Samizdat Express: 2864 books

Cover of The Avalanche
by Gertrude Atherton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 June 14, 1948) was an American writer…. She eloped with George H.B. Atherton when she was only 19, and had two children. Her husband discouraged her writing; and the serial publication of her first novel, The Randolphs of Redwoods...
Cover of Philosophy and Religion
by Hastings Rashdall
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Hastings Rashdall (1858 1924) was an English philosopher who expounded a theory known as ideal utilitarianism. Son of an Anglican priest, he was educated at Harrow and received a scholarship for New College, Oxford. After short tenures at St David's University College and University...
Cover of The Guardian Angel
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 October 7, 1894) was an American physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer. During his lifetime, he was one of the best regarded poets of the 19th century and is considered a member of the Fireside Poets."
Cover of Pages from an Old Volume of Life
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 October 7, 1894) was an American physician and professor who also achieved fame as a writer. During his lifetime, he was one of the best regarded poets of the 19th century and is considered a member of the Fireside Poets."
Cover of Classics of Judaism, 11 great books of Jewish wisdom in a single file
by Moses Maimonides, Ginzberg, Louis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This file includes 11 books: Medieval Hebrew (featuring The Midrash and medieval collections of Jewish biblical lore and legend), Hebraic Literature (translations from the Talmud, Midrashim, and KabbalaTales and Maxims from the Midrash by Samuel Rapaport, The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirke Abot),...
Cover of The Geography of Strabo
by Strabo
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Strabo (64/63 BC c. AD 24), was a Greek geographer, philosopher and historian. Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in Pontus (modern Amasya, Turkey), a city that he said was situated the approximate equivalent of 75 km from the Black Sea. Pontus had recently...
Cover of Forty-one Thieves: A Tale of California
by Angelo Hall
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Popular novel, first published in 1919.
Cover of Rhymes a la Mode (in the original French)
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic verse. According to Wikipedia: "Andrew Lang (March 31, 1844, Selkirk - July 20, 1912, Banchory, Kincardineshire) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales."
Cover of Polyeucte, a play in English translation
by Pierre Corneille
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606 October 1, 1684) was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth Century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produced plays for nearly forty years."
Cover of The Cid, in English translation
by Pierre Corneille
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606 October 1, 1684) was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth Century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produced plays for nearly forty years."
Cover of Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians chapters I to V
by Alexander MacLaren
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Christian Classics Ethereal Library: "Alexander MacLaren - 1826-1910), Baptist preacher and expositor Maclaren was born in Glasgow on February 11, 1826, and died in Manchester on May 5, 1910. He had been for almost sixty-five years a minister, entirely devoted to his calling. He lived...
Cover of Prayers Written at Vailima and a Lowden Sabbath Morn
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Very short collection of short prayers written in Samoa. 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...
Cover of The Natural History of Selborne, both volumes (1790)
by Gilbert White
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Natural history of a town in England, first published in 1790. According to Wikipedia: "Gilbert White FRS (18 July 1720 26 June 1793) was a pioneering English naturalist and ornithologist… White is best known for his The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789). This was a compilation of...
Cover of The Satyricon
by Petronius
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus Petronius. As with the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, classical...
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