B R Samizdat Express: 2722 books

Cover of The Barracks and Other Stories
by Richard Seltzer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This collection includes "The Barracks" (about basic training during the Viet Nam War), "Yanni," "Vienna Pension Barbara," "Hands," "Saint Smith," and "Size Matters." "Spit and Polish", a screenplay based on "The Barracks" is also available for the Kindle. Richard Seltzer's published works include:...
Cover of Practical Cinematography
by Frederick Talbot
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015

Everything you need to know to make a silent movie with hundred-year-old equipment :-) 77 illustrations. First published in 1913. According to the Preface: "This volume has been written with the express purpose of assisting the amateur—the term is used in its broadest sense as a distinction from the...
Cover of Abe Lincoln and Jeff Davis: Lincoln's Writings plus Davis' Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
by Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

B&R Samizdat Express edition with complete tables of contents and links to every item and every chapter. This file includes all seven volumes of The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, with links to every one of nearly 2000 items. With his speeches, letters, and telegrams it provides a vivid picture of history...
Cover of How to Travel (1881)
by Thomas W. Knox
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015

"Hints, advice, and suggestins to travelers by land and sea all over the globe." First published in 1881. Great resource for research into that time period. Chapter titles: GENERAL ADVICE APPLICABLE TO ALL KINDS OF TRAVEL, RAILWAY TRAVEL IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADAS, AMERICAN STEAMBOAT TRAVEL,...
Cover of Dissertations on the English Language
by Noah Webster
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015

According to Wikipedia: "Noah Webster, Jr. (October 16, 1758 May 28, 1843), was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education." His blue-backed speller...
Cover of Desert Flower
by Sexton, Rex
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015

Desert Flower is a noir novel set in the Badlands of South Dakota. ... a storyline so skillfully devious it could have been written by Heinrich von Kleist two centuries go in Germany... this story is a thrill seeker's dream." -- Kirkus Discoveries "Sexton's fiction introduces you to worlds that outwardly...
Cover of Edge of the Jungle
by Richard Beebe
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2011

Popular collection of essays, first published in 1921. According to Wikipedia: "William Beebe, born Charles William Beebe (July 29, 1877 June 4, 1962) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author. He is remembered for the numerous expeditions he conducted...
Cover of The Enormous Room
by e. e. cummings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "The Enormous Room is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I. Cummings served as an ambulance driver during the war. In late August 1917 his friend and colleague, William Slater Brown...
Cover of Commentary on the Laws of England. Book First
by William Blackstone
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

"The following sheets contain the substance of a course of lectures on the laws of England, which were read by the author in the university of OXFORD. His original plan took it's rise in the year 1753: and, notwithstanding the novelty of such an attempt in this age and country, and the prejudices usually...
Cover of Dantons Tod, a play in German
by Georg Buchner
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany. It is widely believed that, but for his early death,...
Cover of Cutlass and Cudgel
by Fenn, George Manville
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

In some ways this book is reminiscent of "The Lost Middy", by the same author, but I suppose that with a similar theme, a nosey midshipman taken prisoner by a gang of smugglers, there are bound to be other points of similarity. Anyway, it is a good fast-moving story, with lots of well-drawn human interest....
Cover of Symphonies and Their Meaning: Third Series: Modern Symphonies
by Philip H. Goepp
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

"Criticism of contemporary art is really a kind of prophecy. For the appreciation of the classical past is an act of present perception, not a mere memory of popular verdicts. The classics live only because they still express the vital feeling of to-day. The new art must do more,--must speak for the...
Cover of How to Speak and Write Correctly (c. 1900)
by Joseph Devlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Practical, everyday advice, first published around 1900. According to the Introduction: "In the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one end in view, viz.: To make it serviceable for those for whom it is intended, that is, for those who have neither the time nor the opportunity, the learning...
Cover of Men, Women, and Boats
by Stephen Crane
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Tales and sketches by the author of "The Red Badge of Courage", including : The Open Boat, The Reluctant Voyagers, The End of the Battle, The Upturned Face, An Episode of War, an Experiment in Misery, The Duel that Was Not Fought, A Desertion, The Dark-Brown Dog, The Pace of Youth, Sullivan County Sketches,...
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