B R Samizdat Express: 2722 books

Cover of Woyzeck, a play in German
by Georg Buchner
Language: German
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 Black American Classics: eleven books in a single file
by Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Charles Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This file includes: "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. DuBois, "The Conjure Woman" by Charles Chesnutt, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson, "Clotel or The President's Daughter" by William Wells Brown, "The Complete Poems of Paul...
Cover of The Negro
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, public intellectual, Pan-Africanist, professor of sociology, historian, writer, and editor. At the age of 95, in 1963, he became a naturalized citizen of Ghana. David...
Cover of Essays on the Work Entitled "Supernatural Religion"
by J.B. Lightfoot
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic work in defense of Christianity, first published in 1889. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Barber Lightfoot (13 April 1828 21 December 1889) was an English theologian and Bishop of Durham, usually known as J.B. Lightfoot.
Cover of The Quest of the Silver Fleece
by W. E. B.Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, public intellectual, Pan-Africanist, professor of sociology, historian, writer, and editor. At the age of 95, in 1963, he became a naturalized citizen of Ghana. David...
Cover of Rim o' the World
by B. M. Bower
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic western. According to Wikipedia: "Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan, née Muzzy (November 15, 1871 July 23, 1940), best known by her pseudonym B. M. Bower, was an American novelist who wrote fictional stories about the American Old West... She wrote 57 Western novels, several of which were turned into films."
Cover of Nietzsche: six books in German
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This file includes: Also sprach Zarathustra; Ecce Homo: Wie man wird, was man ist; Die Geburt der Tragödie: Versuch einer Selbstkritik; Götzen-Dämmerung; Jenseits von Gut und Böse; Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch für freie Geister. According to Wikipedia: "Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October...
Cover of Jenseits von Gut und Böse (in the original German)
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 August 25, 1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying...
Cover of Ibsen: 18 plays in English translation
by Henrik Ibsen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This file includes: Catline 1850, translated by Anders Orbeck; The Warrior's Barrow (AKA The Burial Mound) 1850, translatd by Anders Orbeck; Olaf Liljerkrans 1856, translated by Anders Orbeck; The Feast at Solhoug 1855, translated by William Archer and Mary Morrison; Lady Inger of Ostrat 1855, translated...
Cover of Civil War Memoirs: Grant and Sherman
by Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Shserman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 July 23, 1885) was the 18th President of the United States (18691877) and military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction. Under Grant, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and effectively...
Cover of The Life of Cicero: both volumes in a single file
by Anthony Trollope
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Marcus Tullius Cicero (January 3, 106 BC December 7, 43 BC) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. Cicero is generally perceived to be one of...
Cover of Classic Western Sampler #1: 12 books by 12 different authors in a single file: Brand, Grey, Raine, Bower, Ellis, Wister, Fox, Garland, Hough, King, Seltzer, and White
by Max Brand
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This file includes: Riders of the Silences by Max Brand; Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey; A Texas Ranger by William MacLeod Raine; The Heritage of the Sioux by B.M. Bower; The Huge Hunter by Edward Ellis; The Virginian by Owen Wister; The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox, Jr.; A Daughter...
Cover of Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839
by Frances Anne Kemble
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Autobiographical journal, with first-hand account of slavery in Georgia, first published in 1863. According to Wikipedia: "Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 - 15 January 1893), was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century… In 1834, she retired from the stage to...
Cover of History of Woman Suffrage, volume 1
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to the Preface, this book is "Woven with the threads of this (Woman's suffrage) history, we have given some personal reminiscences and brief biographical sketches." This is the first of six volumes told by the heroines who fought for the women's vote. According to Wikipedia, "Elizabeth Cady...
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