title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Life on the Mississippi, Part 1. | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | | | Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Mississippi River -- Description and travel; Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Pilots and pilotage -- Mississippi River; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- Mississippi River | 2004-07-08 |
Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | | | Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Mississippi River -- Description and travel; Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Pilots and pilotage -- Mississippi River; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- Mississippi River | 2004-07-10 |
Life on the Mississippi, Part 11. | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | | | Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Mississippi River -- Description and travel; Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Pilots and pilotage -- Mississippi River; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- Mississippi River | 2004-07-10 |
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi | Devol, George H., 1829-1903 | en | | | | Devol, George H., 1829-1903; Gambling -- Mississippi River -- History -- 19th century; Gambling on river boats -- Mississippi River -- History -- 19th century; Frontier and pioneer life -- Mississippi River; Gamblers -- Mississippi River -- Biography; Mississippi River -- Description and travel | 2007-11-22 |
The World's Great Men of Music
Story-Lives of Master Musicians | Brower, Harriette, 1869-1928 | en | | Palestrina -- John Sebastian Bach -- George Frederick Handel -- Christoph Willibald Gluck -- Josef Haydn -- Wolfgang Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Carl Maria von Weber -- Franz Schubert -- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- Robert Schumann -- Frederic Chopin -- Hector Berlioz -- Franz Liszt -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Richard Wagner -- César Franck -- Johannes Brahms -- Edward Grieg -- Peter Ilyitch Tschaikowsky -- Edward MacDowell -- Claude Achille Debussy -- Arturo Toscanini -- Leopold Stokowsky -- Serge Koussevitzky. | | Musicians; Composers -- Biography | 2004-08-25 |
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete | Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 | en | Uniform title: Mémoires de Constant. English | | Clark, Walter, 1846-1924 [Translator] | Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Contemporaries; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Relations with valets; Valets -- France -- Biography; Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 | 2004-09-07 |
Life on the Mississippi | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | | | Mississippi River -- Description and travel; Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Pilots and pilotage -- Mississippi River; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Travel -- Mississippi River | 2004-07-10 |
By Canoe and Dog-Train | Young, Egerton Ryerson, 1840-1909 | en | | | | Young, Egerton Ryerson, 1840-1909 -- Travel -- Northwest, Canadian; Cree Indians -- Missions; Ojibwa Indians -- Missions; Missionaries -- Northwest, Canadian -- Biography; Northwest, Canadian -- Description and travel | 2007-04-27 |
A Book of Sibyls
Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen | Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 | en | | | | Women authors, English -- Biography; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | 2009-11-09 |
Hannibal
Makers of History | Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879 | en | | The First Punic War -- Hannibal at Saguntum -- Opening of the Second Punic War -- The passage of the Rhone -- Hannibal crosses the Alps -- Hannibal in the north of Italy -- The Apennines -- The dictator Fabius -- The Battle of Cannae -- Scipio -- Hannibal a fugitive and an exile -- The destruction of Carthage. | | Hannibal, 247-182 B.C. -- Juvenile literature; Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C. -- Juvenile literature; Generals -- Tunisia -- Carthage (Extinct city) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C. -- Juvenile literature; Carthage (Extinct city) -- History -- Juvenile literature | 2008-12-17 |
Kansas Women in Literature | Barker, Nettie Garmer | en | | EFFIE GRAHAM. -- ESTHER M. CLARK. -- MARY VANCE HUMPHREY. -- KATE A. APLINGTON. -- EMMA UPTON VAUGHN. -- JESSIE WRIGHT WHITECOMB. -- MYRA WILLIAMS JARRELL. -- ELLEN PALMER ALLERTON. -- EMMA TANNER WOOD. -- CORNELIA M. STOCKTON. -- MARGARET HILL McCARTER. -- BESSIE MAY BELLMAN. and JUNE BELLMAN HENTHORNE. -- AMANDA T. JONES. -- CHARLOTTE F. WILDER. -- ANNA L. JANUARY. -- HATTIE HORNER LOUTHAN. -- EVA MORLEY MURPHY. -- SALLIE F. TOLER. -- ANNA E. ARNOLD. | | Authors, American -- Kansas; Women authors; Kansas -- Biography | 2008-07-09 |
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki
Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 | | en | | | | Soldiers -- United States -- Biography; World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia (Federation) -- Arkhangelʹsk; World War, 1914-1918 -- United States; Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Personal narratives, American; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Participation, American | 2007-09-05 |
The Choctaw Freedmen
and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy | Flickinger, Robert Elliott, 1846- | en | | | | Alice Lee Elliott Memorial School -- History; Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen -- History; Freedmen -- Oklahoma -- History; African Americans -- Oklahoma -- History; African Americans -- Education -- Oklahoma -- History; Five Civilized Tribes -- History; Religion in the public schools -- United States -- History; Valliant (Okla.) -- History; Valliant (Okla.) -- Church history; Valliant (Okla.) -- Biography | 2007-11-04 |
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 | McCarthy, Carlton, 1847- | en | | | Sheppard, William Ludwell, 1833-1912 [Illustrator] | McCarthy, Carlton, 1847-; Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia -- Military life; Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories | 2008-05-26 |
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 | Acheson, Arthur, 1864-1930 | en | | | | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London; Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of, 1573-1624 -- Friends and associates; Florio, John, 1553?-1625 -- Friends and associates; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Falstaff; Dramatists, English -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London; Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography; Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character); London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century | 2008-02-03 |
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,
and His Romaunt Abroad During the War | Townsend, George Alfred, 1841-1914 | en | | | | Townsend, George Alfred, 1841-1914; War correspondents -- United States -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives; England -- Description and travel; Italy -- Description and travel | 2007-11-05 |
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia | Moore, Edward Alexander, 1842- | en | | | | Moore, Edward Alexander, 1842-; Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863; Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Artillery. Rockbridge Battery, 1st; Soldiers -- Virginia -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate; Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns | 2007-07-13 |
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt | Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798 | en | | Casanova at Dux -- Author's preface -- Translator's preface -- Childhood and adolescence -- A cleric in Naples -- Military career -- Return to Venice -- Milan and Mantua -- Paris -- Venice -- Convent affairs -- The false nun -- Under the leads -- Paris and Holland -- Return to Paris -- Holland and Germany -- Switzerland -- With Voltaire -- Depart Switzerland -- Return to Italy -- Return to Naples -- Back again to Paris -- Milan -- South of France -- To London -- The English -- London to Berlin -- Russia and Poland -- Spain -- Expelled from Spain -- Rome -- Florence to Trieste -- Old age and death. | Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947 [Translator] | Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798; Europe -- History -- 18th century -- Biography | 2004-11-11 |
The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | The 30,000 Dollar Bequest
A Dog's Tale
Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
A Cure for the Blues
The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant
The Californian's Tale
A Helpless Situation
A Telephonic Conversation
Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale
The Five Boons of Life
The First Writing-machines
Italian without a Master
Italian with Grammar
A Burlesque Biography
How to Tell a Story
General Washington's Negro Body-servant
Wit Inspirations of the "Two-year-olds"
An Entertaining Article
A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
Amended Obituaries
A Monument to Adam
A Humane Word from Satan
Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English"
Advice to Little Girls
Post-mortem Poetry
The Danger of Lying in Bed
Portrait of King William III
Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
Extracts from Adam's Diary
Eve's Diary | | Fiction; Short stories | 2004-09-14 |
Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman
With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War | Kidd, James Harvey, 1840-1913 | en | | | | Kidd, James Harvey, 1840-1913; United States. Army. Michigan Cavalry Brigade (1862-1865); Soldiers -- Michigan -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives; Michigan -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; Michigan -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives | 2009-08-04 |
Hospital Sketches | Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 | en | | | | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives; Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 -- Career in nursing; Military nursing -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Nurses -- United States -- Biography; Military hospitals -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women; Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) -- History -- 19th century; Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century | 2003-03-01 |
Essays | Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson, 1847-1922 | en | | WINDS AND WATERS: Ceres' Runaway -- Wells -- Rain -- The Tow Path -- The Tethered Constellations -- Rushes and Reeds -- IN A BOOK ROOM: A Northern Fancy -- Pathos -- Anima Pellegrina! -- A Point of Biography -- The Honours of Mortality -- Composure -- The Little Language -- A Counterchange -- Harlequin Mercutio -- COMMENTARIES: Laughter -- The Rhythm of Life -- Domus Angusta -- Innocence and Experience -- The Hours of Sleep -- Solitude -- Decivilized -- WAYFARING: The Spirit of Place -- Popular Burlesque -- Have Patience, Little Saint -- At Monastery Gates -- The Sea Wall -- ARTS: Tithonus -- Symmetry and Incident -- The Plaid -- The Flower -- Unstable Equilibrium -- Victorian Caricature -- The Point of Honour -- THE CHEARFUL LADIE OF THE LIGHT: The Colour of Life -- The Horizon -- In July -- Cloud -- Shadows -- WOMEN AND BOOKS: The Seventeenth Century -- Mrs. Dingley -- Prue -- Mrs. Johnson -- Madame Roland -- THE DARLING YOUNG: Fellow Travellers with a Bird -- The Child of Tumult -- The Child of Subsiding Tumult -- The Unready -- That Pretty Person -- Under the Early Stars -- The Illusion of Historic Time. | | English essays; English literature | 1998-08-01 |
Daughters of the Puritans
A Group of Brief Biographies | Beach, Seth Curtis, 1837-1932 | en | | Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1789-1867 -- Mary Lovell Ware, 1798-1849 -- Lydia Maria Child, 1802-1880 -- Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1802-1887 -- Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 1810-1850 -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896 -- Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888. | | Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867; Ware, Mary Lovell (Pickard) 1798-1849; Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880; Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887; Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888; Women -- New England -- Biography | 2008-05-24 |
The Celtic Twilight | Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 | en | | This book -- A teller of tales -- Belief and unbelief -- Mortal help -- A visionary -- Village ghosts -- 'Dust hath closed Helen's eye' -- A knight of the sheep -- An enduring heart -- The sorcerers -- The devil -- Happy and unhappy theologians -- The last gleeman -- Regina, regina pigmeorum, veni -- 'And fair, fierce women' -- Enchanted woods -- Miraculous creatures -- Aristotle of the books -- The swine of the gods -- A voice -- Kidnappers -- The untiring ones -- Earth, fire and water -- The old town -- The man and his boots -- A coward -- The three O'Byrnes and the evil faeries -- Drumcliff and Rosses -- The thick skull of the fortunate -- The religion of a sailor -- Concerning the nearness together of heaven, earth, and purgatory -- The eaters of precious stones -- Our Lady of the hills -- The golden age -- A remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the disposition of their ghosts and faeries -- War -- The queen and the fool -- The friends of the people of faery -- Dreams that have no moral -- By the roadside -- Into the twilight. | | Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Childhood and youth; Tales -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Poets, Irish -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Mythology, Celtic -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Poets, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography; Folklore -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Sligo (Ireland : County) -- Social life and customs | 2003-12-01 |