Poor Folk Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://www.feedbooks.com/book/362 urn:isbn:0486456617 en 1846 Novels Written in the form of letters, it recounts a blossoming romance amid St. Petersburg's slums between a middle-aged writer and a much younger seamstress. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/362.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/362.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/362.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/362.mobi A Raw Youth Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2137 urn:isbn:0393324907 en 1875 Novels http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2137.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2137.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2137.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2137.mobi The Possessed (The Devils) Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://www.feedbooks.com/book/368 urn:isbn:0199540497 en 1872 Novels The Possessed (In Russian: Бесы, tr. Besy), also translated as The Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For an explanation of the marked difference in the English-language title, please see the section "Note on the title" below. An extremely political book, The Possessed is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats begin to rise in Russia, different ideologies begin to collide. Dostoevsky casts a critical eye on both the left-wing idealists, exposing their ideas and ideological foundation as demonic, and the conservative establishment's ineptitude in dealing with those ideas and their social consequences. This form of intellectual conservativism tied to the Slavophil movement of Dostoevsky's day, is seen to have continued on into its modern manifestation in individuals like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Dostoevsky's novels focusing on the idea that utopias and positivists ideas, in being utilitarian, were unrealistic and unobtainable. The book has five primary ideological characters: Verkhovensky, Shatov, Stavrogin, Stepan Trofimovich, and Kirilov. Through their philosophies, Dostoevsky describes the political chaos seen in 19th-Century Russia. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/368.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/368.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/368.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/368.mobi The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2138 en 1877 Short Fiction Psychology http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2138.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2138.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2138.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2138.mobi Notes From The Underground Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://www.feedbooks.com/book/361 urn:isbn:0199536384 en 1864 Novels Notes from Underground (Russian: Записки из подполья, Zapíski iz podpól'ja, also translated in English as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld while Notes from Underground is the most literal translation) (1864) is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is considered by many to be the world's first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/361.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/361.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/361.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/361.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 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 Game Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2853 urn:isbn:080327999X en 1905 Novels Adventure On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joe's, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter. Responding to a review that took him to task for his realism, Jack London wrote, "I have had these experiences and it was out of these experiences, plus a fairly intimate knowledge of prize-fighting in general, that I wrote The Game." With this intimate realism, London took boxing out of the realm of disreputable topics and set it on a respectable literary course that extends from A. J. Liebling to Ernest Hemingway to Joyce Carol Oates. The familiarity of London's boxing writing testifies to its profound influence on later literary commentators on the sport, while the story The Game tells remains one of the most powerful and evocative portraits ever given of prizefighters in the grip of their passion. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2853.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2853.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2853.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2853.mobi The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://www.feedbooks.com/book/180 urn:isbn:0486437914 en 1880 Novels Psychology The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner,[1] but he died less than four months after its publication. The book portrays a parricide in which each of the murdered man's sons share a varying degree of complicity. On a deeper level, it is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, reason, free will and modern Russia. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which is also the main setting of the novel. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/180.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/180.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/180.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/180.mobi Crime and Punishment Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky http://www.feedbooks.com/book/38 urn:isbn:0679420290 en 1866 Novels Psychology The poverty-stricken Raskolnikov, believing he is exempt from moral law, murders a man only to face the consequences not only from society but from his conscience, in this seminal story of justice, morality, and redemption from one of Russia's greatest novelists. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/38.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/38.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/38.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/38.mobi War and Peace Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy http://www.feedbooks.com/book/83 urn:isbn:067003469X en 1869 Novels History War War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction, with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title, combined with the equally large topics of youth, marriage, age, and death. Though it is often called a novel today, it broke so many conventions of the form that it was not considered a novel in its time. Indeed, Tolstoy himself considered Anna Karenina (1878) to be his first attempt at a novel in the European sense. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/83.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/83.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/83.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/83.mobi Ulysses James Joyce http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1232 urn:isbn:0141182806 en 1922 Novels Sexuality Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. It is considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature. Ulysses chronicles the passage through Dublin by its main character, Leopold Bloom, during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title alludes to the hero of Homer's Odyssey (Latinised into Ulysses), and there are many parallels, both implicit and explicit, between the two works (e.g., the correspondences between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus). This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1232.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1232.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1232.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1232.mobi Martin Eden Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2855 en 1909 Novels Martin Eden (1909) is a novel by American author Jack London, about a struggling young writer. This book is a favorite among writers, who relate to Martin Eden's speculation that when he mailed off a manuscript, 'there was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps,' returning it automatically with a rejection slip. While some readers believe there is some resemblance between them, an important difference between Jack London and Martin Eden is that Martin Eden rejects socialism (attacking it as 'slave morality'), and relies on a Nietzschean individualism. In a note to Upton Sinclair, Jack London wrote, "One of my motifs, in this book, was an attack on individualism (in the person of the hero). I must have bungled, for not a single reviewer has discovered it." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2855.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2855.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2855.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2855.mobi The Rainbow David Herbert Lawrence http://www.feedbooks.com/book/214 urn:isbn:0375759654 en 1915 Novels Romance Sexuality The Rainbow is a 1915 novel by British author D. H. Lawrence. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family, particularly focusing on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters. Lawrence's frank treatment of sexual desire and the power plays within relationships as a natural and even spiritual force of life, though perhaps tame by modern standards, caused The Rainbow to be prosecuted in an obscenity trial in late 1915, as a result of which all copies were seized and burnt. After this ban it was unavailable in Britain for 11 years, although editions were available in the USA. The Rainbow was followed by a sequel in 1920, Women in Love. Although Lawrence conceived of the two novels as one, considering the titles The Sisters and The Wedding Ring for the work, they were published as two separate novels at the urging of his publisher. However, after the negative public reception of The Rainbow, Lawrence's publisher opted out of publishing the sequel. This is the cause of the delay in the publishing of the sequel. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/214.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/214.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/214.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/214.mobi Women in Love David Herbert Lawrence http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1030 urn:isbn:0486424588 en 1920 Novels Romance Sexuality Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual who articulates many opinions associated with the author. The emotional relationships thus established are given further depth and tension by an unadmitted homoerotic attraction between Gerald and Rupert. The novel ranges over the whole of British society at the time of the First World War and eventually ends high up in the snows of the Swiss Alps. As with most of Lawrence's works, Women in Love caused controversy over its sexual subject matter. One early reviewer said of it, "I do not claim to be a literary critic, but I know dirt when I smell it, and here is dirt in heaps — festering, putrid heaps which smell to high Heaven." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1030.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1030.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1030.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1030.mobi Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure John Cleland http://www.feedbooks.com/book/84 urn:isbn:1840224177 en 1749 Novels Sexuality Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland. Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/84.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/84.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/84.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/84.mobi Before Adam Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2854 urn:isbn:0803279930 en 1907 Novels Adventure A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Tooth, an ancestor living at the dawn of humanity. Big-Tooth makes his home in Pleistocene Africa, a ferocious, fascinating younger world torn by incessant conflict between early humans and protohumans. Before Adam is a remarkable and provocative tale that thrust evolution further into the public spotlight in the early twentieth century and has since become a milestone of speculative fiction. The brilliance of the book lies not only in its telling but also in its imaginative projection of a mindset for early humans. Capitalizing on his recognized ability to understand animals, Jack London paints an arresting and dark portrait of how our distant ancestors thought about themselves and their world. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2854.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2854.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2854.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2854.mobi The Son of the Wolf Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2849 urn:isbn:019283486X en 1900 Short Fiction Adventure Collections Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. This, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon. The stories tell of gambles won and lost, of endurance and sacrifice, and often turn on the qualities of exceptional women and on the relations between the white adventurers and the native tribes. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2849.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2849.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2849.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2849.mobi The Little Lady of the Big House Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3117 urn:isbn:0554076411 en 1916 Novels Romance Sexuality A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination of agribusiness in California. Jack London said of this novel: "It is all sex from start to finish -- in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of being achieved, and in which, nevertheless, is all the guts of sex, coupled with strength." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3117.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3117.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3117.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3117.mobi Private Showing Joseph Devon http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3160 en 2007 A simple story about a man struggling to deal with loss. This is one of the shortest pieces I’ve ever written. This description will be equally short. fiction Creative Commons Art short story loss pool grief pool hall longing http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3160.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3160.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3160.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3160.mobi Jacob Checks Out Joseph Devon http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3161 en 2007 A confused narrator tries to piece together the life of one of his oldest friends, Jacob. Various parts of Jacob’s life are held up to the light, from childhood through present day, as friends try to find the cracks that eventually led to Jacob’s unconventional exit. fiction Creative Commons short story narrator first person http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3161.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3161.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3161.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/3161.mobi Probability Angels Joseph Devon http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4688 en 2009 Matthew Huntington’s problems seem to keep growing. Not only is he seeing things in garbage cans but his mentor doesn’t think he’s working up to his full potential, his best friend can’t offer any solace but drunken confusion, and his wife is dying in Central Park. Of course, the fact that Matthew himself died over two decades ago isn’t helping things. And then things start to really go wrong. Come explore the world of Matthew and Epp and see what a samurai from Feudal Japan has to do with the course of modern physics, what a two-thousand year old Roman slave has to do with the summit of Mount Everest, and what a dead man from Brooklyn has to do with the fate of the world. science fiction fantasy Blog fiction Creative Commons 21st Century devon “New York” brooklyn “physics” “murder” “angels” “dark fantasy” ”immortal” http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.mobi The Life of a Lie Bethany K. Scanlon http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4496 en 2009 Several years of working in strip clubs brought destitution and waste. Bound by deception, I fought to get out. With everything pulling at me to stay in, I made a decision that forever changed my life. Available covered on Amazon.com http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4496.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4496.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4496.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4496.mobi Born of the Spirit Bethany K. Scanlon http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1583 en 2006 Born of the Spirit takes the reader through a journey with God to discover how to birth out His promises for their life. As a Christian we always want to know if we are in God's will or not and if He is pleased with us. This book reveals to the reader how to know that they know if they are smack dab in the middle of His purpose for their lives and if not, how to be. Born of the Spirit will show you how to receive God's promises for your life and what can stop God's perfect plan for you. Available covered on Amazon.com! creativity new religion meaning Christian Christianity Bethany K. Scanlon http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1583.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1583.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1583.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1583.mobi Angel Falling Softly Eugene Woodbury http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2950 en 2008 The suspenseful tale of an unlikely friendship. The younger of Rachel Forsythe's two daughters is dying of cancer. Milada Daranyi, chief investment officer at Daranyi Enterprises International, has come to Utah to finalize the takeover of a medical technology company. When a chance encounter brings them together, Rachel makes an unexpected and very dangerous discovery. Milada is a vampire, and possibly the only person in the world who can save Rachel's daughter. fantasy religion Mormon horror vampire supernatural http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2950.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2950.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2950.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2950.mobi The Path of Dreams Eugene Woodbury http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2880 en 2008 Although they have never met before, a seemingly chance encounter leaves Elaine Chieko Packard and Connor McKenzie haunted by passionate dreams they cannot control. They determine to resolve the growing tension between the moral strictures of their religion and their own overpowering emotions by eloping, a decision that triggers an entirely unexpected series of events. romance Mormon religious fiction lds fiction interracial romance japan paranormal http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2880.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2880.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2880.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2880.mobi Biblical Mysteries Lonely Soul http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1950 en 2008 In this book you can explore many puzzling biblical mysteries, including: -- Does the Devil really exist? -- Was Mary Magdalene secretly married to Jesus? -- Where is Hell located? -- What was in the Lost Gospels? -- Who was the mysterious Beloved Disciple? -- Is there a divine language? -- Can people be possessed by demons? -- Why did Jesus call himself the Son of Man? -- And many more ... history religion bible Christian Christianity http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1950.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1950.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1950.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/1950.mobi English Goth Nick Armbrister http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4309 en 2009 With poignant dark powerful music blasting out of the speakers at Langdon’s main alternative club, a night out for a young Goth gal turns out to be a night to remember. Will Diane meet Mr. Goth tonight? A dark prince can be so hard to find. romance http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4309.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4309.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4309.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4309.mobi