Wet Magic Edith Nesbit http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1312 en 1913 Novels Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1312.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1312.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1312.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1312.mobi The Phoenix and the Carpet Edith Nesbit http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1601 urn:isbn:014036739X en 1904 Novels Young Readers Fantasy It's startling enough to have a Phoenix hatch in your house, but even more startling when it reveals you have a magic carpet on the floor. Conceited it may be, but the Phoenix is also good-hearted, and obligingly accompanies the children on their adventures through time and space-which, magic being what it is, rarely turn out as they were meant... This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1601.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1601.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1601.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1601.mobi The Magic City Edith Nesbit http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1607 urn:isbn:1406530743 en 1910 Novels Young Readers Fantasy An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1607.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1607.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1607.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1607.mobi The Big Bounce Walter Tevis http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2027 en 1958 Short Fiction Science Fiction Seeing it in action, anybody would quaver in alarm: What hath Farnsworth overwrought? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2027.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2027.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2027.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2027.mobi The Book of Tea Kakuzo Okakura http://www.feedbooks.com/book/991 urn:isbn:1933330171 en 1906 Non-Fiction Philosophy The Book of Tea was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It was first published in 1906, and has since been republished many times. In the book, Kakuzo introduces the term Teaism and how Tea has affected nearly every aspect of Japanese culture, thought, and life. The book is accessibile to Western audiences because Kakuzo was taught at a young age to speak English; and spoke it all his life, becoming proficient at communicating his thoughts to the Western Mind. In his book, he discusses such topics as Zen and Taoism, but also the secular aspects of Tea and Japanese life. The book emphasises how Teaism taught the Japanese many things; most importantly, simplicity. Kakuzo argues that this tea-induced simplicity affected art and architecture, and he was a long-time student of the visual arts. He ends the book with a chapter on Tea Masters, and spends some time talking about Sen no Rikyu and his contribution to the Japanese Tea Ceremony. According to Tomonobu Imamichi, Heidegger's concept of Dasein in Sein und Zeit was inspired — although Heidegger remains silent on this — by Okakura Kakuzo's concept of das-in-dem-Welt-sein (to be in the being of the world) expressed in The Book of Tea to describe Zhuangzi's philosophy, which Imamichi's teacher had offerred to Heidegger in 1919, after having followed lessons with him the year before. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/991.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/991.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/991.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/991.mobi The Magic World Edith Nesbit http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1319 urn:isbn:0140367659 en 1912 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections This collection includes, "The Cat-hood of Maurice", "The Mixed Mine", "Accidental Magic", "The Princess and the Hedge-Pig", "Septimus Septimusson", "The White Cat", "Belinda and Bellamant", "Justnowland", "The Related Muff", "The Aunt and Anabel; "Kenneth and the Carp" and "The Magician's Heart" This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1319.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1319.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1319.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1319.mobi The Dragon Tamers Edith Nesbit http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1324 en 1899 Short Fiction Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1324.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1324.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1324.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1324.mobi The Enchanted Castle Edith Nesbit http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1599 urn:isbn:0140367438 en 1907 Novels Young Readers Fantasy An invisible princess, a magic ring, and more adventures than you could dream of. This is what Gerald, Kathleen and Jimmy find when they stumble upon a mysterious castle. At first it all appears to be a lark. But the children soon discover they need all their bravery and ingenuity to contend with the castle's supernatural forces. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1599.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1599.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1599.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1599.mobi The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2043 urn:isbn:0486446026 en 1919 Novels An uncompromising and self-destructive deserts his wife, family, business, and civilization for his art. Shedding harsh light on an artist's ego, Maugham reveals the lengths to which one man will go to focus on his art. Written in 1919, this unforgettable story is timeless in its appeal. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2043.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2043.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2043.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2043.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 Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling http://www.feedbooks.com/book/162 urn:isbn:0763623172 en 1894 Novels Fantasy The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling.The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/162.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/162.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/162.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/162.mobi The Aspern Papers Henry James http://www.feedbooks.com/book/425 en 1888 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/425.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/425.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/425.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/425.mobi New Grub Street George Gissing http://www.feedbooks.com/book/68 urn:isbn:0192836587 en 1891 Novels The story is about the literary world of late-Victorian London that Gissing inhabited, and its title, New Grub Street, alludes to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synonymous with the "hack writing" that pervades Gissing's novel; Grub Street itself was no longer extant when Gissing was writing. The novel contrasts Edwin Reardon, a congenitally uncommercial but talented writer, against Jasper Milvain, a selfish and unscrupulous hack who rejects artistic endeavour for material gain. Milvain's trite, manipulative work ascends while Reardon's work--and his life--spiral downward. The novel suggests that the literary world rewards materialistic self-promotion more than serious artistic sensibility. Gissing's biography--a respected writer who struggled for a long time to obtain commercial success--strongly suggests the novel is autobiographical, the author's stand-in being (of course) Reardon. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/68.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/68.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/68.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/68.mobi A Room with a View E. M. Forster http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2068 urn:isbn:0553213237 en 1908 Novels Romance This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson—who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist—Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2068.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2068.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2068.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2068.mobi