Everything but the Internet by Richard Seltzer

This CD contains the complete non-Internet works of Richard Seltzer, plus his favorite fiction (by Homer, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Dumas, O. Henry, Maupassant, Gogol, Hawthorne, and Twain). (His Internet works are available on another CD "My Internet: a Personal View of Internet Business Oppportunities".)

Intended for use with Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS X), this CD includes books, stories, plays, and articles in plain text and html formats, organized for easy access, and readable with your browser or word processor.

Everything But the Internet: Fiction, Articles, and Plays by Richard Seltzer ISBN 0931968119$29.00

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Table of Contents

Bulatovich, The Name of Hero, The Name of Man, and Ethiopia

Ethiopia through Russian Eyes

Ethiopia through Russian Eyes consists of two books: From Entotto to the River Baro and With the Armies of Menelik II, both written by Alexander Bulatovich and translated by Richard Seltzer. This is a unique and detailed first-hand account of Ethiopia in 1896-98 -- at the change of an era -- by a Russian officer with remarkable understanding for the many varied peoples who lived there and keen insight into their destiny.

Africa World Press/Red Sea Press recently published a print edition of this book which you can buy from Amazon.com.

• Translator's Introduction
• From Entotto to the River Baro (complete book, 400 Kbytes)
• With the Armies of Menelik II . (complete book, 600 Kbyes)

Articles and excerpts related to Bulatovich and Ethiopia

Articles

• "The Serge Solovieff mystery: a WWI variant of the Spanish Prisoner" scam by Richard Seltzer
• "From Russia to Ethiopia to the Internet" by Richard Seltzer
• "Alternatives to Academic Publishers" by Richard Seltzer
• London Times articles about Bulatovich (1913)
• "A.X. Bulatovich -- Hussar, Explorer, Monk" by I.S. Katsnelson
• Confidential letter from B. Chemerzin, Charge D'affaires of the Russian Embassy in Ethiopia to A. A. Neratov, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs -- December 15, 1911
• Email from the great-great grandson of Emperor Menelik II, and news of the fate of Vaska

Excerpts

• "Hunting Man and Beast in Ethiopia" (excerpt)
• "Even Elephants Pray" (excerpt)

The Name of Hero

The Name of Hero is an historical novel based on the life of Alexander Bulatovich, a Russian who was an explorer in Ethiopia, a cavalry officer during Russia's conquest of Manchuria in 1900, and later, as a monk at Mount Athos, led a group of "heretics" who challenged the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church, asserting the divinity of the Name of God. (Originally published by Tarcher/Houghton Mifflin). You can buy the hard cover edition of this book at Amazon.com or at our online storehttp://store.yahoo.com/samizdat

• Chapter 1 Railroads and religion
• Chapter 2 Facts and Faith
• Chapter 3 Love, Death, Life, and Other Minor Matters
• Chapter 4 Between Proving and Believing
• Chapter 5 Naming Names
• Chapter 6 First Lessons in Love
• Chapter 7 Hailar Taken Twice
• Chapter 8 To Believe or Not to Believe
• Chapter 9 Cross-Purposes
• Chapter 10 Chinese Sonya
• Chapter 11 A Clash of Cultures
• Chapter 12 The Sour Taste of Revenge
• Chapter 13 A Day of Triumph
• Chapter 14 For Mine is the Kingdom
• Chapter 15 The Knight Errant
• Chapter 16 Luck Runs Out
• Chapter 17 A Message for Strakhov
• Chapter 18 The Not-so-Tender Touch of Death
• Afterword

Related documents:

Letters from Princess Mary Orbeliani (sister of Alexander Bulatovich) to Richard Seltzer (author of The Name of Hero)

Timeline for Alexander Bulatovich from 1870 until he became a monk in 1907, with excerpts from his military record

The Name of Man

Sample chapters from this unpublished novel (a sequel to The Name of Hero):

• Pilgrims
• How not to Advance a Military Career
• Vaska's Dilemma
• Name Day
• Love, Conception, and Birth
• Arms and the Bicycle
• Meeting at Kronstadt

Related documents: Email from the great-great grandson of Emperor Menelik II, and news of the fate of Vaska

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Sandcastles

Sandcastles is a modern family saga in which hopes, beliefs, and dreams pass from generation to generation. The story centers around an uncle, his nephew, and the two women they both love, as they dance in and out of one another's lives.

• Charlies, the uncle, is a charismatic, self-taught filmmaker.
• Irene, his wife, is brillliant, uninhibited: a mistress of the unexpected, a mathematician and spinner of mystic tales.
• Frank, the nephew, is a novelist, who feeds on the stories of others.
• Marge, a would-be psychologist, is obsessed with memory and its relationship to dreams.

Chapter 1 Mansions and Castles
Chapter 2 Aunt Rachel and the Wizard of Oz
Chapter 3 Charlie's Coming of Age
Chapter 4 Recruited
Chapter 5 The Pictures from Charlie's Wedding
Chapter 6 Irene in Munich
Chapter 7 Irene at the Beach
Chapter 8 Sixtieth Anniversary
Chapter 9 Romance in Camelot
Chapter 10 Traffic Jam
Chapter 11 Ghosts
Chapter 12 Frank and Marge
Chapter 13 Giving Thanks
Chapter 14 Mistakes
Chapter 15 California Dream
Chapter 16 The Reverend Schumacher and Son
Chapter 17 Modelling for Charlie
Chapter 18 Rebirth
Chapter 19 Cabin Fever
Chapter 20 Dreams are Contagious
Chapter 21 With God
Chapter 22 Pair of Dice
Chapter 23 Voices from the Past
Chapter 24 Charlie's Daughter
Chapter 25 Camelot's Ghost
Chapter 26 Alarms
Chapter 27 Dream House in the Woods
Chapter 28 How to Build a Roof
Chapter 29 Time to Tell
Chapter 30 Sharing Sandcastles

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The Lizard of Oz

When an elementary class sets out on a quest to save the world from disenchantment, their adventures reveal paradoxes of the human mind and ways of awakening the magic within us.

Library Journal -- "An intriguing and very entertaining little novel"

Aspect -- "Carroll and Tolkien have a new companion"

Lancaster (PA) Independent Press -- "a work so saturated that the mind is both stoned with pleasure and alive with wonder"

Philadelphia Bulletin -- "A commentary on our times done delightfully"

Audio-book version of The Lizard of Oz (complete text, plus illustrations by Christin Couture and audio narration by the author). To hear the audio, you need to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer and must have the RealPlayer.

This is a new, expanded version of the underground classic, originally published in 1974. This edition (which includes new episodes and changes throughout) is not available in print. You can buy the original print edition at our online store at http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat

• Chapter 1 The Humbug
• Chapter 2 The Redcoats
• Chapter 3 The Pothole
• Chapter 4 Pothead Land
• Chapter 5 Sir Real
• Chapter 6 Egghead Land
• Chapter 7 The Library
• Chapter 8 Big Mack
• Chapter 9 Prince Frog
• Chapter 10 The River
• Chapter 11 The Underworld
• Chapter 12 The Lowest Court [a new chapter, added after the first edition]
• Chapter 13 The Road to El Easy One [a new chapter, added after the first edition]
• Chapter 14 Camelot
• Chapter 15 The Mothers of Fact
• Chapter 16 The Muses
• Chapter 17 Cloud Nine
• Chapter 18 Mr. Shermin
• Chapter 19 Review of the Troops
• Chapter 20 Redland
• Chapter 21The Moors
• Chapter 22 Miss Morgan's Dream
• Chapter 23 The Mouth of the Nile
• Chapter 24 Captain Ahab
• Chapter 25 Nature and Science
• Chapter 26 The Great Dragon of Ome
• Chapter 27 Winthrop
• Postscript to the Lizard of Oz ,
• Food for Thought excerpts from works alluded to
• Illustrations by Christin Couture (HTML file, including all the illustrations from the printed book)
• The self-publishing story "The Lizard of Oz -- Adventures in Small-Press Publishing" by Richard Seltzer
• The Lizard of Oz for the Palm -- an 84K zip file with the full text of the book formatted for the Palm Pilot. Requires iSilo to be read (software available for free from www.isilo.com). (Thanks very much to David Gilford for doing this.)

The children's play version of THE LIZARD OF OZ

Review from Plays for Children and Young Adults, an Evaluative Index and Guide, Supplement 1, 1989-1994 by Raschelle S. Karp, June H. Schlessinger, and Bernard S. Schlessinger, Garland Publishing, New York, 1996.

"1101. K-12 (+) Seltzer, Richard, The Lizard of Oz. CAST: 6f, 14m, u. ACTS: 1. SETTINGS: Bare stage. PLAYING TIME: 50 min. PLOT: Two fish, in a fishbowl in a basement classroom, remark on the boredom of the students. One of the fish, Mr. Shermin, explains to the other, Mrs. O'Rourke, that the boredom is caused by the Humbug's tune, which can only be changed by the Lizard of Oz. One of the children Eugene, overhears the conversation and conspires with the fish to travel to Oz in a little green VW with several classmates. On the way, the car falls into a pothole, and encounters a witch who gives them directions. They meet the potheads, people with pots for heads, who help them with more water for the fishbowl. The witch reappears at various times, and the group meets Sir Real, who has a cereal bowl for a head; eggheads, including Humpty Dumpty; a wallflower; an empty-headed pothead with blue eyes (Mr New Man); Mr. Francis Bacon, the librarian; Mr. Charon, the ferryboatman/undertaker; Lewis Carroll; William Shakespeare; Mark Twain; and Plato and the Muses. Mrs. O'Rourke swims off and Mr. Shermin becomes a human teacher. The gang reaches Oz and a bevy of further odd characters and returns to the classroom, refreshed, and with a new teacher, Mr. Shermin. RECOMMENDATION: The adventures and the characters are out of Alice in Wonderland, but the overall effect is comic and interesting."

The full text of the play is available here as a plain text file (without illustrations) and as a pdf file (with all the illustrations embedded). You can buy this playscript from in printed form at Amazon.com.

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Plays

Without a Myth (or Amythos) -- a stage play

Without a Myth (three-act stage play) -- The characters are assigned roles in a fantastic myth. They can either go ahead and act out their lives in accord wth their given script or drop out and never have any role in life. They have 24 hours in which to decide. A flaw in the rules of this absurd, cosmic games makes the choices and actions of the two main characters a matter of life and death.

This play has not yet been been published in paper form. It was produced for the first time by High Impact Theater at the Met Performing Arts Center in Spokane, Washington, in the winter of 2001.

Making sense of the myths behind Greek tragedy, in particular the mythos of Pelops/Atreus/Agamemnon, article by Richard Seltzer

Mercy (a stage play)

Mercy (a two-act historical comedy) is based on the lives of Mercy Otis Warren and General Johnny Burgoyne. A recent biography of Burgoyne, entitled The Man Who Lost America, focuses on his defeat and surrender at Saratoga in 1777. A recent biography of Mercy Warren, entitled First Lady of the Revolution, indicates that she was intimately connected with principal actors and actions of the Revolution.

Both Burgoyne and Mercy Warren were playwrights. After the Revolution, Burgoyne wrote several "hit" plays for the London stage. In 1775, during the British occupation of Boston, he wrote The Blockade of Boston. Mercy replied with a play entitled The Blockheads.

These two historical figures are natural antagonists who should be made to meet on the stage.

Mercy Warren: Conscience of the American Revolution, Review of her book "The Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution"

Rights Crossing (a stage play)

Rights Crossing (a two-act historical play) was written for Columbia, Pennsylvania, where it was performed December 1-4, 1976, as part of that town's bicentennial celebration. The events of the play take place in December 1777 and center around the Conway conspiracy.

The action focuses on the strategic importance of the ferry crossing that would one day become Columbia; situated between Congress in York and the army in Valley Forge. The fates of the town-to-be and the nation-to-be are interwoven, with local historical figures playing significant roles in a plausible confrontation with Conway and Mifflin.

Conway, plotting to overthrow Washington, tries to seize the ferry. But he underestimates the determination and resourcefulness of old Susannah Wright, the owner of the ferry, and her nephew Sam, the future founder of the town of Columbia.
 

Spit and Polish (a full-length screen play)

Spit and Polish (AKA "The Barracks", AKA "The Summer of Our Discontent") has never been produced nor published. The setting is basic training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, in the summer of 1970 (just after the invasion of Cambodia and the Kent State shootings). The trainees are reservists, national guardsmen, and four black draftees who have been "recycled." The draftees want nothing to do with the war. They have been through basic before and deliberately failed in order to postpone being shipped to Viet Nam. For the others, basic is a brief, but painful interruption in their normal lives. So long as there is no major foul-up, they'll return to their school or job in a few weeks. But the disappearance of one of the blacks threatens them all. Version in standard movie script .pdf format

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Traffic Jam (a short screen play)

Traffic Jam. An ordinary ride down a crowded superhighway becomes surreal when the drivers realize that they have no control over their vehicles. (10 pp.)
 

Stories

• Vienna, Pension Barbara
• Chiang ti
• Creation Story
• The Gentle Inquisitor
• Yanni
• Revolution
• The Mirror
• Hands
• Size Matters
• Saint Smith

• Now & Then
• Julie's Book: the Little Princess
• Mary Jane's Book: the Book of Animals
• The Little Oops Named Ker Plop
• Tiger in the Intercom
• Hundreds & Hundreds of Gerbils
• See You Later, Elevator
• The audio-book version of these stories (complete text, plus illustrations, and audio narration by the author). To hear the audio, you need to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer and must have the RealPlayer.) :
• Now and Then and Other Tales from Ome
• See You Later Elevator
• Hundreds and Hundreds of Gerbils
• Tiger in the Intercom

Poems

• Miscellaneous poems

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Articles

• The Nostalgia of Tomorrowland
• Global Competition and the Long Road to General Prosperity
• Why Bother to Save Halloween
• Romantic Romania? Be Sure to Bring Your Own Meat, Medicine and Toilet Paper (from 1988, before the revolution)
• Asthma in Timisoara: a Glimpse at the Romanian Medical System (from 1988)
• The Death of the Federalist Party
• Just Can't Weight? Trying to make sense of the relationship between exercise and weight loss
• About book publishing/buying/selling
• Rethinking "books" and "ebooks" -- stating the obvious (which often seems to be ignored.)
• Half is more than enough -- another online retail business model
• The Internet and books -- transformation of an industry
• Dialogue about the implications of epublishing and print on demand for authors and publishers
• Let books grow -- implications of electronic books and print on demand
• Further thoughts about the Internet and books
• Many of today's "online publishers" are really just "online printers"
• Alternative to ISBN for electronic books?
• Advice for authors about electronic opportunities
• Who owns what? (chapter 4 from The Social Web)
• Suggested Tactics for Building an Electronic Library
• An Author's View of Electronic Rights and the Public Domain
• The Public Domain and the World Wide Web -- Keep the Frontier Open
• The Lizard of Oz -- Adventures in Small Press Publishing
• Alternatives to Academic Publishers
• Marketing the book vs. marketing the author -- the differing interests of authors and publishers
• Free advice about writing and publishing fiction

• The Bombast Transcripts by Christopher Locke
• Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold reviewed
• Small Pieces Loosely Joined by David Weinberger
• Filial Respect in Confucius and Socrates and the divergence of Western and Chinese Philosophic Traditions
• The Death of the Federalist Party
• Justice My Brother by Roberta Kalechofsky
• Another look at Moliere's l'Avare
• Dryden's Exemplary Drama (lengthy essay)
• Mercy Warren: Conscience of the American Revolution a review of "The Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution"
• Making sense of the myths behind Greek tragedy, in particular the mythos of Pelops/Atreus/Agamemnon
• Blinded at Birth, poems by Diane Croft
• House Call to the Past by Janet Elaine Smith
• Introduction to the world next door -- Sadie's Song by Linda Hall
• What a difference a translation makes -- The Iliad translated by Robert Fagles
• At the end of the tunnel -- vibrating strings, some of which are light: the world can be known, The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
• Multiple reflecting mirrors: Fiction about fiction, fictitious biography about fictitious biography-- The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt and The Notebooks of Lana Skimnest by Anselm Atkins
• China today -- The Search for Modern China by Jonathan Spence, Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian, When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro, and The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
• Enjoying Faulkner
• Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
• Cultural interpreters, opening foreign worlds -- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III, Waiting by Ha Jin, The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri, and The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
• Getting the story right. Chocolat: the movie and the novel
• Why great companies fail:The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen and Living on the Fault Line by Geoffrey Moore
• What's my line? a review of Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
• Granta -- more than a literary magazine
• Old-fashioned fun and mutability in Barth's Sot-Weed Factor
• The Gift by Patrick O'Leary
• Pilgrim in a modern hell
• Trying to enjoy Bellow
• The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
• The speculative fiction of Patrick O'Leary and Victor Pelevin
• What Remains to be Discovered by John Maddox
• Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin
• High Stakes, No Prisoners by Charles Ferguson
• Read Harry aloud -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
• The resurrection of the Good Soldier Svejk. New translation bring sclassic comedy to life.
• Rapping with Socrates, a review of The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
• Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers
• Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
• Metro by Jeff Edmunds
• Nothing matters -- it matters a lot. Review of "Perfect Vacuum" by Stanislaw Lem
• Punktown by Jeffrey Thomas
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
• The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
• November 1916 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Quest for the Jade Sea by Pascal James Imperato
• Shakespeare would love it -- Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
• Having fun with Einstein and politics -- Einstein's Bridge by John Cramer
• Transforming history from narrative to science -- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• Messiah soul brothers -- Ender, Bean, and Harry Potter
• Katheryn's Secret by Linda Hall
• One Vermeer painting, two works of fiction
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond
The importance of listening (more about The Cluetrain Manifesto)
• The Cluetrain Manifesto by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger
• Weaving the Web : The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee
• The slavery that was Rome (in Plautus, Terence, and Petronius)
• The real story of Around the World in 80 Days
• Why I'm addicted to Robert Parker, despite and because of all his faults
• Anticipation in Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett, How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton, The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker, and The Dilbert Future by Scott Adams
• The Other Herodotus
• Scifi thoughts prompted by Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• The Three Musketeers and its sequels by Alexandre Dumas
• A Widow for One Year by John Irving
• The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
• The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
• The Sea Came in at Midnight by Steve Erickson
• Taking a Fresh Look at The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant
• Making Sense of the Internet Business Environment, a review of 'The Great Disruption' by Francis Fukuyama
• Thoughts about books I recently read
• Joseph Heller -- Richard Seltzer
• Sowing the Wind, a review by Richard Seltzer of School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov

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Context: Richard's favorite fiction

Dostoyevsky

• Crime and Punishment, translated to English by Constance Garnett
• The Gambler, translated to English by C. J. Hogarth
• The Grand Inquisitor (short)
• The Idiot, translated to English by Eva Martin
• Notes from the Underground, in English
• Poor Folk, translated by C. J. Hogarth
• The Possessed (in html format)

Alexandre Dumas (pere)

• The Black Tulip
• Celebrated Crimes -- 18 books in a single file
• The Borgias
• The Cenci
• Massacres of the South
• Mary Stuart
• Karl-Ludwig Sand
• Urbain Grandier
• Nisida
• Desrues
• La Constantin
• Joan of Naples
• The Man in the Iron Mask (an essay, reflecting on the history behind the novel)
• Martin Guerre (source of the movies "The Return of Martin Guerre" and "Somersby")
• Ali Pacha
• The Countess of Saint Geran
• Murat
• The Marquise de Brinvilliers
• Vaninka
• The Marquise de Ganges
• Chicot the Jester (abridged translation of La Dame de Monsoreau)
• The Companions of Jehu
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Three Musketeers Saga

The Three Musketeers (covering 1625-1628)

Twenty Years After (covering 1648-49)

The Vicomte de Bragelonne (covering 1660)

Ten Years Later (covering 1660-1661)

Louise de la Valliere (covering 1661)

The Man in the Iron Mask (covering 1661-1673)

Nikolai Gogol

• Dead Souls
• Taras Bulba
• The Inspector General (play)
• St. John's Eve

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Ancestral Footstep
• The Blithedale Romance
• The Dolliver Romance
• Fanshawe
• From Mosses from an Old Manse
• The Birthmark
• Young Goodman Brown
• Rappaccini's Daughter
• Mrs. Bullfrog
• The Celestial Railroad
• The Procession of Life
• Feathertop: A Moralized Legend
• Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent
• Drowne's Wooden Image
• Roger Malvin's Burial
• The Artist of the Beautiful
• The Great Stone Face
• The Great Stone Face
• The Ambitious Guest
• The Great Carbuncle
• Sketches from Memory
• Grimshawe's Secret
• The House of the Seven Gables
• Journal of an African Cruiser by an officer of the US Navy, edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Marble Faun
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Our Old Home: a Series of English Sketches
• Passages from the American Notebooks
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Passages from the English Notebooks (2 volumes)
• Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks (2 volumes)
• The Scarlet Letter
• Septimius Felton
• Sketches and Studies
• The Snow Image
• The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle
• The Great Stone Face
• Ethan Brand
• The Canterbury Pilgrims
• The Devil in Manuscript
• My Kinsman, Major Molineux
• Tanglewood Tales
• Twice-Told Tales
• The Gray Champion
• The Wedding Knell
• The Minister's Black Veil
• The May-Pole of Merry Mount
• The Gentle Boy
• Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe
• Wakefield
• The Great Carbuncle
• David Swan
• The Hollow of the Three Hills
• Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
• Legends of the Province House
•   I. Howe's Masquerade
•   II. Edward Randolph's Portrait
•   III. Lady Eleanore's Mantle
•   IV. Old Esther Dudley
• The Ambitious Guest
• Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure
• The Shaker Bridal
• Endicott and the Red Cross
• The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808
• Grandfather and the Children and the Chair
• The Puritans and the Lady Arbela
• A Rainy Day
• Troublous Times
• The Government of New England
• The Pine-Tree Shillings
• The Quakers and the Indians
• The Indian Bible
• England and New England
• The Sunken Treasure
• What the Chair Had Known
• Extracts from the Life of John Eliot
• The Chair in the Firelight
• The Salem Witches
• The Old-Fashioned School
• Cotton Mather
• The Rejected Blessing
• Pomps and Vanities
• The Provincial Muster
• The Old French War and the Acadian Exiles
• The End of the War
• Thomas Hutchinson
• Account of the deportaion of the Acadians
• A New Year's Day
• The Stamp Act
• The Hutchinson Mob
• The British Troops in Boston
• The Boston Massacre
• A Collection of Portrait
• The Tea Party and Lexington
• The Siege of Boston
• The Tory's Farewell
• The War for Independence.
• Grandfather's Dream
• A Letter from Governor Hutchinson
• about Nathaniel Hawthorne and Brook Farm
• Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman
• Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne
• Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns
• Sketches from Concord by Frank Preston Stearns
• Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
• A Study of Hawthorne by George Lathrop
• My Friends at Brook Farm by Jon Van Der See Sears
• Nathaniel Hawthorne by George E. Woodbury

O. Henry

• Cabbages and Kings
• The Four Million
• The Gentle Grafter
• Heart of the West
• Options
• Roads of Destiny
• Rolling Stones
• Sixes and Sevens
• Strictly Business
• The Trimmed Lamp
• The Voice of the City
• Waifs and Strays
• Whirligigs

Homer

• Iliad
• translated to English by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers
• translated to English by Samuel Butler
• translated by Edward Earl of Derby
• translated by Alexander Pope
• Odyssey
• translated to English by Alexander Pope
• translated to English by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang
• translated to English by Samuel Butler

Guy de Maupassant

• Complete Short Stories -- 13 volumes in a single file, 180 stories, translated to English by Albert McNaster, A.E. Henderson, Madame Quesada et al.

Leo Tolstoy

• Anna Karenina, translated to English by Constance Garnett
• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Part 8
• The Cossacks, in English
• Father Sergius, in English
• The Forged Coupon and Other Stories, in English
• The Forged Coupon
• After the Dance
• Alyosha the Pot
• My Dream
• There Are No Guilty People
• The Young Tsar
• The Kingdom of God Is Within You, translated by Constance Garnett, in English
• The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, in English
• The Kreutzer Sonata
• Ivan the Fool
• A Lost Opportunity
• Polikushka
• The Candle
• Letter to a Hindu (short)
• Master and Man, translated to English by Louise and Aylmer Maude
• The Moscow Census (from What to Do?), translated to English by Isabel Hapgood (short)
• An Old Acquaintance (short)
• Science and Art
• Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow (from What to Do?), translated to English by Isabel Hapgood
• War and Peace, in English
• Book 1
• Book 2
• Book 3
• Book 4
• Book 5
• Book 6
• Book 7
• Book 8
• Book 9
• Book 10
• Book 11
• Book 12
• Book 13
• Book 14
• Book 15
• What Men Live By and Other Tales, in English
• Youth, translated to English by C.J. Hogarth

Mark Twain

• 1601 or Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors (story)
• The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
• The $30,000 Bequest
• A Dog's Tale
• Was It Heaven?  Or Hell?
• A Cure for the Blues
• The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant
• The Californian's Tale
• A Helpless Situation
• A Telephonic Conversation
• Edward Mills and George Benton:  A Tale
• The Five Boons of Life
• The First Writing-machines
• Italian without a Master
• Italian with Grammar
• A Burlesque Biography
• How to Tell a Story
• General Washington's Negro Body-servant
• Wit Inspirations of the "Two-year-olds"
• An Entertaining Article
• A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
• Amended Obituaries
• A Monument to Adam
• A Humane Word from Satan
• Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English"
• Advice to Little Girls
• Post-mortem Poetry
• The Danger of Lying in Bed
• Portrait of King William III
• Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
• Extracts from Adam's Diary
• Eve's Diary
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
• The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton
• On the Decay of the Art of Lying
• About Magnanimous-Incident Literature
• The Grateful Poodle
• The Benevolent Author
• The Grateful Husband
• Punch, Brothers, Puch
• The Great Revolution in Pitcairn
• The Canvasser's Tale
• An Encounter with an Interviewer
• Paris Notes
• Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany
• Speech on the Babies
• Speech on the Weather
• Concerning the American Language
• Rogers
• The American Claimant
• The Carnival of Crime in Connecticut (story)
• Christian Science
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches
• The Curious Republic of Gondour
• A Memory
• Introductory to "Memoranda"
• About Smelt
• A Couple of Sad Experiences
• Dan Murphy
• The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870
• Curious Relic for Sale
• A Reminiscence fo the Back Settlements
• A Royal Compliment
• The Approaching Epidemic
• The Tone-Imparting Committee
• Our Precious Lunatic
• The European War
• The Wild Man Interviewed
• Last Words of Great Men
• A Dog's Tale (story)
• A Double Barrelled Detective (story)
• Essays on Paul Bourget
• Extract's from Adam's Diary (story)
• Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (story)
• Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (essay)
• The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
• Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again (story)
• A Horse's Tale (story)
• How to Tell a Story and Others (stories and essays)
• How to Tell a Story
• The Wounded Soldier
• The Golden Arm
• Mental Telegraphy Again
• The Invalid's Story
• In Defence of Harriet Shelley (essay)
• The Innocents Abroad
• Life on the Mississippi
• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
• My First Lie, and How I Got Out of IT
• The Exquimaux Maiden's Romance
• Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy
• Is He Living or Is He Dead?
• My Debut as a Literary Person
• At the Appetite-Cure
• Concerning the Jews
• From the 'London Times' of 1904
• About Play-Acting
• Travelling with a Reformer
• Diplomatic Pay and Clothes
• Luck
• The Captain's Story
• Stirring Times in Austria
• Meisterschaft
• My Boyhood Dreams
• To the Above Old People
• In Memoriam -- Olivia Susan Clemens
• The Mysterious Stranger (stories)
• The Mysterious Stranger
• A Fable
• Hunting the Deceitful Turkey
• The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (volume 1)
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (volume 2)
• The Prince and the Pauper
• Pudd'nhead Wilson
• Rambling Idle Excursion (story)
• Roughing It
• Sketches New and Old
• My Watch
• Political Economy
• The Jumping Frog
• Journalism in Tennessee
• The Story of the Bad Little Boy
• The Story of the Good Little Boy
• A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore
• Niagara
• Answers to Correspondents
• To Raise Poultry
• Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup
• My First Literary Venture
• How the Author was Sold in Newark
• The Office Bore
• Johnny Greer
• The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract
• The Case of George Fisher
• Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
• The Judges "Spirited Woman"
• Information Wanted
• Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys and Girld
• My Late Senatorial Secretaryship
• A Fashion Item
• Riley-Newspaper Correspondent
• A Fine Old Man
• Science vs. Luck
• The Late Benjamin Franklin
• Mr. Bloke's Item
• A Medieval Romance
• Petition Concerning Copyright
• After-Dinner Speech
• Lionizing Murderers
• A New Crime
• A Curious Dream
• A True Story
• The Siamese Twins
• Speech a thte Scottish Banquet in London
• A Ghost Story
• The Capitoline Venus
• Speech on Accident Insurance
• John Chinaman in New York
• How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
• The Petrified Man
• My Bloody Massacre
• The Undertaker's Chat
• Concerning Chambermaids
• Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man
• "After" Jenkins
• About Barbers
• "Party Cries" in Ireland
• The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation
• History Repeats Itself
• Honored as a Curiosity
• First Interview with Artemus Ward
• Cannibalism in the Cars
• The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
• The Widow's Protext
• The Scriptural Panoramist
• Curing a Cold
• A Curious Pleasure Excursion
• Running for Governor
• A Mysterious Visit
• Speeches
• The Stolen White Elephant (story)
• Those Extraordinary Twins (story)
• Tom Sawyer Abroad (story)
• Tom Sawyer, Detective (story)
• A Tramp Abroad
• What Is Man? And Other Essays
• What Is Man?
• The Death of Jean
• The Turning-Point of My Life
• How to Make History Dates Stick
• The Memorable Assassination
• A Scrap of Curious History
• Switzerland, the Cradle of Liberty
• At the Shrine of St. Wagner
• William Dean Howells
• English as She is Taught
• A Simplified Alphabet
• As Concerns Interpreting the Deity
• Concerning Tobacco
• Taming the Bicycle
• Is Shakespeare Dead?
• 4 books about Mark Twain
• Complete Letters of Mark Twain 1853-1910, arranged with comment by Albert Bigelow Paine
• Mark Twain: A Biography (in three volumes) by Albert Bigelow Paine
• The Boy's Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances: My Mark Twain by William Dean Howells
• essay by Mark Twain about Mark Twain
• A Burlesque Autobiography by Mark Twain
"Talking" software included on this book CD:

Text-to-voice conversion software can allow you to hear as well as read these books. So you can test this capability and decide if it might be valuable to you, we include the include the installation file for ReadPlease 2003 on this CD. (NB -- This version of the software is intended for Windows PCS, not Macs.) You can use that file to install a trial copy of ReadPlease Plus, which is a commercial-quality product and can read files of any size. This trial copy is good for 30 days, after which, if you wish, you could buy a license from ReadPlease for $49.95. As an alternative, you can use that same file to install their free version, which doesn't expire, but which can only handle 16K of text at a time; which means that to read a book, you would have to copy and paste one peice of text after another.

When the rapid, automatic 10 Mbyte installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows.

When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and tuype whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.

Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. You can listen to samples at their site www.readplease.com, where you can also see detailed help files.