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Descriptions of our offerings.
Author DVD -- 2609 books from our 71 Author CDs, organized the same way those CDs are. It sells for $69. Table of Contents.
Books
of the Western Canon: Great Books by Essential Authors is based
on the lists of "great books and essential authors" in the appendixes of
"The Western Canon" by Harold Bloom. Here we provide the full-text of many
of the books he recommends, from the Theocratic, Aristocratic, and Democratic
Ages (from the dawn of civilization up through the end of World War I),
organized the way he presents them: 797 books by 204 authors. Many of these
books would be very hard to find and very costly in printed form. Complete
table of Contents
Books
Behind the Classics Illustrated ® Comics. Back in
the 1950s I was an avid reader and collector of Classics Illustrated ®
comic books. I bought every one I could find in stores, got a monthly subscription,
and ordered everything else from the publisher as back issues. And I revered
the original books honored by inclusion -- those were the true "classics";
and went out of my way to buy them and read them. About ten years ago,
when I realized that the paper was deteriorating and that the comics would
all turn to dust before my grandchildren could enjoy them, I sold the collection
through Ebay. Now it finally occurred to me that all but 26 of the original
168 classics are now in the public domain and available in electronic form.
Here I have assembled all those onto a single CD. (® Registered Trademark
of the Frawley Corporation.)
Table of Contents
Books
from the Harvard Classics ® Collection is
based on the table of contents of the Harvard Classics ® set of books
AKA Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf (a 51-volume collection of great works)
first published in 1909 plus the Harvard Classics ® Shelf of Fiction
(a separate 20-volume collection) first published in 1917. Both those
collections were edited by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot
(1834-1926). This CD contains electronic versions of the great majority,
but not all of the works selected by Dr. Eliot. Books originally
written in languages other than English appear here in English translation,
but often not the same translations as the original. The Table of
Contents shows the organization by volume of the original Harvard Classics
® collection. The folders/directories are organized by author.
All these books are in plain text format. Table
of Contents
The Harvard Classics ® a Registered Trademark of the President
and Fellows of Harvard College.
Books
from the Great Books of the Western World ® Collection
is based on the table of contents of the 54-volume first edition published
by Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. in 1952. This CD contains electronic versions
of about two thirds of the works in that printed book collection. The Table
of Contents shows the organization by volume of the original collection.
The folders/directories are organized by author.Books originally written
in languages other than English appear on the CD in English translation,
but often not the same translation as the printed collection. Of the 54
volumes, this CD contains the complete or nearly complete contents of 29
volumes and partial contents of 14 volumes. It omits the contents
of 11 volumes. Omissions are noted in the Table of Contents in brackets
and with the word "unavailable". All these books are in plain text form,
except one by Euclid which is in Acrobat (.pdf) to show the illustrations.
Table of Contents
Great Books of the Western World ® and Britannica ®
are Trademarks of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
In a good year, I read about
100 books. Our Year
of Reading CD contains 100 classic books that I'd recommend.
Most of these are relatively short. Many are collections of short stories
and poetry. I've avoided plays and reference books, aiming for books that
should work well for people who listen to books (using text-to-voice conversion
programs) rather than reading them on a computer screen. Table
of Contents
At
the request of scholars in the field, I am making the rare and very useful
Woodhouse
English-Greek Dictionary available on CD. The Greek characters
mean that "plain-text" isn't an option for this book. So I did the
CD version as a series of images of the pages of the original book, with
a linked index page that lists all the English words that are defined.
This means that you can search or browse through the index page to find
the word you want and then click to see an image of the original book page
with that word with the ancient Greek equivalents. Please note that since
the heart of the work is in the form of images, unfortunately, this CD
version will not be useful for the blind. Sample
the look-and-feel of this book on CD
Great AuthorsAt times it feels like I'm in the bread business. Some people prefer their bread unsliced; others like it sliced this way or that. Now I'm slicing it by "author." The books on these CDs already appear on our "Classic Collections" (American Literature, British Literature, World Literature...) But if you are interested in the works of a single great author, you can now get them on a single CD for $12 directly from us.
This CD, with 24 books, includes works by and about Napoleon
Bonaparte, most in English, but some in French. Complete
Table of Contents
17 books by and about George
Washington. $12 Complete
Table of Contents
4 books by and about Thomas
Jefferson. $12 Complete
Table of Contents
25 books by and about Abraham
Lincoln. $12 Complete
Table of Contents
17 books by and about Theodore
Roosevelt. $12 Complete
Table of Contents
Old
Friends, selected by Mary Petrelli. Mary explains, "These are
books that I discovered from the second grade on through high school, and
I love them as much today as I did when I first read them. Each book is
the key to some very happy memories." Complete
table of contents
We currently have seven Classic Collections, selling for $29 each directly from us, and $49 from stores like Amazon:
This Classical
Music Book CD includes over 160 libretti of operas and operettas, and
lyrics of hundreds of lieder/songs in their original languages, plus books
about classical music, biographies of composers, and composer correspondence
all in English. Complete
table of contents
What do Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jack London, Edith Wharton, Walt
Whitman, and Zane have in common? Their works are all on the same American
Literature 2-CD set, with 1740 books, in plain text, and with
software that lets you listen as well as read. Complete
table of contents
What
do Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Daniel
Defoe, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Joseph Conrad have in common? Their works
are all on the same British
Literature 3-CD set, with 2815 books, in plain text and with
software that lets you listen as well as read. Complete
table of contents
What
do Louisa Mae Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Lewis Carroll, Frank Baum,
Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Eleanor Porter have in common? Their works are
on the same Children's
Book CD, with 1077 classic children's books, in plain text,
Complete
table of contents
What do Plutarch, Gibbon, Proudhon, Malthus, Houdini, Frazier, Jefferson,
Darwin, Veblen, Dewey, and Plato have in common? Their works are
all on the same Non-Fiction
3-CD set, with 3193 books. Complete
table of contents
What do William James, Mohammed, Josephus, Moses, Martin Luther, Confucius,
Mary Baker Eddy, and John Bunyan have in common? They are all on the same
Religion
CD, with 782 books, in plain text, with software that lets
you listen as well as read. Complete
table of contents
What do Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Machiavelli, Tasso, Luther, Ibsen,
and Goethe have in common? They are all on the same World
Literature 2 CD set with 2262 books, in plain text. Complete
table of contents World
Literature in English only, 944 books
Theme Collections, selling for $19 each directly from us
Three
of the books on this
CD are non-fiction works about motion pictures. The other 13
books are fiction with a motion picture theme. All were published before
1923 -- the era of the silent movie. Table
of Contents
The 35 books on this Mathematics
and Physics CD include works by such physicists as Einstein,
Maxwell, Faraday, Lorentz and Michelson; and 19th century books on algebra,
number theory, and logic. Ten of the books are illustrated (in html or
pdf format). Table of Contents
Art
and Architecture includes 97 books, 32 of which are illustrated (in
html format), From Vitruvius to Rembrandt and Raphael, these books are
organized into the following sectins: Art in General, Theory of Art and
Taste in Art, Art by Country and Period and Style and Subject, Art by Medium,
Artists, and Architecture.
Table
of Contents
Early
Astronomy, with 18 books, all published before 1923, includes
history and theory, as well as practical information for amateurs/hobbyists.
Complete
Table of Contents
Early
Railroads, with 32 books, covers the history and technology
of railroading, and also includes related fiction. Table
of Contents
Early
Aircraft, with 32 books, covers the history and technology
of flight, as well as fiction by such authors as Jules Verne. Table
of Contents
Early
Economics and Business contains 53 classic books on economics
and business, including works by Adam Smith, Marx, Engels, and Henry Ford.
Table
of Contents
Early
Geology and Geography, with 28 books includes Herodotus and
Marco Polo, as well as Sir Charles Lyell. Table
of Contents
Early
Medicine and Health contains 69 classic books about medicine
and health, including "Gilbertus Angelicus: Medicine of the 13th Century"
by Henry Handerson, "Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine" by George Gould
and Walter Pyle, Cobb's "Anatomy", "Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured", "
The Royal Road to Health" by Charles A. Tyrrell, "Practical Physiology"
by Albert Blaisdell, "The Evolution of Modern Medicine" by William Osler,
and "Notes on Nursing" by Florence Nightingale.
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Early
Law and Crime contains 87 public domain books -- 47 "non-fiction"
books about Crime and 40 books about Law. The "crime" includes Celebrated
Crimes by Alexandre Dumas (18 books in a single file), A Book of Remarkable
Criminals by H.B. Irving, Courts and Criminals by Arthur Train, Crime and
Its Causes by William Morrison, Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence
Darrow, Criminal Psychology by Hans Gross, Criminal Sociology and The Positive
School of Criminology by Enrico Ferri, Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals
(1735), London's Underword by Thomas Holmes, and True Stories of Crime
by Arthur Train. The "law" includes The Common Law and The Path of Law
by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., An Essay on Trial by Jury by Lysander Spooner,
The Oldest Code of Laws in the World by Hammurabi, The Bouvier Law Dictionary,
and The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot.
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Fairy
Tales and Folk Tales contains 67 collections of fairy tales
and folk tales (including all the Andrew Lang fairy books), plus 5 books
about fairy and folk tales. By "fairy tales" I mean story for the sake
of story, usually with magical content, traditionally told to children.
I also include tales associated with particular countries or cultures that
might have some anthropological value. And in addition to story collections,
I include a few books about fairy tales and folk tales. I avoid myths (which
border on religion) and legends (which border on history), but the borderlines
are fuzzy.
Buy the Fairy Tales and Folk Tales CD here using PayPal --
Old
New England CD, with 589 books, includes history, travel experience
books, philosophy (William James and George Santayana), religion (Mary
Baker Eddy), nature, periodicals (like The Atlantic Monthly), and
and the works of authors who lived in New England, such as Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Louisa Mae Alcott, Henry James, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson,
Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark
Twain, and Mercy Otis Warren. Table of
Contents
Old
New York, with 327 books, includes history, travel guide books,
travel experience books, books about the building of the New York Subway
and railway tunnels, the periodicals Knickerbocker and Punchinello, and
the works of authors who lived in New York, such as Horatio Alger, James
Fenimore Cooper, O. Henry, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton,
and Walt Whitman. Table
of Contents
The
Old Mid-West, with 357 books, includes history as well as the
works of authors who lived in the Mid-West, such as Altsheler, Bierce,
Curwood, Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Grey, Norris, Tarkington, and Twain.
Table of Contents
Old
New England CD, with 589 books, includes history, travel experience
books, philosophy (William James and George Santayana), religion (Mary
Baker Eddy), nature, periodicals (like The Atlantic Monthly), and
and the works of authors who lived in New England, such as Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Louisa Mae Alcott, Henry James, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson,
Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark
Twain, and Mercy Otis Warren. Table of Contents
The works of Plutarch,
including his complete Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, translated
by Arthur Clough and his Essays and Miscellanies. Complete
Table of Contents
Works of Charles
Darwin, 16 books by Darwin (including the first and sixth editions
of The Origin of the Species) and 7 books about him (including 4 volumes
of his letters). Table
of Contents
Edmund
Burke, including his complete 12 volume "works". Table
of Contents
The
World
War I CD includes 187 books of history, fiction, and poetry,
covering all aspects of the war. Complete
Table of Contents
Hobbies:
Crafts, Sports, Fishing, Gardening, Bird Watching, and Games
with 65 books, includes such diverse activities as needlework, fencing,
lawn tennis, skiing, wild flowers, and chess. Table
of Contents
English
Romantic Poets, with 56 books, includes books by and about
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron. Table
of Contents
Language
and Linguistics includes 39 books, covering English,
Latin, Greek, Esperanto, and other languages from around the world. Complete
Table of Contents
Early
Anthropology and Archaeology includes 101 books, with
a particularly strong collection on Native Americans (52 books). Complete
Table of Contents
The Evolution CD, with 93 books, includes Forerunners of Evolution,
Creationism (Opponents of Evolution), and Broad Applications of Evolution
(including Social Darwinism and Eugenics), with works by Darwin, Thomas
Huxley, Fabre, Alfred Wallace, Humboldt, and others. Complete
Table of Contents
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Education,with
60 books, includes books about education; education-oriented philosophy,
biography, autobiography, and fiction; and child rearing. Table
of Contents
Books
about Books (AKA Libraries, Librarians and other Book Lovers,
with 80 books, includes books specifically about libraries and librarians
as well as books by "lovers of books" (mainly essays about books and authors),
such as Aristotle, Bacon, Carlyle, Emerson, Howell, Lang, Montaigne, and
Warner. Complete Table
of Contents
This Annie
and James Fields CD, with 172 books, includes "Authors and
Friends" by Annie Fields and "Yesterdays with Authors" by her husband,
the publisher James Fields, as well as works by the authors discussed in
those books. That means the works of: Longfellow, Emerson, Oliver Wendell
Holmes Sr., Harriet Beecher Stowe, Whittier, Tennyson, Thackeray, Hawthorne,
Dickens, Wordsworth, Miss Mitford, and Barry Cornwall. Table
of Contents
The 203 books on Emerson's
Representative Men include Emerson's biographical essays "Representataive
Men", plus other works by Emerson, plus works by and about the individuals
he focuses on: Plato, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Swedenborg, Goethe, and Napoleon.
Table
of Contents
Native
American contains 88 books, organized by eastern America, western
America, archaeology and anthropology, works of Charles Eastman and Zitkala-Sa,
exploration expeditions and pioneer experiences in Indian territory, and
fiction and poetry. Table
of Contents
Black
Americans and Slavery contains 106 books, including Black History,
the History of Slavery, works by Black Authors (such as Charles Chesnutt,
Frances Harper, and Frederick Douglass), and fiction about the Black experience.
Table of Contents
Animalscontains
213 books relating to animals, including such classics as Bambi, Black
Beauty, Moby Dick, The Call of the Wild, and works of Ernest Thompson Seton,
covering Pets, Farm Animals, Wild Animals and Hunting, Jungle Creatures,
Insects, Birds, Fish, Fairy Tales/Children's Stories, and Mythic Creatures.
Table
of Contents
The
Sea and Ships contains 259 books, including fiction by such authors
as Conrad, Melville, and London; stories for children; history; religion/myth/legend;
and books about shipwrecks, sea creatures, pirates, and floods. Table
of Contents
The
519 books on this Christian
Religion CD include The Bible, books about the Bible, church
history, saints and fathers, Joan of Arc; Catholic, Lutheran, Mormon, and
Moravian churches; Jesuit pioneers, Milton, Bunyan, Mary Baker Eddy, Ellen
White, and 18th and 19th century Christian Writings. Complete
Table of Contents
The
67 books on this Jewish
Religion CD include: The Tanach (Jewish Bible), The Babylonian
Talmud (20 volumes), The Midrash, The Kaballah, Jewish history, and the
works of Josephus. Complete
Table of Contents
The
97 books on this Occult
CD include works by Blavatsky, Hermes Trismegistus, and Paracelsus, plus
the Kaballah, Telling Fortunes by Tea Leaves, Lives of the Necromancers,
and Houdini's Miracle Mongers. Complete
Table of Contents
Political
Science: Theory and Practice, with 88 books, includes classics
of theory, plus works of history with a theoretical bent, plus books about
national constitutions and the governments based on them, plus documents
dealing with the purpose, structure and history about the United Nations.
To provide contemporary global context, it also includes the 2005 CIA World
Factbook. Complete Table
of Contents
From
Plato and Confucius to Kant and Hegel, this CD contains the full text of
168 classic works of Philosophy.
Contents
From
Louisa Mae Alcott to Jane Austen to the Bronte sisters to George Eliot
to Willa Cather to Edith Wharton, this CD, intended for Windows PCs, contains
527 books by, for, and about Women.Contents
From
proper behavior, to how to raise a child, to how to fight a duel, this
Victoriana
CD, Intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS 10), contains
129 books of advice and etiquette and textbooks from the late 19th and
early 20th centuries. Contents
Some of the 380 books on this Victorian
Science and Technology CD (like the works of Darwin) are seminal
works on which modern science is built. Others are obsolete, quaint, and
bizarre. All provide insight into the science and technology behind the
literature and history in the late 19th and early 20th century. And some
contain unexpected nuggets of wisdom and insight. These books are in plain-text
format, organized for easy access. Contents
From
Fort Sumter to Appomattox, from Lincoln and Grant to Jefferson Davis and
Lee, this Civil
War CD, Intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS
10), contains 77 books related to the American Civil War -- both history
and fiction. Contents
From
colonial times through the Revolution and Civil War up to WWI, this CD,
Intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS 10), contains 489
U.S.
History books. Contents
From
Goethe and Schiller to Kant and Hegel, from the 30 Years War to Friedrich
II, this German CD,
contains the full text of 385 books -- history, philosophy, and fiction
in English and/or German. Complete
table of contents.
The
French
CD with 801 classic books of French history, philosophy, and literature
includes Balzac, Dumas, Zola, Verne, Flaubert, Rousseau, Gaboriau, Hugo,
Stendhal, and Voltaire. Complete
table of contents.
From
the Trojan War to King Arthur and Charlemagne, to the Hundred Years' War
and the Thirty Years' War to the American and French Revolutions to the
American Civil War to World War I, this CD contains the full text of 460
books -- history, fiction, and theory related to war.
Complete
table of contents
From Mark Twain to Abraham Lincoln to O. Henry to Gilbert and Sullivan
to Jonathan Swift to Henry Fielding to Rabelais to Jonathan Swift to Moliere
to William Shakespeare to Lucian to Oscar Wilde, this Humor
and Comedy CD has the full text of 482 books and magazine issues. Complete
table of contents
Our
Cook
Book CD contains 69 classic cook books. Complete
table of contents
Dime
Novels and Pulp Fiction, with 192 books, includes such authors
as Horatio Alger, B.M. Bower, Max Brand, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Howard Garis,
O. Henry, Charles Alden Seltzer, Garret Serviss, and Burt Standish. It
Stratemeyer Syndicate series books written under the names of Victor Appleton,
Allen Chapman, Alice Emerson, Laura Lee Hope, Margaret Penrose, Roy Rockwood,
Arthur Winfield, and Clarence Young. Table
of Contents
Short
Stories: the ultimate collection. This CD contains 3901 stories,
including collections of interwoven stories like The Arabian Nights, Canterbury
Tales, and The Decameron. Complete
Table of Contents Review
at Large Print Reviews
Our
Drama
CD contains 646 plays by 80 playwrights, including Calderon, Chekhov,
Congreve Gilbert and Sullivan, Goethe, Ibsen, Moliere, Shiller, Ben Jonson,
Kliest, Shakespeare, Synge, and Wilde, and 53 books about drama.
Complete
table of contents
Time
Travel: Classic Travel and Tourism Books contains 183 books.
These are old guidebooks for tourists and books by individual travelers
who journeyed for pleasure and then shared their observations with others
who wanted the vicarious experience or who might consider following in
their footsteps. If you plan to travel yourself, these books can help you
perceive and appreciate the layers of the past still visible in the present.
Complete
table of contents
When
Dickens was news: Magazines that first publised/reviewed authors now deemed
great contains 496 issues of 18 classic magazines. Old
magazines can give a sense of how events and literature were perceived
when they were fresh and new, without the reinterpretation of later years.
The experience can be like viewing a now famous painting when the paint
had not yet dried and the colors were bright, before familiarity and layer
after layer of interpretation and authoritative judgement had covered it
over with dulling preseratives. This colleciton includes Samuel Johnson's
Rambler and Adventurer, Addison and Steele's Spectator and Tatler, Blackwood's
Edinburgh Magazine from the 1840s, Notes and Queries 1849-1850, Mirror
of Literature 1827-1829 and 1831-1832, Punch 1890-1891, 1914, 1917, and
1919, The Atlantic Monthly 1857-1863, Bay State Monthly 1884, International
Weekly 1850, Lippincott's 1873 and 1875-1876, McClure's 1896, and Punchinello
1870. Complete table
of contents
Real
People: Biographies and Autobiographies contains the full text
of 590, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs and reminiscences,
diaries, journals, official papers, and biographical novels. Complete
table of contents
From
Plutarch and Cicero to Montaigne and Emerson, Essays
contains the full text of 170 books of essays. Complete
table of contents
360 Historical
Novels, including Dumas, Henty, Altsheler, Cooper, and other
classics. Complete
table of contents
103 books of Letters,
Correspondence, Religious Epistles, and Epistolary Novels, including
Mark Twain, Samuel Morse, Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, Robert Lewis Stevenson,
Cicero, Pliny, Anton Chekhov, George Sand, Mozart, and Wagner. Complete
table of contents
Reference
Books and Guides is an eclectic collection, both historic
and current, from Hammurabi to the Internet, with 40 books, including Bartlett's
Quotations, Emily Post's Etiquette, The 2005 CIA World Factbook, Bouvier's
Law Dictionary, Robert's Rules of Order, Internet books by Richard Seltzer,
and more. Complete table of
contents
124 books of Speeches,
Orations, Lectures, and Sermons, including Demosthenes, Cicero,
Daniel Webster, Edmund Burke, William James, Franklin Roosevelt, Mark Twain,
Thomas Huxley, Charles Kingsley, Jonathan Swift, and John Bunyan, as well
as Inaugural Addresses and State of the Union Speeches. Complete
table of contents
From
Sherlock Holmes, to The Woman in Whtie and The Phantom of the Opera, the
Detective
and Mystery CD contains 301 books, in plain-text,
Complete
table of contents
Ghost,
Horror, and Supernatural Stories, with 93 books, includes works
by Poe, LeFanu, Hodgson, Stoker, and Oscar Wilde. It covers stories about
ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures. These are
works of fiction, not myths or folklore. It also includes Gothic Novels
and books about Halloween. Table
of Contents
Fantasy
contains
235 books, including very early fantasy, such as The Odyssey, Ovid's Metamorphoses,
Rabelais, Shakespeare, and Gulliver's Travels; and 19th and early 20th
century, such as works of Bangs, Baum (Oz), Burroughs (Tarzan), Cabell,
Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle (Lost World etc.), Haggard (King solomon's
Mines etc.), Kipling, Le Fanu, MacDonald, Morris, Nesbit, Stockton, and
Jules Verne, plus A Connecticut Yankee and The Secret Garden. It
even has the contemporary fantasy satire The Lizard of Oz by Seltzer. Table
of Contents
Myth,
Legend, Saga and Epic --186 books, including Gilgamesh, Beowulf,
Arabian Nights (complete), tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the
Round Table, Milton, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Song of Roland,
Legends of Charlemage, Faust, Greek mythology, Homer, Dante's Divine Comedy,
Ariosto, Tasso, Virgil, Norse sagas, Hindu epics, Native American myths
and legends, The Mabinogion, The Lay of the Cid, and even War and Peace
and Don Quixote. Table of
Contents
Short
Stories: the ultimate collection. Intended for use with Windows
PCs and recent Macs (OS 10), this CD contains 2627 stories, plus collections
of interwoven stories like The Arabian Nights, Canterbury Tales, and The
Decameron. Complete
Table of Contents
From the Oregon Trail to Jack London's tales of the Alaskan frontier, the
American
West in History and Fiction CD contains 377 books, in plain
text, Complete table of contents
What do Mercy Otis Warren, Thomas Jefferson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Samuel
Adams, and Thomas Paine have in common? They all wrote about the American
Revolution and/or the Early Republic and their works are on the same American
Revolution CD, in plain text, with software that lets you listen
as well as read. Complete
table of contents
Richard
Burton's Arabian Nights and Victorian Books of Exploration and Travel in
Asia and Africa on CD
brings together 127 rare and fascinating books dealing with the Arab
world, Asia, and Africa, as witnessed by Victorian-age Europeans, including
the 16 volumes of Richard Burton's monumental translation of The Arabian
Nights, with all his candid, racy footnotes, packed with anthropological
and cultural information. Complete
table of contents
What do Dickinson, Dante, Shakespeare, and Browning have in common? Their
works are on the same Poetry
CD, together with 571 books of poetry by 231 poets, plus anthologies,
biographies, and criticism. Complete
table of contents
From
Dante, Ariosto and Boccaccio to Casanova, Cellini, Maciavelli, and Tasso;
from Julius Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil to Apuleius and Marcus Arelius;
this Italian
and Roman CD, Intended for use with Windows PCs and recent
Macs (OS 10), contains the full text of 191 books -- literature and history
from and about Italy and Rome, sometimes in the original Italian and Latin,
and sometimes in English translation. These books are in plain-text format,
organized for easy access. For context, it also includes the 2005 CIA World
Factbook. Complete table
of contents
The Irish CD
contains
the full text of 141 books, both history and literature. The literature
includes ancient tales plus such authors as Oliver Goldsmigth, Lady Gregory,
Le Fanu, George Moore, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, Synge, and Oscar Wilde.
Complete
table of contents.
The
Scottish
CD contains the full text of 332 books, covering history, literature,
religion, philosophy, and science. The literature includes periodicals
(The Edinburgh Review and the Chambers Edinburgh Review) and such authors
as Boswell, Burns, Carlyle, De Quincey, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lang, Saki,
Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Complete
Table of Contents
Scandinavia/Nordiccovers
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland, with 349 books, including
62 books in English (Scandinavian literature in translation, plus history,
sociology, travel, etc.), 15 books in Danish, 2 in Icelandic, 233 in Finnish,
8 in Norwegian, and 29 in Swedish. Complete
Table of Contents
Wales,
with 24 books, includes books originally written in English (such as the
works of Matthew Arnold), Welsh literature in English translation,
literature in Welsh, and history. Complete
Table of Contents
Portuguese:
Literature and History, with 48 books, consists mainly of literature
in the Portuguese language, with a few books in English translation. Complete
Table of Contents
The
Philippine
CD contains the full text of 64 books about the Philippines
and/or by Filipinos, including history, literature, and anthropology. Most
of the books are in English. A few are in Spanish or Tagalog. For context
it also includes the 2005 CIA World Factbook. Complete
table of contents
The
Canadian Literature and History CD contains the full text of
200 books about Canada and/or by Canadians, in plain text, plus the 2005
CIA World Factbook. Complete
table of contents
The
Australian Literature and History CD contains the full text
of 73 books about Australia and/or by Australians, in plain text, plus
the 2005 CIA World Factbook. Complete
table of contents
Cold
War Context and Aftermath contains the full text of 28 "Country
Studies" published by the Federal Research Division of the Libary of Congress
between 1987 and 1996, including the Soviet Union and the countries it
spawned, and Communist countries of Europe and Communist countries of Asia.
In addition, it contains: Books and articles about the Cold War published
by the Center for the Study of Intelligence, of the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA), the 2005 edition of the CIA World Factbook, an interlinked
set of hundreds of HTML documents, with detailed up-to-date reference information
on every country in the world, with images of maps and flags; and an enormous
collection of books related to Communist countries and the historical,
political, and cultural context of the Cold War phenomenon: Russian, German,
and Chinese History; Documents of US History Related to the Cold War; NATO
Documents; UN Documents; and 425 classic works of philosophy, economics,
political science, sociology and literature. Complete
Table of Contents
British
History, Historical Novels, and Historical Plays contains the
full text of 214 books -- British history, historical novels, and historical
plays. It covers from Roman times up through the end of World War I, and
also includes Shakespeare's historical plays, historical novels by G.A.
Henty, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Whistler, and others, and even versions
of the King Arthur legends. Complete
Table of Contents
The
Blindness CD, with 30 books, includes books written by the
blind (Homer, Milton, and Helen Keller), as well as fiction with blind
characters. Complete
Table of Contents
Other
Worlds: Old Science Fiction, Time Dislocation, Alternate History, and Utopia
includes Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, William Hope Hodgson, Frankenstein,
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Connecticut Yankee. It also includes
such forerunners of Science Fiction as the Odyssey, the Arabian Nights,
Sir John Mandeville, the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and Gulliver's
Travels; and such utopian works as Plato's Republic, More's Utopia, Bacon's
New Atlantis, Campanella's City of the Sea, Harrington's Commonwealth of
Oceania, d Morris' News from Nowhere, Butler's Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited,
and Bellamy's Looking Backward. Complete
Table of Contents
Christmas
Books and Stories includes 46 books and 21 stories, including
works by Dickens, Baum, O. Henry, Washington Irving, Saki, ""Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Thackeray, and Booth Tarkington. Complete
Table of Contents
Our Shipwrecked
and Marooned CD includes 46 books. In assembling this collection,
we interpreted "shipwrecked" and "marooned" very broadly, including Xenophon's
Anabasis, in which an Athenian army is "marooned" in Persia, and couple
of books that are more mutiny than shipwreck. Complete
Table of Contents
Capture,
Imprisonment, and Escape, with 52 books and 11 short pieces,
includes including children's stories, adventure fiction, and biographical/historical
works. Here you'll find everything from Prometheus Bound and The Count
of Monte Cristo, to Andersonville and the Velveteen Rabbit. Complete
Table of Contents
Brook
Farm: an American Attempt at Utopia, with 53 books, contains
books about Brook Farm (Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John
Thomas Codman and My Friends at Brook Farm by Jon Van Der See Sears) as
well as works by and about members (Hawthorne) and friends/visitors (Margaret
Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau). Complete
Table of Contents
The
Messages and Papers of the Presidents compiled by Congressman
James Richardson of Tennessee includes the official documents of all 25
US presidents from George Washington to Theodore Roosevelt. It was originally
published in 1897, with additions covering McKinley and Roosevelt published
in 1902 and 1904. Complete
Table of Contents
Psychology
Before Freud, with 42 books, covers such topics as criminal
psychology, popular delusions, the creative process, emotions, psychology
of business, mental life of monkeys, pathological lying, the witchcraft
delusion, psychology of insects, dreams, and stammering. $12 Complete
Table of Contents
Slave
Narratives and Autobiographies, with 34 books, is a collection
of first-hand accounts of life under slavery, including "Slave Narratives"
compiled by the US Government during the depression, as part of the Federal
Writers' Project, based on interviews with former slaves; and also autobiographies
by former slaves. Complete
Table of Contents
Troy,
with 32 books about or inspired by the Trojan War, includes works by Homer,
Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Virgil, Shakespeare, Goethe, Lessing,
Kleist, and Hawthorne. Complete
Table of Contents
"The
American Southwest (Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico): history,
nature, and fiction" contains the text of 28 books. Complete
Table of Contents
Sociology
includes 84 books of that cover Theory; the Role of Women; the Role of
Black Americans; Hygiene, Birth Control, and Sex; the Salvation Army; and
Socialism, with books by Jane Addams, Gustave le Bon, Thomas Malthus, W.E.B.
Du Bois, Charles Mackay, and many others. Complete
Table of Contents
California
includes 45 books, with history (with , fiction, nature, and reminiscences,
by such authors as John Muir and Frank Norris. 15 of the books deal with
San Francisco, and two cover the Donner tragedy. Complete
Table of Contents
5 Period Collection CDs -- Books Organized by Time Period
This
Medieval/Renaissance CD, includes 437 works of history and
literature written in and about Medieval times and the Renaissance (roughly
476 to 1500). Table of
Contents
This
Eighteenth Century CD, with 539 works of history and literature
written in and about the 18th century, covers the American and French Revolutions
and includes works by Addison, Johnson, Boswell, Pope, Burke, Fielding,
Congreve, Defoe, Hume, Smollett, Sheridan, Sterne, Rousseau, Voltaire,
Goethe, Schiller, Kant, Swift, Casanova, and Scott. Table
of Contents
This
Seventeenth Century CD, with 359 works of history and literature
written in and about the 17th century, includes works of Addison, Bunyan,
Congreve, Defoe, Dryden, Shakespeare, Locke, Milton, Pepys, Descartes,
Dumas (Three Musketeers Saga), Moliere, Spinoza, Cervantes, and Calderon.
Table
of Contents
This
Sixteenth Century CD, with 300 works of history and literature
written in and about the 16th century, includes works of Marlowe, More,
Shakespeare, Spenser, Montaigne, Rabelais, Luther, Paracelsus, Durer, Ariosto,
Machiavelli, Tasso, Erasmus, and Cervantes. Complete
Table of Contents
The
Ancient World CD includes 623 works of history, literature,
religion, and philosophy written before the Fall of the Western Roman Empire
or with that period as its subject (most in translation, some in Latin),
in plain text. Complete
table of contents
Latin
from All Time Periods, with 107 books, inccludes books abou
the Latin Language and books in Latin and their English translations (when
available). Table of Contents
We also have Writers' Showcase CDs with contemporary works for $29 directly from us and $39 from stores like Amazon:
Everything
But the Internet gathers the complete non-Internet works of
Richard Seltzer on CD, in plain text, with software that lets you listen
as well as read. It includes: The Name of Hero, Ethiopia Through Russian
Eyes, The Lizard of Oz, Without a Myth, Spit and Polish, Mercy, Rights
Crossing, short stories, articles, book reviews, and poems. Complete
table of contents
My
Internet: a Personal View of Internet Business Opportunities
by Richard Seltzer, on CD, includes four books, 162 articles, and 49 newsletter
issues that will inspire you and provide the practical information you
need to build your own personal Web site or Internet-based business, helping
you to become a player in this new business environment. Complete
table of contents
And we have six World Awareness CDs for $29 directly from us and $49 at book stores like Amazon:
Spain/Portugal/Latin
America: Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, Domican
Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela. Historical
backgroudn and context for understanding today's news. This CD contains
the full text of 21 "
"Country Studies" published by the Federal Research Division of the
Library of Congress. Each country study is presented as a single document,
in plain text form -- easy to read, to print, and to search (rather than
as a collection of over 100 separate documents for each book). In addition,
we include: The 2005 edition of the CIA World Factbook, an
interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents, with detailed up-to-date
reference information on every country in the world, with images of maps
and flags; and 126 classic books of literature, history, science, and religion
related to the region (even a cook book).
South
Asia includes
Afghanistan, Bengladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanamar
(Burma), Nepal, Paksitan, Singapore, Sri Landka (Ceylon), Thailand, and
Vietnam. This CD includes 193 classic works of fiction, history and religion,
plus 3 country studies and the CIA World Factbook. The vast majority of
the works relate to India. Complete
Table of Contents
This China CD
contains 67 classic works of fiction, history, and religion, plus two country
studies. Complete Table
of Contents
This Japan CD
contains 32 classic works of fiction, history, and religion, plus the Japan
Country Study, and the CIA World Factbook. Complete
Table of Contents
Russian:
Literature and History (AKA -- Countries of the former Soviet
Union), with 125 books includes all the great classics (like War and Peace)
in English translation. Complete Table of
Contents
Africa
on CD: Algeria, Angola, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory
Coast, Libya, Madagascar, Mauriania, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan,
Uganda, and Zaire. Historical background and context for understanding
today's news. This CD contains the full text of 16 "Country Studies
published by the Federal Research Division of the Libary of Congress.
Each country study is presented as a single document, in plain text form
-- easy to read, to print, and to search (rather than as a collection of
over 100 separate documents for each book). The tables in the appendix
of each book are presented as html documents. In addition, we include:
The 2005 edition of the CIA World Factbook, an interlinked
set of hundreds of HTML documents, with detailed up-to-date reference information
on every country in the world, with images of maps and flags; and 96 other
classic books about Africa.. Complete
table of contents Free sample: Ethiopia,
a Country Study.
The
Middle East -- Context for Conflict: Iraq, Iran, Israel, Syria, Lebanon,
Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the Persian Gulf States. Historical
background and context for understanding today's news. This CD contains
the full text of 11 "Country Studies" published by the Federal Research
Division of the Library of Congress. Each country study is presented as
a single document, plain text form -- easy to read, to print, and to search
(rather than as a collection of over 100 separate documents for each book,
that you could find on the Web). The tables in the appendix of each book
are presented as html documents. In addition, we include: The 2005
edition of the CIA World Factbook, an interlinked set of hundreds
of HTML documents, with detailed up-to-date reference information on every
country in the world, with images of maps and flags; and 95 classic works
of history, literature, and religion, including The Koran and books on
the traditions of Judaism, all in plain text form. Complete
table of contents
This
World
Reference CD contains the full text of 92 "Country Studies"
published as printed books by the Federal Research Division of the Library
of Congress between 1987 and 1995 under a program sponsored by the U.S.
Department of Army. Each country study is presented as a single document,
in plain text form -- easy to read, to print, and to search (rather than
as a collection of over 100 separate documents for each book). In addition,
we include: The
2006 edition of the CIA World Factbook, an
interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents, with detailed information
on every country in the world. Complete
table of contents
What's
likely to happen next in the War on Terrorism or in the Balkans? What issues
matter most in Europe or Africa? Your
World on CD provides background texts that can help you understand
the implications of current events, including over 2200 documents from
the UN, over 1200 from NATO, and the 2002 CIA World Factbook with info
about every country in the world. Complete
table of contents
Feedback Fiction -- Books by new authors, seeking feedback ($19)
This CD contains all the selectsion of the Ebook of the Week Club, over
80 books, an extremely eclectic collection. Details:
http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat/week.html or http://www.samizdat.com/weekcd
.html
Ask Richard: free advice about writing and publishing fiction -- Questions and "expert" answers
Barter and swapping sites -- an alternative to online auctions
Articles by Richard Seltzer: