| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| Books and Authors
Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches | Anonymous | en | | | | Authors; Literature -- Anecdotes | 2009-11-02 |
| Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 | Disraeli, Isaac, 1766-1848 | en | | | Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 [Editor] | Literature; Literature -- Anecdotes; English literature -- History and criticism | 2005-07-24 |
| Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 | Disraeli, Isaac, 1766-1848 | en | | | Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 [Editor] | Literature -- Anecdotes; English literature -- History and criticism; Literature | 2007-05-26 |
| Old Fogy
His Musical Opinions and Grotesques | Huneker, James, 1857-1921 | en | | | | Music -- Anecdotes; Piano music | 2006-12-19 |
| Anecdotes for Boys | Newcomb, Harvey, 1803-1863 | en | | | | Conduct of life; Boys | 2008-05-20 |
| The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Volume 13, No. 365, April 11, 1829 | Various | en | | | | Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Anecdotes, facetiae, satire; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Education | 2004-07-10 |
| Coronation Anecdotes | Gossip, Giles | en | | | | | 2008-12-22 |
| The Book of the Bush
Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial
Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others
Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned | Dunderdale, George, 1822-1903 | en | | | Macfarlane, J. [Illustrator] | Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia; Australia -- History -- Anecdotes; Australia -- History -- 1788-1900 | 2005-07-24 |
| Wild Animals at Home | Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946 | en | | | | Animal behavior; Animals -- Anecdotes; Animals -- Fiction | 2009-01-25 |
| The Romance of Mathematics
Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham
College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social
Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces;
and the Laws of Political Motion. | Hampson, P. | en | | | | Mathematics; Science -- Humor; Science -- Anecdotes | 2008-08-29 |
| The White Road to Verdun | Burke, Kathleen, 1887-1958 | en | | | | World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives; World War, 1914-1918 -- Anecdotes | 2005-10-25 |
| Personal Reminiscences in Book Making
and Some Short Stories | Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894 | en | | Introductory -- Life in the Bell Rock lighthouse -- Nights with the fire bridgade -- A war of mercy -- Descent into the Cornish mines -- The land of the vikings -- The burglars and the parson -- Jim Greeley, the North Sea skipper -- A northern waif -- How to make the best of life: from a young man's standpoint -- Forgive and forget: a lifeboat story -- "Rescue the perishing" -- A knotty question -- Two remarkable dreams. | | Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894 -- Anecdotes; Authorship; Short stories | 2007-06-07 |
| A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs | Hutton, Laurence, 1843-1904 | en | | | | Hutton, Laurence, 1843-1904; Dogs -- Anecdotes | 2009-06-01 |
| Between the Lines
Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After | Smith, Henry Bascom, -1916 | en | | | | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; United States. Secret Service; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Anecdotes | 2008-02-07 |
| Creatures of the Night
A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain | Rees, Alfred Wellesley, 1872-1917 | en | | The otter: I. The holt among the alders. II. The pool beneath the farmstead. III. The gorge of Alltycafn.
The water-vole: I. Our village hounds. II. The burrow in the river bank. III. Wild hunting. IV. Saved by an enemy. V. The courage of fear.
The field-vole: I. Hidden pathways in the grass. II. The valley of Olwen. III. A barren hillside.
The fox: I. The last hunt. II. A new home. III. The cub and the polecat. IV. A cry of the night.
The brown hare: I. The upland cornfield. II. March madness. III. The chase.
The badger: I. A woodland solitude. II. Home discipline. III. Fear of the trap. IV. The winter "oven." V. Hillside trails.
The hedgehog: I. A vagabond hunter. II. An experience in snake-killing.
Night in the woods: I. Haunts of the badger and the fox. II. The Crag of Vortigern. | | Animal behavior; Animals -- Anecdotes | 2009-07-08 |
| Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy
A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. | Anonymous | en | | Adventures of Capt. Woodward and Five Seamen in the island of Celebes -- An Occurrence at sea -- Loss of H. B. M ship Phœnix, off Cuba -- An account of the Whale Fishery, with anecdotes of the dangers attending it -- Loss of the Brig Tyrrel -- Loss of the Peggy -- Loss of H. B. M. ship Litchfield -- Wreck of the Rothsay Castle Steamer -- Loss of the French ship Droits de L'Homme -- Loss of H. B. M. ship Queen Charlotte -- A Scene on the Atlantic Ocean -- Wreck of the French Frigate Medusa, on the Arguin Bank -- Loss of the Royal George -- Loss of the Æneas, transport -- The Absent Ship -- Loss of the Halsewell, East Indiaman -- An account of Four Russians, abandoned on the Island of East Spitzbergen -- Loss of the Amphitrite, Female Convict Ship -- The Mutineers, a Tale of the Sea -- Fate of Seven Sailors, left on the island of St. Maurice -- Seamen wintering in Spitzbergen -- A Man Overboard -- An Escape through the Cabin-Windows -- Tom Cringle's Log -- Loss of the Nautilus, Sloop of War -- Wreck of a Slave Ship -- The Wrecked Seamen -- Adventures of Philip Ashton -- Explosion of H. B. M. ship Amphion -- Loss of H. B. M. ship La Tribune -- Burning of the Prince, a French East Indiaman -- Wreck of the Schooner Betsey -- Early American Heroism -- Fingal's Cave -- Loss of H. B. M. ship Ramillies -- Preservation of Nine Seamen -- Capt. Ross's Expedition -- Loss of the Catharine, Venus, and Piedmont, transports, and three Merchant Ships -- Wreck of the Ship Sidney -- Loss of the Duke William, transport -- Commodore Barney -- Naval Battles of the United States -- Address to the Ocean. | | Shipwrecks; Mutiny; Pirates; Seafaring life | 2008-07-06 |
| The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II | | en | | Of Companions and Flatterers. by Steele
The Story-Teller and His Art. by Steele
Sir Roger and the Widow. by Steele
The Coverley Family Portraits. by Steele
On Certain Symptoms of Greatness. by Steele
How to Be Happy tho Married. by Steele
Of the Shortness of Human Life. by Bolingbroke
Rules for the Study of History. by Bolingbroke
An Ancient English Country Seat. by Pope
His Compliments to Lady Mary. by Pope
How to Make an Epic Poem. by Pope
On Happiness in the Matrimonial State. by Montagu
Inoculation for the Smallpox. by Montagu
Of Good Manners, Dress and the World. by Chesterfield
Of Attentions to Ladies. by Chesterfield
Tom the Hero Enters the Stage; Partridge Sees Garrick at the Play. by Fielding from "Tom Jones"
Mr. Adams in a Political Light. by Fielding from "Joseph Andrews"
On Publishing His "Dictionary." by Johnson from the "Dictionary"
Pope and Dryden Compared. by Johnson from the "Lives of the Poets"
Letter to Chesterfield on the Completion of the "Dictionary." by Johnson from Boswell's "Life"
On the Advantages of Living in a Garret. by Johnson
The Character of Queen Elizabeth; The Defeat of the Armada. by Hume from the "History of England"
The First Principles of Government. by Hume
The Starling in Captivity; To Moulines with Maria. by Sterne from "The Sentimental Journey"
The Death of LeFevre; Passages from the Romance of My Uncle Toby and the Widow. by Sterne from "Tristram Shandy"
Warwick Castle. by Gray
To His Friend Mason on the Death of Mason's Mother. by Gray
On His Own Writings. by Gray
His Friendship for Bonstetten. by Gray
Hogarth. by Walpole from the "Anecdotes of Painting in England"
The War in America. by Walpole
The Death of George II. by Walpole
The Chimney Swallow. by White from "The Natural History of Selborne"
Of Ambition Misdirected. by Smith from the "Theory of Moral Sentiments"
The Advantages of a Division of Labor. b | | | 2007-06-08 |