Samizdat Express: 2864 books

According to Wikipedia: "Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 November 15, 1932) was an African-American author, essayist and political activist, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity…. Chesnutt's stories were more complex than those...

This file includes: The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'; Carnacki, the Ghost Finder; The Ghost Pirates; The House on the Borderland; and The Night Land. According to Wikipedia: "William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays,...

According to Wikipedia: "William Hope Hodgson (November 15, 1877 April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career...

Collection of 100 classic short stories, selected for use in middle school and high school. These include: The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche by Apuleius, Present at a Hanging and Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce, The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman, The Man Without a Country by Hale, The Wonderful...

Classic adventure novel. According to Wikipedia: "Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine. Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, and journalist, but his most notable work was that that he performed as author...

Little-known novel by the author of Middlemarch. According to Wikipedia: "Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (1819 1880), better known by her pen name, George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for...

Two classic 19th-century suspense novels by Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde and The Master of Ballantrae.

According to Wikipedia: "Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, (7 September 1876 - 22 June 1938) was an Australian poet famous for his humorous poems, especially "The Sentimental Bloke", published in the early 20th century."

This collection includes: Bat Wing, Brood of the Witch-Queen, Dope, Fire-Tongue, The Golden Scorpion, The Green Eyes of Bast, The Orchard of Tears, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, The Sins of Severac Bablon, Tales of Chinatown, and The Yellow Claw. According to Wikipedia: "Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward...

This file includes the English verse translation by Lewis Campbell of all seven extant Sophocles plays: Antigone, Aias. King Oedipus, Electra, The Tracinian Maidens, Philoctetes, and Oedippus at Colonos. According to Wikipedia: "Sophocles( c. 496 BC-406 BC) was the second of the three ancient...

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;...

According to Wikipedia: "John Jeffery Farnol (10 February 1878 9 August 1952), was an English author, known for his many romantic novels, some formulaic and set in the English Regency period, and swashbucklers. He with Georgette Heyer founded the Regency romantic genre... The success of his early...

According to Wikipedia: "Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 10 April 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. His poetry was highly controversial in its day, much of it containing recurring themes of sadomasochism, death-wish, lesbianism and irreligion."

According to Wikipedia: "William George Gilbert Patten (October 25, 1866 - January 16, 1945) was a writer of dime novels and is best known as author of the Frank Merriwell stories, with the pen name Burt L. Standish…. He was a writer of dime novels. His first published dime novel was The Diamond Sport;...