B R Samizdat Express: 2722 books

History of the Catholic Church in Europe. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870[1] 16 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth...

Lord's Lectures, Beacon Lights of History Volume 4. The series was first published 1883-1896. According to Wikipedia: "John Lord (18101894) was an American historian and lecturer. Born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he graduated from Dartmouth in 1833 and then entered the Andover Theological Seminary,...

According to Wikipedia: "Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Bt, (22 February 1857 8 January 1941)..., was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement.... Several of his military books, written for military reconnaissance...

This file includes: The Ethics, On the Improvement of the Understanding, and A Theologico-Political Treatise (all four parts). According to Wikipedia: "Baruch or Benedict de Spinoza (November 24, 1632 February 21, 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Jewish origin. Revealing considerable scientific...

This file includes: The Art of Controversy, The Art of Literature, Counsels and Maxims, On Authorship and Style and Other Essays, Religion: a Dialogue and Other Essays, Studies in Pessimism, and The Wisdom of Life. According to Wikipedia: "Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 - September 21, 1860)...

According to Wikipedia: "Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC (30 December 1869 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and economist... Early in his career, Leacock turned to fiction, humour, and short reports to supplement (and ultimately exceed) his regular income. His stories, first published in magazines...

According to Wikipedia: "Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 July 31, 1784) was a French philosopher and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment, his major contribution to the Enlightenment being the Encyclopédie. Diderot also contributed to literature, notably with Jacques le fataliste...

Vintage erotica, first published in 1898.

This file includes: A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus, On the Sublime by Longinus, On Friendship and Old Age by Cicero, Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, and The Consolation of History by Boethius.

First published in 1910. The book begins: " "Homer's world," "the world that Homer knew," these are familiar phrases; and criticism is apt to tell us that they are empty phrases. Nevertheless when we use them we think of that enchanted land, so clearly seen in the light of "the Sun of Greece"; in the...

This file includes: A Week on the Concord and the Merrimack Rivers, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walden, Canoeing in the Wilderness, A Plea for Captain John Brown, Walking, Wild Apples, and Excursions, and Cape Cod. According to Wikipedia: "Henry David Thoreau (1817 1862) was an American author,...

This file includes: Father Sergius, Master and Man, What Men Live by and Other Tales, The Cause of It All, The First Distiller, Fruits of Culture, The Light Shines in Darkness, The Live Corpse, The Power of Darkness, and War and Peace. According to Wikipedia: "Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy...

Biographies of Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, and Whitman, for children, first published in 1919

Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "George Robert Gissing (November 22, 1857 December 28, 1903) was an English novelist who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. From his early naturalistic works, he developed into one of the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era. ......