B R Samizdat Express: 2722 books
by R. W. Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Biography of Sir Francis Bacon. From the first chapter: "The life of Francis Bacon is one which it is a pain to write or to read. It is the life of a man endowed with as rare a combination of noble gifts as ever was bestowed on a human intellect; the life of one withwhom the whole purpose of living and...
by D. H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Classic short story. According to Wikipedia: "David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 2 March 1930) was an English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization....
by D.H. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Book of essays/literature criticism. According to Wikipedia: "David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 2 March 1930) was an English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization....
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Human, All Too Human (Menschliches, Allzumenschliches), subtitled A Book for Free Spirits (Ein Buch für freie Geister), is a book by 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1878. A second part, Assorted Opinions and Maxims (Vermischte Meinungen...
by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 January 6, 1919), also known as T.R., and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the 26th President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party, he was a Governor of New York...
by Maria R. Audubon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Volume 2 of 2. First published in 1897. This edition includes the illustrations that appeared in the original (all of which are black and white). According to Wikipedia: "John James Audubon (Jean-Jacques Audubon) (April 26, 1785 January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and...
by Henry R. Percival
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Christian Church and the word church are used to denote both a Christian association of people and a place of worship. The word church is usually, but not exclusively, associated with Christianity. The term means something quite different for each religious institution that sees...
by R. Talbot Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Overview of life in Egypt around 1900. Chapter titles include: Cairo, The Nile, The Monuments, The People, and The Desert.
by Jules Lermina
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Jules Lermina, né à Paris le le 27 mars 1839 et mort à Paris en 1913, est un romancier et journaliste français. Après avoir exercé divers métiers et tenté sans succès de se lancer dans les affaires, il entame une carrière journalistique en 1859 et s'engage du côté...
by Jules Lermina
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: French
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Jules Lermina, né à Paris le le 27 mars 1839 et mort à Paris en 1913, est un romancier et journaliste français. Après avoir exercé divers métiers et tenté sans succès de se lancer dans les affaires, il entame une carrière journalistique en 1859 et s'engage du côté...
by John Kendrick Bangs
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This file includes: Andiron Tales; The Autobiography of Methuselah; The Booming of Acre Hill and Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life; Coffee and Repartee; The Enchanted Typewriter; Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others; A House-Boat on the Styx; The Idiot; Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica; Olympian Nights;...
by Gilbert Parker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (November 23, 1862 September 6, 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain J. Parker, R.A... The best of his novels are those in which...
by Gilbert Parker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (November 23, 1862 September 6, 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain J. Parker, R.A... The best of his novels are those in which...
by Gilbert Parker
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC (November 23, 1862 September 6, 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain J. Parker, R.A... The best of his novels are those in which...