Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1469 urn:isbn:1593083653 en 1848 Novels “I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year,” observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest—and most appealing—women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the many fascinating figures that populate William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair, a wonderfully satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Scorned for her lack of money and breeding, Becky must use all her wit, charm and considerable sex appeal to escape her drab destiny as a governess. From London’s ballrooms to the battlefields of Waterloo, the bewitching Becky works her wiles on a gallery of memorable characters, including her lecherous employer, Sir Pitt, his rich sister, Miss Crawley, and Pitt’s dashing son, Rawdon, the first of Becky’s misguided sexual entanglements. Filled with hilarious dialogue and superb characterizations, Vanity Fair is a richly entertaining comedy that asks the reader, “Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?” http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1469.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1469.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1469.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1469.mobi The American in Paris - Vol. I John Sanderson http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3331 en 1838 Non-Fiction Biography (Two volumes.) Sketches of Paris and French people : In Familiar Letters to His Friends. An account of the teacher and writer's experiences and perceptions of France, where he had traveled for health reasons in 1835. Noted for its astute and striking descriptions, it became popular in the United States, is published in London as The American in Paris (1838), and would be later translated into French by Jules Janin. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3331.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3331.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3331.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3331.mobi Halo Tom Maddox http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1996 en 1991 Novels Science Fiction In the latter half of the twenty-first century, freelance data-auditor Mikhail Gonzales has been contracted to monitor an AI-controlled orbiting colony. Complications arise when an experimental treatment for a critically injured man is opposed by Gonzales' employer, the SenTrax corporation. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1996.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1996.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1996.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1996.mobi Starfish Peter Watts http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974 urn:isbn:0312868553 en 2000 Novels Science Fiction A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness. Unfortunately the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental power stations are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways. How many of them can survive, or will be allowed to survive, while worldwide disaster approaches from below? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.mobi The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle http://www.feedbooks.com/book/66 urn:isbn:1905432585 en 1923 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections The last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written. Some of the sharpest turns of wit in English literature are contrasted by dark images of psychological tragedy, suicide, and incest in a collection of tales that have haunted generations of readers. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/66.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/66.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/66.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/66.mobi John Thorndyke's Cases R. Austin Freeman http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2062 urn:isbn:1557424551 en 1909 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections This volume collects seven of Thorndyke's most puzzling stories, including "The Man with the Nailed Shoes," "The Moabite Cipher," "A Message from the Deep Sea," and many more. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2062.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2062.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2062.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2062.mobi The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle http://www.feedbooks.com/book/58 urn:isbn:0517174960 en 1893 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/58.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/58.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/58.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/58.mobi Accelerando Charles Stross http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228 urn:isbn:0441014151 en 2005 Novels Science Fiction The book is a collection of nine short stories telling the tale of three generations of a highly dysfunctional family before, during, and after a technological singularity. It was originally written as a series of novelettes and novellas, all published in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in the period 2001 to 2004. The first three stories follow the character of "venture altruist" Manfred Macx starting in the early 21st Century, the second three stories follow his daughter Amber, and the final three focus largely on her son Sirhan in the completely transformed world at the end of the century. According to Stross, the initial inspiration for the stories was his experience working as a programmer for a high-growth company during the dot-com boom of the 1990s. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228.mobi Gigolo Edna Ferber http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3816 urn:isbn:0554377691 en 1922 Short Fiction Romance Collections Humor/Satire Eight stories of tangy satire and sweet sentimentality. Filled with human drama, unfaltering reason, and extraordinary description. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3816.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3816.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3816.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3816.mobi Dubliners James Joyce http://www.feedbooks.com/book/5 urn:isbn:0486268705 en 1914 Short Fiction Collections Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They center on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character has a special moment of self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by children as protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/5.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/5.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/5.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/5.mobi Password Incorrect Nick Name http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127 en 2008 Short Fiction Collections 25 short, sometimes funny and sometimes mean stories ideal to rediscover the joy of reading a book as shiny and beautiful as a brand new cell phone. A look from a distance at the absurdity of our present day lives: fights with the less and less comprehensible equipment, pursuit of the latest technological news, pitfalls of our modern lifestyle, useless inventions and issues racing in all directions at a breakneck speed. A lot of entertainment and a little food for thought. Just perfect for the moment when you're finally bored with exploring the alarm settings on your new iPhone. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.mobi Whirligigs O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3621 urn:isbn:1419126164 en 1910 Short Fiction Collections A collectior of 24 short stories: The World and the Door; The Theory and the Hound; The Hypotheses of Failure; Calloway's Code; A Matter of Mean Elevation; Girl; Sociology in Serge and Straw; The Ransom of Red Chief; The Marry Month of May; A Technical Error; Suite Homes and Their Romance; The Whirligig of Life; A Sacrifice Hit; The Roads We Take; A Blackjack Bargainer; The Song and the Sergeant; One Dollar's Worth; A Newspaper Story; Tommy's Burglar; A Chaparral Christmas Gift; A Little Local Colour; Georgia's Ruling; Blind Man's Holiday; and Madame Bo Peep of the Ranches. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3621.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3621.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3621.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3621.mobi The Confessions of Arsène Lupin Maurice Leblanc http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3707 urn:isbn:0809533596 en 1913 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Adventure Collections This collection of Lupin short stories presents more puzzling criminal involvements of the classic French hero-thief and his men. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3707.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3707.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3707.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3707.mobi The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving http://www.feedbooks.com/book/196 urn:isbn:0809594080 en 1820 Short Fiction Horror Ghost Stories http://www.feedbooks.com/book/196.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/196.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/196.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/196.mobi Options O. Henry http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3597 urn:isbn:1589630149 en 1909 Short Fiction Collections A collection of 16 short stories. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3597.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3597.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3597.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3597.mobi The Lost Stradivarius John Meade Falkner http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1605 urn:isbn:1434624242 en 1895 Novels Horror Ghost Stories The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case an extremely fine Stradivarius violin. After finding the violin of the title in a hidden compartment in his college rooms, the protagonist, a wealthy young heir, becomes increasingly secretive as well as obsessed by a particular piece of music, which seems to have the power to call up the ghost of its previous owner. Roaming from England to Italy, the story involves family love, lordly depravity, and the tragedy of obsession, all conveyed in a "high" serious tone not uncommon in late Victorian literature. Preceding M.R. James's ghost stories by several years, it has been called the novel James might have written, had he written novels. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1605.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1605.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1605.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1605.mobi Curious, If True: Strange Tales Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3335 en 1859 Short Fiction Horror Collections Ghost Stories A collection of five spooky Victorian stories. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3335.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3335.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3335.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3335.mobi When God Laughs & Other Stories Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3233 en 1911 Short Fiction Collections This outstanding collection includes "The Apostate," "Just Meat," "A Piece of Steak," and "Chinago." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3233.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3233.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3233.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3233.mobi The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Algernon Blackwood http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1066 urn:isbn:1592241891 en 1916 Short Fiction Horror Collections 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/1066.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1066.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1066.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1066.mobi The Ant King and Other Stories Benjamin Rosenbaum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2872 urn:isbn:1931520534 en 2008 Short Fiction Science Fiction Fantasy Collections A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron’s zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children’s collective goes house hunting. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2872.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2872.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2872.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2872.mobi Just so Stories Rudyard Kipling http://www.feedbooks.com/book/865 urn:isbn:0517266555 en 1902 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/865.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/865.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/865.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/865.mobi The Awakening & Other Short Stories Kate Chopin http://www.feedbooks.com/book/342 urn:isbn:0679783334 en 1899 Short Fiction Sexuality The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel. As Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin "was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it." http://www.feedbooks.com/book/342.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/342.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/342.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/342.mobi Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Montague Rhodes James http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3677 urn:isbn:0809593912 en 1904 Short Fiction Collections Ghost Stories Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is the title of M. R. James' first collection of ghost stories, published in 1904 (some had previously appeared in magazines). Some later editions under this title contain both the original collection and its successor, More Ghost Stories (1911), combined in one volume. Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasise the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3677.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3677.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3677.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3677.mobi Semblances S. P. Elledge http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3544 en 2009 Even more short stories. fiction short stories short stories literary http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3544.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3544.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3544.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3544.mobi Ensemble S. P. Elledge http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3527 en 2009 Thirteen short stories. fiction short stories short stories literary http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3527.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3527.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3527.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3527.mobi Cruel K. A. Laity http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1345 en 1992 Dangerous Liaisons in leather jackets: it's 1982 in New Jersey, but the story's still the same as it was for Anthony and Cleopatra. young love Dangerous Liaisons New Jersey torment http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1345.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1345.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1345.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1345.mobi Dissemblings S. P. Elledge http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3545 en 2009 Still more short stories. fiction short stories short stories literary http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3545.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3545.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3545.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3545.mobi Lunch Meat Michael M. Hughes http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1097 en 2008 A corporate horror story set in the not-so-distant future. fiction short story horror lunch http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1097.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1097.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1097.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1097.mobi