B R Samizdat Express: 2722 books

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...

This is a quite long book, very well written, about a trip down the Amazon. There is rather a lot of "Natural History", but not too much, because it has all been made easy to follow, and is very interesting. All sorts of interesting things happen on this voyage. It is a rather curious thing that one...

According to Wikipedia: "James Oliver Curwood, (June 12, 1878 August 13, 1927), was an American novelist and conservationist. A great number of his works were turned into movies, several of which starred Nell Shipman as a brave and adventurous woman in the wilds of the north. Many films from Curwood's...

First published in 1863, a first-hand account of an episode of the American Civil War. "The expedition, in the daring of its conception, had the wildness of a romance; while in the gigantic and overwhelming results it sought and was likely to accomplish, it was absolutely sublime."-- Official Report...

According to BBC: "Major John Richardson (1796-1852) was a veteran of the War of 1812, a historian, and English Canada's first novelist. Much to his frustration he was also - in his own time and to this day - one of English Canada's least-read novelists."

Classic Canadian novel, first published in 1875. According to Wikipedia: "May Agnes Fleming (November 15, 1840 - March 24, 1880) was a Canadian novelist. She was "one of the first Canadians to pursue a highly successful career as a writer of popular fiction." She was born May Early in Carleton, West...

This file includes all three books of the Fifth Queen Trilogy (historical novels set in the time of Henry VIII) -- The Fifth Queen (1906), Privy Seal (1907). and The Fifth Queen Crowned (1908) -- plus Ford's best-known novel, The Good Soldier. According to Wikipedia: "Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873...

According to Wikipedia: "Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (January 29, 1867 January 28, 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director. Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel Los cuatro jinetes del...

Popular history of pirates, first published in 1837

According to Wikipedia: "The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian Church denomination that is organised in a quasi-military manner. It is well known for its social services and charitable work. The founders, William and Catherine Booth, sought to bring Christian salvation to the poor, destitute and...

The sixth London edition, with all editions and corrections. Considered the definitive edition. the Introduction begins: "When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations...

According to Wikipedia: "John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher and civil servant. An influential contributor to social theory, political theory, and political economy, his conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control.[2]...

According to Wikipedia: "George Manville Fenn (January 3, 1831, Pimlico - August 26, 1909, Isleworth) was a British writer. He worked as a teacher in Lincolnshire, until he became printer, editor and publisher of various magazines. He had eight children with his wife Susanna Leake, whom he had married...

According to Wikipedia: "Ebenezer Cooke (ca. 1665 ca. 1732), a London-born poet, wrote what some scholars consider the first American satire: “The Sotweed Factor, or A Voyage to Maryland, A Satyr” (1708). He has been fictionalized by John Barth as the comically innocent protagonist of The Sot-Weed...