Samizdat Express: 2864 books

According to Wikipedia: "Harriet Martineau (June 12, 1802 June 27, 1876) was born and attended school in England. She wrote more than 50 books and is significant to sociologists today because of her argument that "When one studies a society, one must focus on all its aspects, including key political,...

First published in 1824. "We live in a day when the most distant parts of the earth are opening as the sphere of Missionary labours. The state of the heathen world is becoming better known, and the sympathy of British Christians has been awakened, in zealous endeavours to evangelize and soothe its sorrows.In...

According to Wikipedia: "Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book...

This file includes: The Emperor of Portugalia, Invisible Links, Jerusalem, The Treasure, and The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. According to Wikipedia: "Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (20 November 1858 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature,...

According to Wikipedia: "Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1845 July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years....

This book covers Faustina Bordoni, Catarina Garielli, Sophie Arnould, Elizabeth Billington, Angelica Catalani, Giuiditta Pasta, and Henrietta Sontag.

According to Wikipedia: "Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (18 October 1777 21 November 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him."

Classic short story. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson ( 1850 - 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a...

This file includes: The Perfect Wagnerite: a Commenary on the Niblung's Ring (1898); Maxims for Revolutionists (1903); Treatise on Parents and Children (1910); and The Revolutionist's Handbook. According to Wikipedia: "George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a...

One of the greatest love stories of all time. According to Wikipedia: "Daphnis and Chloe is the only known work of the 2nd century AD Greek novelist and romancer Longus. It is set on the isle of Lesbos during the 2nd century AD, which is also assumed to be the author's home... Daphnis and Chloe,...

Classic Roman comedy play. With active table of contents. According to Wikipedia, "Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor) is a play written by Publius Terentius Afer, known in English as Terence, a dramatist of the Roman Republic. The play has presented academics with some problems. Firstly it is not...

Two classic Roman comedies. According to Wikipedia, "Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254184 BC), commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are among the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature. Plautus wrote around 52 plays, which were released between...

Five-act play, first published in 1773. According to Wikipedia: "Mercy Otis Warren (September 14, [September 25, New Style][1] 1728 October 19, 1814) was a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution. In the eighteenth century, topics such as politics and war were thought to be the...

According to Wikipedia: "Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany. It is widely believed that, but for his early death,...