| Danger! and Other Stories | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 | en | | Danger -- One crowded hour -- A point of view -- The fall of Lord Barrymore -- The horror of the heights -- Borrowed scenes -- The surgeon of Gaster Fell -- How it happened -- The prisoner's defence -- Three of them: A chat about children, snakes, and zebus; About cricket; Speculations; The leatherskin tribe. | | Science fiction; Short stories, English | 2007-08-19 |
| Many Cargoes | Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943 | en | | A change of treatment -- A love passage -- The captain's exploit -- Contraband of war -- A black affair -- The skipper of the "Osprey" -- In borrowed plumes -- The boatswain's watch -- Low water -- In mid-Atlantic -- After the inquest -- In Limehouse Reach -- An elaborate elopement -- The cook of the "Gannet" -- A benefit performance -- A case of desertion -- Outsailed -- Mated -- The rival beauties -- Mrs. Bunker's chaperon -- A harbour of refuge. | | England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Humorous stories, English; River life -- Fiction | 2004-05-01 |