Samuel: 2879 books

Book cover of The Kings Cavalier
by Samuel Shellabarger
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013

A young Frenchman and a young Englishwoman are caught in the wild plots and counterplots surrounding the Bourbon conspiracy against Francis I in 16th century France.  Complete with rich pageantry, a jealousy-maddened king, an evil nobleman, Sire Francois the Sorcerer, wolf hounds and mad gallops...
Book cover of Contagion Proliferation: Sequel to 'Three Deaths, One Pact'
by Samuel Nye
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2012

Ricky and Jimmy report the gruesome scene in the woods, with a few minor changes to their story to make it a little more believable. Robert Martin is the cop who goes out to examine the bodies, but when he gets to the clearing in the woods where he is supposed to find the scene of gore, he finds nothing.Before...
Book cover of The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney
by Samuel Warren
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018

A fascinating account of the personal experiences of various cases undertaken by 19th century English lawyer Samuel Warren. Excerpt: Something more than half a century ago, a person, in going along Holborn, might have seen, near the corner of one of the thoroughfares which diverge towards Russell...
Book cover of Narrative Of A Journey Down The Ohio And Mississippi In 1789-90
by Samuel S. Forman
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014

Narrative Of A Journey Down The Ohio And Mississippi In 1789-90 by Samuel S. Forman.
Book cover of Stories and Texts for Nothing
by Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

This volume brings together three of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s major short stories and thirteen shorter pieces of fiction that he calls “texts for nothing.” Here, as in all his work, Beckett relentlessly strips away all but the essential to arrive at a core of truth. His prose reveals...
Book cover of Happy Days

Happy Days

A Play in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013

In Happy Days, Samuel Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, top time past and time present. Once again, stripping theater to its barest essentials, Happy Days offers only two...
Book cover of Murphy
by Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011

Murphy, Samuel Beckett’s first published novel, is set in London and Dublin, during the first decades of the Irish Republic. The title character loves Celia in a “striking case of love requited” but must first establish himself in London before his intended bride will make the journey from Ireland...
Book cover of More Pricks Than Kicks
by Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

Samuel Beckett, the recipient of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the greatest writers of our century, first published these ten short stories in 1934; they originally formed part of an unfinished novel. They trace the career of the first of Beckett’s antiheroes, Belacqua Shuah.Belacqua...
Book cover of Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces
by Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009

This collection of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s dramatic pieces includes a short stage play, two radio plays, and two pantomimes. The stage play Krapp’s Last Tape evolves a shattering drama out of a monologue of a man who, at age sixty-nine, plays back the autobiographical tape he recorded...
Book cover of Nohow On

Nohow On

Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho

by Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014

The three pieces that comprise this volume are among the most delicate and disquieting of Samuel Beckett’s later prose. Each confined to a single consciousness in a closed space, these stories are a testament to the mind’s boundless expanse. In Company, a man-"one on his back in the dark"-hears...
Book cover of Set-Theoretic Paradoxes and their Resolution in Z-F
by Samuel Horelick
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2012

Countable/Uncountable sets, Sizes of Infinity, "Hilbert Hotels", Power set, Cantor’s theorem and Paradox, Russell’s paradox, Zermelo's axioms for set theory, Essentials of Axiomatic method, Continuum Hypotheses, Unlimited Abstraction Principle and Separation Principle, Undecidability...
Book cover of Mike and I and the Great Adventure
by Samuel David
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015

This story is based on two runaway young boys who in 1968 manage to spend an equivalent in today’s money 210,000 dollars in a few short weeks. It is a true story and tells how they started out to do one thing, then fate intervened, and the adventure took on a completely different direction. All...
Book cover of First Love and Other Shorts
by Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

'First Love', a man's musings about his youth occasioned by his visit to his father's grave, was first written by Samuel Beckett in French in 1945, but it wasn't until 1973 that he completed this the English translation.
Book cover of How It Is
by Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007

“It is one thing to be informed by Shakespeare that life “is a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing”; it is something else to encounter the idea literally presented in a novel by Samuel Beckett. But I am reasonably certain that a sensitive reader who journeys through How It Is will leave the...
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