title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Plays of Near & Far | Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron, 1878-1957 | en | | The Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles
The Flight of the Queen
Cheezo
A Good Bargain
If Shakespeare Lived To-day
Fame and the Poet. | | | 2006-09-27 |
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689 | en | | The town-fop; or, Sir Timothy Tawdrey -- The false count -- The lucky chance; or, An alderman's bargain -- The forc'd marriage; or, The jealous bridegroom -- The emperor of the moon. | Summers, Montague, 1880-1948 [Editor] | | 2003-11-01 |
The Best American Humorous Short Stories | | en | Edited and introduced by Alexander Jessup | The little Frenchman and his water lots -- The angel of the odd -- The schoolmaster's progress -- The Watkinson evening -- Titbottom's spectacles -- My double; and how he undid me -- A visit to the asylum for aged and decayed punsters -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- Elder Brown's backslide -- The hotel experience of Mr. Pink Fluker -- The nice people -- The Buller-Podington compact -- Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff -- The duplicity of Hargraves -- Bargain day at Tutt House -- A call -- How the widow won the deacon -- Gideon. | | | 2004-02-01 |
Off-Hand Sketches
A Little Dashed with Humor | Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay), 1809-1885 | en | | The circuit-preacher -- The protest -- Retrenchment; or, what a man saved by stopping his newspaper -- Hunting up a testimonial -- Trying to be a gentleman -- Taking a prescription -- The Yankee and the Dutchman; or, I'll give or take -- A tipsy parson -- Much ado about nothing; or, the reason why Mrs. Todd didn't speak to Mrs. Jones -- Almost a tragedy -- That John Mason -- A new way to collect an old debt -- A shocking bad memory -- Driving a hard bargain -- Out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, the love of a house -- Marrying a count -- Job's comforters; or, the lady with the nerves -- The code of honour -- Treating a case actively. | | | 2003-11-01 |
Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series
To which is added The Cream of Wit and Humour
from his Popular Writings | Hartley, John, 1839-1915 | en | | Th' Better Part -- Done Agean -- Latter Wit -- My Gronfayther's Days -- Heart Brocken -- To a Daisy -- A Bad Sooart -- All we Had -- Give it 'em Hot -- Th' Honest Hard Worker -- Niver Heed -- Sing On -- What aw Want -- What it is to be Mother -- What is It -- Come thi Ways! -- Advice to Jenny -- Ther's mich Expected -- A Strange Stooary -- Take Heart -- Did yo Iver -- An Old Man's Christmas Morning -- Billy Bumble's Bargain -- Moral -- Rejected -- Duffin Johnie -- Lost Love -- Th' Traitle Sop -- To Let -- Fault Finders -- Disapointment -- Work Away -- New Machinery &c -- September Month -- A Hawporth -- Buttermilk &c -- It's a comfort -- Progress -- Try Again -- Jealousy -- Winter -- Persevere -- Booith-Taan Election -- Election -- None think Alike -- Seaside | | | 2006-02-19 |