856 Non-Fiction Biography This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1510.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1510.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1510.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1510.mobi La tapisserie de sainte Geneviève et de Jeanne d’Arc Charles Péguy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2914 fr 1913 Poetry This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2914.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2914.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2914.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2914.mobi Sainte Geneviève patronne de Paris Charles Péguy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2929 fr 1913 Poetry This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2929.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2929.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2929.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2929.mobi La Tapisserie de Notre-Dame Charles Péguy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2928 urn:isbn:2910475077 fr 1913 Poetry This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2928.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2928.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2928.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2928.mobi The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2058 urn:isbn:1579126227 en 1920 Novels Crime/Mystery In her first published mystery, Agatha Christie introduces readers to the heroic detective, Hercule Poirot. This is a classic murder mystery set in the outskirts of Essex. The victim is the wealthy mistress of Styles Court. The list of suspects is long and includes her gold-digging new spouse and stepsons, her doctor, and her hired companion. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2058.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2058.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2058.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2058.mobi The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2059 urn:isbn:0451201205 en 1922 Novels Crime/Mystery Hiring themselves out as “young adventurers willing to do anything” is a smart move for Tommy and Tuppence. All Tuppence has to do is take an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris and pose as someone named Jane Finn. But with the job comes a threat to her life, and the disappearance of her mysterious employer. Now Tuppence’s newest job is playing detective—because if there’s a Jane Finn that really exists, she’s got a secret that’s putting both their lives in danger. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2059.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2059.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2059.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2059.mobi Michael Strogoff, or The Courier of the Czar Jules Verne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/478 urn:isbn:0689810962 en 1874 Novels Adventure http://www.feedbooks.com/book/478.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/478.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/478.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/478.mobi La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades Anonymous http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3062 urn:isbn:1934768030 es 1554 Novels Adventure Humor/Satire Lazarillo de Tormes es un esbozo irónico y despiadado de la sociedad del momento, de la que se muestran sus vicios y actitudes hipócritas, sobre todo las de los clérigos y religiosos. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarillo_de_Tormes Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3062.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3062.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3062.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3062.mobi Historia de la vida del Buscón Francisco de Quevedo http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3283 es 1626 Novels Adventure Humor/Satire El Buscón es un relato de la peripecia vital del pícaro don Pablos de Segovia, desde su infancia a la proyectada fuga a Indias con que termina la obra. Entre estos dos polos se sitúa una serie de aventuras, casi siempre catastróficas para el personaje, que fracasa en su búsqueda de estabilidad económica y social, y cuyos fingimientos de nobleza son desenmascarados sin cesar. http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib_autor/quevedo/pcuartonivel.jsp?conten=autor#vida http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3283.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3283.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3283.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3283.mobi Juguetes de la niñez y travesuras del ingenio Francisco de Quevedo http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3340 es 1631 Short Fiction Humor/Satire Obras de entretenimiento en las que predomina la sátira y la burla sobre los dominios social y literario. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3340.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3340.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3340.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3340.mobi Los sueños Francisco de Quevedo http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3341 es 1627 Short Fiction Humor/Satire Los Sueños, compuestos entre 1606 y 1623, circularon abundantemente manuscritos pero no se imprimieron hasta 1627. Se trata de cinco narraciones cortas de inspiración lucianesca donde se pasa revista a diversas costumbres, oficios y personajes populares de su época. Son, por este orden, El Sueño del Juicio Final (llamado a partir de la publicación de Juguetes de la niñez, la versión expurgada de 1631 El sueño de las calaveras), El alguacil endemoniado (redenominado El alguacil alguacilado), El Sueño del Infierno (esto es, Las zahúrdas de Plutón en su versión expurgada), El mundo por dentro (que mantuvo su nombre siempre) y El Sueño de la Muerte (conocido como La visita de los chistes). http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Quevedo http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3341.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3341.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3341.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3341.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 The Shot Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin http://www.feedbooks.com/book/77 en 1830 Short Fiction http://www.feedbooks.com/book/77.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/77.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/77.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/77.mobi The Daughter of the Commandant Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin http://www.feedbooks.com/book/369 urn:isbn:1406834181 en 1836 Novels Romance War Pyotr Andreyich Grinyov is the only surviving child of a retired army officer. When Pyotr turns 17, his father sends him into military service in Orenburg. En route Pyotr gets lost in a blizzard, but is rescued by a mysterious man. As a token of his gratitude, Pyotr gives the guide his hareskin jacket. Arriving in Orenburg, Pyotr reports to his commanding officer and is assigned to serve at Belogorsky fortress under captain Ivan Mironov. The fortress is nothing more than a fence around a village, and the captain's wife Vasilisa is really in charge. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/369.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/369.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/369.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/369.mobi The Death of Ivan Ilych Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/137 urn:isbn:0451528808 en 1886 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/137.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/137.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/137.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/137.mobi The Cossacks Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1528 urn:isbn:0679431314 en 1863 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1528.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1528.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1528.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1528.mobi The Cloak Nikolai Gogol http://www.feedbooks.com/book/538 urn:isbn:0226300684 en 1835 Short Fiction The story centers on the life and death of Akaky Akakievich, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Akaky is dedicated to his job, taking special relish in the hand-copying of documents, though little recognized in his department for his hard work. Instead, the younger clerks tease him and attempt to distract him whenever they can. His threadbare overcoat is often the butt of their jokes. Akaky decides it is necessary to have the coat repaired, so he takes it to his tailor, Petrovich, who declares the coat irreparable, telling Akaky he must buy a new overcoat. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/538.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/538.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/538.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/538.mobi Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol http://www.feedbooks.com/book/12 urn:isbn:0679776443 en 1842 Novels Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/12.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/12.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/12.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/12.mobi Oblomov Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov http://www.feedbooks.com/book/10 urn:isbn:1933480092 en 1858 Novels Romance Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature. Oblomov was compared to Shakespeare's Hamlet as answering 'No!' to the question "To be or not to be?" Oblomov is a young, generous nobleman who seems incapable of making important decisions or undertaking any significant actions. Throughout the novel he rarely leaves his room or bed and famously fails to leave his bed for the first 150 pages of the novel. The book was considered a satire of Russian nobility whose social and economic function was increasingly in question in mid-nineteenth century Russia. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/10.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/10.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/10.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/10.mobi Mother Maxim Gorky http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3918 en 1907 Novels History Politics The famous novel of revolutionary conversion and struggle. This novel of Russia before the Revolution is without question the masterpiece of Gorky, Russia's greatest living writer. Into one passionate, astonishing book has been gathered the spirit of the terrifying struggle against the Czar's autocracy. In it Russia stands forth in a flood of light. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3918.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3918.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3918.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3918.mobi Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen http://www.feedbooks.com/book/52 urn:isbn:0553213105 en 1813 Novels Romance 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. 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 Emma Jane Austen http://www.feedbooks.com/book/45 urn:isbn:0553212737 en 1816 Novels Romance Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like." http://www.feedbooks.com/book/45.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/45.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/45.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/45.mobi Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen http://www.feedbooks.com/book/53 urn:isbn:0192804782 en 1811 Novels Romance Elinor and Marianne are two daughters of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. Fortunately, a distant relative offers to rent the women a cottage on his property. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home, where they experience both romance and heartbreak. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/53.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/53.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/53.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/53.mobi Persuasion Jane Austen http://www.feedbooks.com/book/51 urn:isbn:0812565886 en 1818 Novels Romance The final novel by the acclaimed writer places heroine Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity and deep emotion, against the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/51.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/51.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/51.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/51.mobi