title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Original Short Stories — Volume 09 | Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893 | en | | Toine -- Madame Husson's rosier -- The adopted son -- A coward -- Old Mongilet -- Moonlight -- The first snowfall -- Sundays of a bourgeois -- A recollection -- Our letters -- The love of long ago -- Friend Joseph -- The effeminates -- Old amable. | | | 2004-10-03 |
The Very Small Person | Donnell, Annie Hamilton, 1862- | en | | Little blue overalls -- The boy -- The adopted -- Bobby unwelcome -- The little girl who should have been a boy -- The lie -- The princess of make-believe -- The promise -- The little lover -- The child -- The recompense. | Elliott, Elizabeth Shippen Green, 1871-1954 [Illustrator] | | 2009-07-13 |
The Legacy of Cain | Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 | en | | | | England -- Fiction; Children of women prisoners -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Adopted children -- Fiction; Clergy -- Fiction | 1999-11-01 |
Silas Marner | Eliot, George, 1819-1880 | en | | | | England -- Fiction; Domestic fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Weavers -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Adopted children -- Fiction; Foundlings -- Fiction | 1996-06-01 |
Make or Break
or, The Rich Man's Daughter | Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897 | en | | | | Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Merchants -- Juvenile fiction; Adopted children -- Juvenile fiction; Inheritance and succession -- Juvenile fiction | 2008-09-23 |
Golden Stories
A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers | Various | en | | The Night Express -- Over The Garden Wall -- Rural Insurance -- His Honor, The District Judge -- A Fog-horn Conclusion -- Mary Jane's Diversion -- Between Friends -- The Hammerpond Burglary -- A Fo'c's'le Tragedy -- The Adopted Son -- Providence And Mrs. Urmy -- The Million Dollar Freight Train -- The Bulldog Breed -- Ice In June -- The Ditty-box -- The Yellow Cat -- A Cock And Policeman -- Prisoners In The Tower -- Sankey's Double-header -- Aunt Mary Telegraphs -- The Vengeance Of The Wolf -- The Wooing Of Bettina -- The Jam God -- When Father Worked. | | | 2006-09-22 |
Michael Penguyne
Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast | Kingston, William Henry Giles, 1814-1880 | en | | | | Christian life -- Juvenile fiction; Fishers -- Juvenile fiction; Orphans -- Juvenile fiction; Courtship -- Juvenile fiction; Adopted children -- Juvenile fiction | 2007-10-25 |
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942 | en | | A fortunate mistake -- An unpremeditated ceremony -- At the Bay Shore Farm -- Elizabeth's child -- Freda's adopted grave -- How Don was saved -- Miss Madeline's proposal -- Miss Sally's company -- Mrs. March's revenge -- Nan -- Natty of Blue Point -- Penelope's party waist -- The girl and the wild race -- The promise of Lucy Ellen -- The pursuit of the ideal -- The softening of Miss Cynthia -- Them notorious pigs -- Why not ask Miss Price? | | | 2008-03-19 |
The Path of Duty, and Other Stories | Caswell, Harriet S., 1834- | en | | Clara Roscom, or The path of duty -- Terry Dolan -- The faithful wife -- Emma Ashton -- Thoughts on Autumn -- Wandering Davy -- Looking on the dark side -- Edward Barton -- The weary at rest -- The rainy afternoon -- The student's dream -- Uncle Ephraim -- Story of a log cabin -- Hazel-Brook farm -- Old Rufus -- The diamond ring -- The unfortunate man -- The old schoolhouse -- Arthur Sinclair -- The snow storm -- The new year -- Earnest Harwood, or The adopted son. | | Pastoral fiction; Short stories; Family -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Country life -- Fiction | 2006-04-15 |