Once you've purchased an Amazon Kindle e-book reader, the wonderful world of public domain, Creative Commons and free e-book promotions opens up to you. This regular Kindle Reader feature points you to a few of the most interesting new free (or very cheap) e-books available for download from the web.
Free e-book selections and/or very inexpensive selections for this week include three old-time whodunits, a science fiction classic, the diary of a WWI nurse, and a novel that that critics have praised as one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century. Enjoy!
The Murders in the Rue Morgue, by Edgar Allan Poe. MYSTERY. Download site: ManyBooks. Format: Kindle (.azw). Price: Free.
"C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mysterious brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human...." - ManyBooks.
The Man with the Clubfoot, by Valentine Williams. THRILLER. Download site: ManyBooks. Format: Kindle (.azw). Price: Free.
"The Man with the Clubfoot is one of the most ingenious and sinister secret agents in Europe. It is to him that the task is assigned of regaining possession of an indiscreet letter written by the Kaiser. Desmond Okewood, a young British officer with a genius for secret service work, sets out to thwart this man and, incidentally, discover the whereabouts of his brother." - ManyBooks.
A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. SCIENCE FICTION. Download site: Amazon. Format: Kindle (.azw). Price: Free.
"...a wonderful scientific romance that perhaps can be best described as early science fiction melded with an epic dose of romantic adventure.
A Princess of Mars is the first adventure of John Carter, a Civil War veteran who unexpectedly find himself transplanted to the planet Mars. Yet this red planet is far more than a dusty, barren place; it's a fantasy world populated with giant green barbarians, beautiful maidens in distress, and weird flora and monstrous fauna the likes of which could only exist in the author's boundless imagination." - Amazon.com Review.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915, by a World War I nurse. MEMOIR. Download site: ManyBooks. Also available in the
Amazon Kindle Bookstore. Format: Kindle (.azw). Price: Free.
"In August 1914, the diarist left England for Havre, on the staff of a general hospital. She gives a detailed record of her experiences, including days at Havre waiting for orders, work on ambulance trains bringing wounded from Ypres, Neuve Chapelle, and St. Eloi, and later, duty with a field ambulance, involving frequent movings and alarms, and billets in towns that were under shell-fire." - ManyBooks.
The Eye of Osiris, by R. Austin Freeman. MYSTERY. Download site: Amazon. Format: Kindle (.azw). Price: $0.99.
"Before
Bones, before
CSI, before
Quincy,M.E. there was Dr. John Thorndyke. In
The Eye of Osiris, John Bellingham, noted Egyptologist vanished not once but twice in the same day. Two years later Dr, John Thorndyke must unravel the tangled claims on his estate and solve the riddle of the missing man. Is the dismembered body who's various remains start appearing at sites across the landscape that of John Bellingham? If so, how did he die, who killed him, and as important to Dr. Thorndyke's clients, when was he killed? Using the latest techniques of Edwardian forensic science, Dr. John Thorndyke must answer these questions..." - Publisher.
Middlemarch, by George Eliot. NOVEL. Download site: MobileRead. Format: Kindle (.prc). Price: Free.
"Middlemarch is considered to be George Eliot's greatest work and, in the opinion of many, is one of the greatest English novels of the 19th century. At the time it was published, in 1872, Eliot was universally acclaimed as the greatest living English novelist - the older writers of the Victorian era, such as Dickens and the Bronte sisters were dead, and the younger generation, such as Thomas Hardy, had not yet achieved fame. In Middlemarch, Eliot shows her mastery of the multi-plot novel, in which a number of different stories are interwoven. She interweaves the stories of various friends, acquaintances, and relations in the fictional town of Middlemarch in early 19th-century England." - MobileRead.
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