title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Teddy's Button | Le Feuvre, Amy, -1929 | en | | | | | 2004-01-01 |
Tales of the Jazz Age | Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 | en | | The jelly-bean -- The camel's back -- May Day -- Porcelain and pink -- The diamond as big as the Ritz -- The curious case of Benjamin Button -- Tarquin of Cheapside -- "O Russet witch!" -- The lees of happiness -- Mr. Icky -- Jemina. | | | 2004-10-01 |
The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories | Various | en | | The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras. by Miller. -- A Modern hero. by Harland. -- Benny's Wigwam. by Lee. -- Benny's Disappearance. by Lee. -- How Two Schoolboys Killed a Bear. by Marsh. -- Pete's Printing Press. by Wells. -- Aunt Elizabeth's Fence. by Hebard. -- The Button Boy. by Griffin. -- Dan Hardy's Crippy. by Otis. -- His Three Trials. by Wells. -- In the Second Dormitory. -- by True. -- The Doughnut Bait. by Varney. -- A Real Happening. by Claflin. | | | 2007-05-05 |
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series
Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect | Hartley, John, 1839-1915 | en | | Grimes' New Hat -- Sammywell Sweeps th' Chimley -- Hepsabah's Hat -- Old Dave to th' New Parson -- Sammywell's Eggsperiment -- What came of a Clock Almanac -- Sammywell's Reformation -- Sheffield Smook -- Awr Lad -- Grimes' Galloway -- True Blue; A Romance of Factory Life -- "If aw wor a Woman" -- Sammywell's Soft Snap -- A Bashful Bradfordian -- Th' Owd, Owd Story -- Jim Nation's Fish-shop -- Bob Brierley's Bull Pup -- Troubles and Trials -- Earnin' a Honest Penny -- Th' Next Mornin' -- Christmas Oysters -- Chairley's Coortin -- What a Gallus Button did | | | 2006-04-14 |
Penguin Persons & Peppermints | Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957 | en | | Penguin persons -- Spring comes to Thumping Dick -- The passing of the stage sundial -- On singing songs with one finger -- The immorality of shop-windows -- A forgotten American poet -- New poetry and the lingering line -- The lies we learn in our youth -- The bad manners of polite people -- On giving up golf forever -- "Grape-vine" erudition -- Business before grammar -- Wood ashes and progress -- The vacant room in drama -- On giving an author a plot -- The twilight veil -- Spring in the garden -- The bubble, reputation -- The old house on the bend -- Concerning hat-trees -- The shrinking of Kingman's Field -- Mumblety-peg and middle age -- Barber shops of yesterday -- The button box -- Peppermints. | | | 2008-08-23 |
Humorous Ghost Stories | Scarborough, Dorothy, 1878-1935 | en | | Introduction: The humorous ghost -- The Canterville ghost / by Oscar Wilde -- The ghost-extinguisher / by Gelett Burgess -- "Dey ain't no ghosts" / by Ellis Parker Butler -- The transferred ghost / by Frank R. Stockton -- The mummy's foot / Théophile Gautier -- The rival ghosts / Brander Matthews -- The water ghost of Harrowby Hall / by John Kendrick Bangs -- Back from that bourne / Anonymous -- The ghost-ship / by Richard Middleton -- The transplanted ghost / by Wallace Irwin -- The last ghost in Harmony / by Nelson LLoyd -- The ghost of Miser Brimpson / by Eden Phillpotts -- The haunted photograph / by Ruth McEnery Stuart -- The ghost that got the button / by Will Adams -- The specter bridegroom / by Washington Irving -- The specter of Tappington / compiled by Richard Barham -- In the barn / by Burges Johnson -- A shady plot / by Elsie Brown -- The lady and the ghost / by Rose Cecil O'Neill. | | | 2008-10-18 |