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The Magic Soap BubbleCory, David, 1872-1966enFairy tales; Fantasy; Gnomes -- Juvenile fiction2008-10-17
The Mississippi BubbleHough, Emerson, 1857-1923en2004-11-10
Abijah's BubbleSmith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915enShort stories; Investments -- Fiction; Speculation -- Fiction2007-12-03
Soap-Bubble Stories For ChildrenBarry, FannyenThe troll in the church fountain -- The imp in the chintz curtain -- Heartsease -- A story of Siena -- The stone-maiden -- The grass of Parnassus -- The hedgehog's coffee party -- Uncle Volodia -- The angel and the lilies -- The alphen-echo -- The scroll in the market place -- A scrap of Etruscan pottery -- The goats on the glacier -- The great lady's chief-mourner -- Dame Fossie's China dog -- Princess Sidigunda's golden shoes -- The badger's school -- Bobbie's two shillings.2009-03-06
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of CrowdsMackay, Charles, 1814-1889enThe Mississippi scheme -- The south-sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- The alchymists -- Modern prophecies -- Fortune-telling -- The magnetisers -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- The crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- Popular follies of great cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics.Delusions; Impostors and imposture; Occultism; Social psychology; Swindlers and swindling; Hallucinations and illusions2008-02-05
Penguin Persons & PeppermintsEaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957enPenguin 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
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899Becke, Louis, 1855-1913enRídan the devil -- A memory of "the system" -- A North Pacific lagoon island -- Bilger, of Sydney -- The vision of Milli the slave -- Denison gets a berth ashore -- Addie Ransom -- In a native village -- Maurice Kinane -- The "killers" of Twofold Bay -- Denison's second berth ashore -- A fish drive on a Micronesian atoll -- Bobaran -- Sea fishing in Australia -- An adventure in the New Hebrides -- The south sea bubble of Charles du Breil -- The white wife and the brown "woman" -- With hook and line on an Austral river -- The wreck of the "Leonora" -- An old colonial mutiny -- A boating adventure in the Carolines -- A Christmas Eve in the Far South Seas.Adventure stories, Australian; Pacific Area -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Sea stories; Short stories2008-03-15




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