Samizdat Express: 2864 books

From the series "Masterpieces in Color", with 10 illustrations. Biography of the 18th century artist, who was a relative of the businessman and politician Mitt Romney. According to Wikipedia: "George Romney (26 December 1734 15 November 1802) was an English portrait painter. He was the most fashionable...

Hauff's most famous short story, a classic horror tale, in English translation, as first published in 1869. According to Wikipedia: "Wilhelm Hauff (November 29, 1802 November 18, 1827) was a German poet and novelist... Considering his brief life, Hauff was an extraordinarily prolific writer. The freshness...

According to the Preface: "This book is a commentary on The Ring of the Niblungs, Wagner's chief work. I offer it to those enthusiastic admirers of Wagner who are unable to follow his ideas, and do not in the least understand the dilemma of Wotan, though they are filled with indignation at the irreverence...

Biography of the great author. According to Wikipedia: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German writer. George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature,...

According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (25 October 1800 28 December 1859) was a nineteenth-century English poet, historian and Whig politician and Member of Parliament for Edinburgh. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history." The "active"...

This file includes: Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey, Old Christmas, Bracebridge Hall, The Crayon Papers, Knickerbocker's History of New York, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, and Tales of a Traveller. According to Wikipedia: "Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 November 28, 1859) was an American author,...

First published in 1845. "Gleaned from actual obsrvation and experience during a residence of seven years in that interesting colony." The book begins: "These sketches of the Backwoods of New Brunswick are intended to illustrate the individual and national characteristics of the settlers, as displayed...

First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately,...

According to Wikipedia: "Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 - May 12, 1963) was an American Christian pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor. For his work, he received two honorary doctorate degrees. Hailing from a tiny farming community in western La...

"When the lapse of time and accumulation of fresh material suggested the need of a new and revised edition of Mr. Hezekiah Butterworth's _Story of the Hymns_, which had been a popular text book on that subject for nearly a generation, the publishers requested him to prepare such a work, reviewing the...

According to Wikipedia: "Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German Reformer Martin Luther. Luther's efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched the Protestant Reformation and, through the reactions...

Pirate history, first published in 1895. "CHRISTOPHER SUTTON, JOHN DAWSON, THE SEÑOR DON SANCHEZ DEL CASTILLO DE CASTELAÑA AND MOLL DAWSON. Their Wicked Conspiracy, and a True Account of their Travels and Adventures. THE MARRIAGE OF MOLL DAWSON BY SINFUL MEANS TO A WORTHY GENTLEMAN OF MERIT; HER FALL,...

First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately,...

"The purpose of this volume is to offer to the English reader a short study of the lyric drama in Italy prior to the birth of opera, and to note in its history the growth of the artistic elements and influences which finally led the Florentine reformers to resort to the ancient drama in their search...