Authors from Google Books
Herein are the collected Google Books works of various deserving authors, who are deserving because they're here.
Herein is my personal catalog of reference and other books of particular interest to me that have been scanned and made available in PDF format via Google Books. They've proved a really marvelous resource, and one which is getting steadily better, larger and more useful. While it's handy and convenient to let them store the things so they'll be at your fingertips whenever you're on the web, a cautionary type might want to download copies of at least the ones of most interest. Google is a corporation, with more rights - thanks to Big Tony and the Supremes - and less responsibilities than these anachronisms we call individuals, and they can do whatever they bloody well want to at any time they want to do it.
This is all here because either I can't figure out how to use the tools Google Books provides to do this, or their tools are insufficient and overly fussy. I'm betting the latter.
Feel free to borrow any or all of this, with the understanding that an attribution will keep the karma dogs off your ass.
| On a technical note, I've attempted to extract informative or at least entertaining bits from the prefaces or other parts of some of the books. These will appear in this differently colored format which, thankfully, at least isn't blinking. These extracts may contain extraneous artifacts from Google's OCR rendering of the PDF scans into text that I've been too lazy to fix. |
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On another technical note, I'll occasionally add reviews, comments, etc. from sources external to the books, which will added in a wee font like this.
On a really annoying technical note, some entries will be shown in blue. These are so indicated because they exist and should - by any reading of copyright law not involving Sonny Bono and DisneyCorp - be available. Their non-availability makes me blue in the Buddy Guy way.
If you feel you must get in touch with me so you can send me mint copies of any or all of the books listed below, then send some electrons to baum@stommel.tamu.edu.
Author List
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (1912) - Ambrose Bierce
Vol. 4: Shapes of Clay (1910, 376) - Ambrose Bierce
Vol. 6: The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter/Fantastic Fables (1911, 383) - Ambrose Bierce
Vol. 7: The Devil's Dictionary (1911, 376) - Ambrose Bierce
Vol. 8: Negligible Tales/On With the Dance/Epigrams (1911, 381) - Ambrose Bierce
Vol. 9: Tangential Views (1911, 384) - Ambrose Bierce
Catalogue of the Library of the Late Charles Bradlaugh (1891, 137) - Charles Bradlaugh, Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast (1919) - William Cowper Brann
Brann the Iconoclast: A Collection of the Writings of W. C. Brann (1898, 464) - W. C. Brann
Brann the Iconoclast: A Collection of the Writings of W. C. Brann (1899, 464) - W. C. Brann
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights - Richard Francis Burton
Porcupine's Works: Containing Various Writings and Selections, Exhibiting a Faithful Picture of the United States of American; of Their Governments, Laws, Politics and Resources (1801) - William Cobbett
From Winsor (1888):
| Peter Porcupine's Works, exhibiting a faithful Picture of the United States of America, their Governments, Laws, Politics, Resources, Presidents, Governors, Legislators, Customs, Manners, Morals, Religion, Virtues, Vices, etc., and a complete Series of Historical Documents and Remarks, from the end of the War, in 1783 to iSoi (London, 1801), in twelve volumes, is not so wearisome reading as the extent might indicate, for his characterizations are racy, and we get principles and men set before us vividly. He settled in Philadelphia in 1796, and of course a portion of his survey is his observation of events not within his experience; but he looked sharply at the past as well as sharply at the present. An impetuous zeal carried him often beyond the bounds of prudence, sometimes beyond decency, and his Peter Porcupine's Gazette occasionally hurt the Federalist party as much as its enemies. It was issued in Philadelphia from March 4, 1797, to Jan., 1800, and it was from this and his pamphlets that the Works were made up. Schouler (i. 367), referring to the Gaiette, speaks of it as "ostensibly the mouthpiece of the ultra-Federalists, but in reality to propagate British opinions of a deeper dye." Benj. Russell, in the Columbian Centinel, thus defined Cobbett's work: " The Federalists found the Jacobins had the Aurora, Argus, and Chronicle, and they perceived that these vermin were not to be operated on by reason or decency. It was therefore thought necessary to hunt down ihese skunks and foxes, and the ' fretful porcupine' was selected for this business " (Buckingham's Reminiscences, ii. 81). Cobbett's free pen brought him easily into libel suits, and for an attack on Dr. Rush he was fined $5,000, which, with expenses, cost him $8,000. He took his revenge in his Rush Light (five nos.; cf. Brinley Catal., iii. no. 4,815), which he printed in New York in 1800, just before leaving for England, and there were those who said that he was pensioned from England to advocate monarchical ideas in America! (Cf. Hildreth, v. 164, etc., for other libel suits.) |
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Vol. 8 (1801, 480)
Cottage Economy: Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer Etc. (1822, 207) - William Cobbett
META
A Memoir of George Cruikshank: Artist and Humourist (1878, 64) - Walter Hamilton
George Cruikshank: The Artists, the Humourist, and the Man: A Critico-Bibliographical Essay (1879, 77) - William Bates
The Life of George Cruikshank, Vol. 1 (1883, 392) - Blanchard Jerrold
The Life of George Cruikshank, Vol. 2 (1882, 280) - Blanchard Jerrold
The Works of George Cruikshank in Oil, Water Colors, Original Drawings, Etchings, Woodcuts, Lithographs, and
Glyphographs (1890, 112) - John Bartholomew Gough, George E. Gladwin
A Memoir of George Cruikshank (1891, 144) - Frederic George Stephens, William Makepeace Thackeray
The Works of George Cruikshank: Classified and Arranged (1903, 301) - Richard John Hardy Douglas
A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Printed Works Illustrated by George Cruikshank (1914, 226) - Albert Mayer Cohn
Cruikshankiana: A Choice Collection of Books Illustrated by George Cruikshank (1916, 40) - Robert H. Dodd
The Harry Elkins Widener Collection of Books Illustrated by Isaac, George and Robert Cruikshank (1918, 279) - A. S. W. Rosenbach
NON-META
Points of Humour, Vol. 1 & 2 (1823, 98) - George Cruikshank
George Cruikshank's Omnibus: Illustrated with One Hundred Engravings on Steel and Wood (1842, 300) - George Cruikshank, Laman Blanchard
The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1877, 268) - George Cruikshank
George Cruikshank's Table-Book (1878, 277) - George Cruikshank
Augustus De Morgan
A Treatise on the Calculus of Functions (1836, 88) - Augustus de Morgan
The Elements of Algebra Preliminary to the Differential Calculus (1837, 248) - Augustus de Morgan
Elements of Trigonometry and Trigonometrical Analysis Preliminary to the
Differential Calculus (1837, 230) - Augustus de Morgan
An Essay on Probabilities, and on Their Application to Life Contingencies
and Insurance Offices (1838, 306) - Augustus de Morgan
The Differential and Integral Calculus (1842, 785) - Augustus de Morgan
Arithmetical Books from the Invention of Printing to the Present Time (1847, 124) - Augustus de Morgan
Trigonometry and Double Algebra (1849, 167) - August de Morgan
Syllabus of a Proposed System of Logic (1860, 72) - Augustus de Morgan
The Quadrature of the Circle: Correspondence Between an Eminent Mathematician and
James Smith, Esq. (1861, 200) - Augustus de Morgan, James Smith
Elements of Arithmetic (1869, 220) - Augustus de Morgan
The Elements of Arithmetic (1876, 218) - Augustus de Morgan
Memoir of Augustus de Morgan (1882, 422) - Sophia Elizabeth de Morgan
Newton: His Friend and His Niece (1885, 161) - Augustus de Morgan
On the Difficulty of Correct Description of Books (1902, 30) - Augustus de Morgan
On the Study and Difficulties of Mathematics (1902, 288) - Augustus de Morgan
The Book of Almanacs (1907, 89) - Augustus de Morgan
Elementary Illustrations of the Differential and Integral Calculus (1909, 144) - Augustus de Morgan
Essays on the Life and Work of Newton (1914, 198) - Augustus de Morgan
A Budget of Paradoxes (1915) - Augustus De Morgan
Formal Logic (1847) (1926, 392) - Augustus de Morgan
James Edmund Harting
British Animals Extinct Within Historic Times (1880, 258) - James Edmund Harting
The True Lover's Fortune; or, the Beggar of the Pont des Arts (1843, 91) - Wilhelm Hauff
The Oriental Story Book: A Collection of Tales (1855, 219) - Wilhelm Hauff
Arabian Days' Entertainments (1858, 434) - Wilhelm Hauff
Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace (1881, 397) - Wilhelm Hauff, Edward L. Stowell
The Wine-Ghosts of Bremen (1889, 64) - Wilhelm Hauff
Tales from Hauff (1896, 200) - Wilhelm Hauff, Charles B Goold
Longnose the Dwarf and Other Fairy Tales (1903, 303) - Wilhelm Hauff
William Hazlitt
List of the Writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt (1868, 233) - Alexander Ireland
An Index to the Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1906, 237) - William Hazlitt, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover
William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings (1889, 510) - William Hazlitt, Alexander Ireland
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (1905, 549) - Lafcadio Hearn
In Ghostly Japan (1905, 241) - Lafcadio Hearn
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1907, 255) - Lafcadio Hearn
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (First Series) (1907, 319) - Lafcadio Hearn
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (Second Series) (1910, 320) - Lafcadio Hearn
The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn (1922) - Lafcadio Hearn
George Jacob Holyoake
The History of Co-Operation (1908, 691) - George Jacob Holyoake
Collected Essays (1893-1901) - Thomas Henry Huxley
My Marine Memorandum Book, Vol. 1, 2 & 3 (1845, 319 & 304 & 300) - Hargrave Jennings
The Ship of Glass; or, The Mysterious Island (1846) - Hargrave Jennings
Curious Things of the Outside World (1861, 329) - Hargrave Jennings
The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries, 1st Ed. (1870, 339) - Hargrave Jennings
Live Lights or Dead Lights: (Altar or Table?) (1873, 199) - Hargrave Jennings
One of the Thirty: A Strange History, Now for the First Time Told (1873, 359) - Hargrave Jennings
The Childishness and Brutality of the Time (1883, 339) - Hargrave Jennings
The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries, 3rd Ed. (1887, 294) - Hargrave Jennings
Phallic Objects: Monuments and Remains (1889, 76) - Hargrave Jennings
Ophioloatreia: An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development
of Serpent Worship (1889, 131) - Hargrave Jennings
Nature Worship: An Account of Phallic Faiths and Practices Ancient and Modern (1891, 105) - Hargrave Jennings
The Masculine Cross: A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of
Sex Worship (1891, 100) - Hargrave Jennings
Phallism: A Description of the Worship of Lingam-Yoni (1892, 85) - Hargrave Jennings
The Works of Ben Jonson (1875) - Ben Jonson
Elements of Political Science (1906, 417) - Stephen Leacock
Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks: Responsible Government (1907, 371) - Stephen Leacock
Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge (1913, 195) - Stephen Leacock
The Marine of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier (1914, 125) - Stephen Leacock
The Methods of Mr. Sellyer (1914, 37) - Stephen Leacock
Essays and Literary Studies (1916, 310) - Stephen Leacock
Further Foolishness: Sketches and Satires on the Follies of the Day (1917, 312) - Stephen Leacock
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy (1917, 282) - Stephen Leacock
Literary Lapses (1918, 248) - Stephen Leacock
The Hohenzollerns in America, with the Bolsheviks in Berlin: And Other Impossibilities (1919, 269) - Stephen Leacock
Winsome Winnie, and Other New Nonsense Novels (1920, 243) - Stephen Leacock
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1920, 303) - Stephen Leacock
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice (1920, 152) - Stephen Leacock
Frenzied Fiction (1921, 294) - Stephen Leacock
Nonsense Novels (1922, 229) - Stephen Leacock
My Discovery of England (1922, 262) - Stephen Leacock
Wisdom While You Wait: Being a Foretaste of the Glories of the 'Insidecopletuar Britanniaware' (1903, 95) - Edward Verrall Lucas
A Boswell of Baghdad (1917, 245) - Edward Verrall Lucas
Literary Life of James K. Paulding (1867, 397) - William Irving Paulding
A Sketch of Old England: By a New England Man (1822) - James Kirke Paulding
Salmagundi: or, The Whim-WHams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. (1824, 393) - James Kirke Paulding
John Bull in America; or, the New Munchausen (1825, 226) - James Kirke Paulding
The New Mirror for Travellers; and, Guide to the Springs (1828, 292) - James Kirke Paulding
Salmagundi: Second Series (1835) - James Kirke Paulding
Koningsmarke; or, Old Times in the New World (1836) - James Kirke Paulding
A Gift from Fairy Land (1838, 174) - James Kirke Paulding
American Comedies (1847, 295) - James Kirke Paulding
Calidore and Miscellanea (1891, 157) - Thomas Love Peacock
Light Science for Leisure Hours: A Series of Familiar Essays on Scientific Subjects, Natural Phenomena, Etc. (1895, 343) - Richard Anthony Proctor
William Thomas Stead
The Splendid Paupers: A Tale of the Coming Plutocracy (1894, 94) - William Thomas Stead
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift (1908)
The Theory of the Leisure Class (1912, 404) - Thorstein Veblen
The Works of Voltaire (1901) - Voltaire
Caricature History of the Georges; or, Annals of the House of Hanover: Compiled from Squibs, Broadsides,
Window Pictures, Lampoons, and Pictorial Caricatures of the Time (1904, 639) - Thomas Wright