The Country of the Blind H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/596 urn:isbn:142645595X en 1911 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/596.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/596.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/596.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/596.mobi The Door in the Wall H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/597 urn:isbn:1600964893 en 1911 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/597.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/597.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/597.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/597.mobi The Wheels of Chance H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/634 urn:isbn:1558215646 en 1895 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/634.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/634.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/634.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/634.mobi Star-begotten H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2600 urn:isbn:B0013XW2TA en 1937 Short Fiction Science Fiction Star Begotten is a 1937 novel by H. G. Wells. It tells the story of a series of men who conjecture upon the possibility of the human race being altered by Martians to replace their own dying planet. The protagonist of the story Joseph Davis, who is an author of popular histories, becomes overtaken with suspicion that he and his family have already been exposed and are starting to change. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2600.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2600.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2600.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2600.mobi The World Set Free H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/831 urn:isbn:080329820X en 1914 Novels Science Fiction THE WORLD SET FREE was written in 1913 and published early in 1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future of some contemporary force or group of forces. The World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the Great War. Every intelligent person in the world felt that disaster was impending and knew no way of averting it, but few of us realised in the earlier half of 1914 how near the crash was to us. The reader will be amused to find that here it is put off until the year 1956. Noteworthy for its depiction of fictional ''atomic bombs'' which eerily prefigure the development of real nuclear weapons. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/831.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/831.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/831.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/831.mobi Miss Waters H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1788 urn:isbn:2070375595 fr 1902 Novels Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1788.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1788.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1788.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1788.mobi The Empire of the Ants H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/599 urn:isbn:1842124021 en 1905 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/599.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/599.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/599.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/599.mobi In the Days of the Comet H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2477 urn:isbn:1406584207 en 1906 Novels Science Fiction A fantastic tale of the world's beauty and unity after the Great Change occurs. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2477.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2477.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2477.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2477.mobi The Star H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/607 urn:isbn:1842124021 en 1897 Short Fiction Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/607.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/607.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/607.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/607.mobi The Chronic Argonauts H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1518 en 1888 Short Fiction Science Fiction This brief story begins with a third-person account of the arrival of a mysterious inventor to the peaceful Welsh town of Llyddwdd. Dr. Nebogipfel takes up residence in a house sorely neglected after the deaths of its former inhabitants. The main bulk of the story concerns the apprehension of the simple rural folk who eventually storm the inventor's "devilish" workshop in an effort to repay supposed witchery. Nebogipfel escapes with one other person—the sympathetic Reverend Elijah Ulysses Cook—in what is later revealed to be a time machine. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1518.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1518.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1518.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1518.mobi A Dream of Armageddon H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/598 en 1901 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/598.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/598.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/598.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/598.mobi The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/594 urn:isbn:0486448460 en 1904 Novels Science Fiction Two scientists devise a compound that produces enormous plants, animals — and humans! The chilling results are disastrous. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/594.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/594.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/594.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/594.mobi The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/632 urn:isbn:1842124021 en 1902 Short Fiction Ghost Stories This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/632.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/632.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/632.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/632.mobi The Sleeper Awakes H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/593 urn:isbn:0803298188 en 1910 Novels Science Fiction The Sleeper Awakes is H. G. Wells's wildly imaginative story of London in the twenty-second century and the man who by accident becomes owner and master of the world. In 1897 a Victorian gentleman falls into a sleep from which he cannot be waked. During his two centuries of slumber he becomes the Sleeper, the most well known and powerful person in the world. All property is bequeathed to the Sleeper to be administered by a Council on his behalf. The common people, increasingly oppressed, view the Sleeper as a mythical liberator whose awakening will free them from misery. The Sleeper awakes in 2100 to a futuristic London adorned with wondrous technological trappings yet staggering under social injustice and escalating unrest. His awakening sends shock waves throughout London, from the highest meetings of the Council to the workers laboring in factories in the bowels of the city. Daring rescues and villainous treachery abound as workers and capitalists fight desperately for control of the Sleeper. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/593.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/593.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/593.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/593.mobi Tales of Space and Time H. G. Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3469 en 1900 Short Fiction Science Fiction Collections A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3469.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3469.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3469.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3469.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 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 The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle http://www.feedbooks.com/book/67 urn:isbn:0812564839 en 1912 Novels Adventure The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. Interestingly, for a seminal work of dinosaur-related fiction, the animals only occupy a small portion of the narrative. Much more time is devoted to a war between early human hominids and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/67.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/67.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/67.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/67.mobi The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1513 urn:isbn:0553212702 en 1851 Novels Romance Gothic In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family’s salvation—or its downfall. Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables “a Romance,” and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared “the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel.” http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1513.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1513.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1513.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1513.mobi The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1523 en 1850 Novels Romance Gothic 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. 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 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë http://www.feedbooks.com/book/144 urn:isbn:1551111802 en 1847 Novels Romance Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847. Its representation of the underside of domestic life and the hypocrisy behind religious enthusiasm drew both praise and bitter criticism, while Charlotte Brontë's striking expose of poor living conditions for children in charity schools as well as her poignant portrayal of the limitations faced by women who worked as governesses sparked great controversy and social debate. Jane Eyre, Brontë's best-known novel, remains an extraordinary coming-of-age narrative, and one of the great classics of literature. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/144.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/144.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/144.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/144.mobi Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë http://www.feedbooks.com/book/135 urn:isbn:0553212583 en 1847 Novels Gothic Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres (as an adjective, wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather). The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/135.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/135.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/135.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/135.mobi The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka http://www.feedbooks.com/book/8 urn:isbn:0553213695 en 1912 Short Fiction Horror The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a "monstrous vermin". This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/8.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/8.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/8.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/8.mobi The Beast in the Jungle Henry James http://www.feedbooks.com/book/482 urn:isbn:0486275523 en 1903 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/482.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/482.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/482.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/482.mobi Little Dorrit Charles Dickens http://www.feedbooks.com/book/687 urn:isbn:037575914X en 1857 Novels Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens’s previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that “intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickens’s other great attributes derive: his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.” http://www.feedbooks.com/book/687.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/687.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/687.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/687.mobi An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/210 urn:isbn:0679783369 en 1776 Non-Fiction Science Politics Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/210.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/210.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/210.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/210.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 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