B R Samizdat Express: 2722 books

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:...

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...

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...

"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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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,...

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....

"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...

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...

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,...