FREE BOOKS

Author's List




entries : 3
<<<   1  
titlecreatorlanguagedescriptiontableOfContentscontributorsubjectcreated
The Cobbler In The Devil's Kitchen From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899Catherwood, Mary Hartwell, 1847-1902enMackinac Island (Mich. : Island) -- Fiction; United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Michigan -- Fiction2007-10-30
Told in the Coffee House Turkish TalesenHow the Hodja saved Allah -- Better is the folly of woman than the wisdom of man -- The Hanoum and the unjust Cadi -- What happended to Hadji, a merchant of the Bezestan -- How the junkman travelled to find treasure in his own yard -- How Chapkin Halid became chief detective -- How cobbler Ahmet became the chief astrologer -- The wise son of Ali Pasha -- The merciful Khan -- King Kara-Kush of Bithynia -- The prayer rug and the dishonest steward -- The goose, the eye, the daughter and the arm -- The forty wise men -- How the priest knew that it would snow -- Who was the thirteenth son? -- Paradise sold by the yard -- Jew turned Turk -- The metamorphosis -- The Calif Omar -- Kalaidji Avram of Balata -- How Mehmet Ali Pasha of Egypt administered justice -- How the farmer learned to cure his wife, a Turkish Aesop -- The language of birds -- The swallow's advice -- We know not what the dawn may bring forth -- Old men made young -- The bribe -- How the Devil lost his wager -- The effects of Raki.Tales -- Turkey; Folklore -- Turkey2009-12-02
Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — CompleteLa Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695enLa Fontaine's life -- Preface -- Joconde -- The Cudgelled and Contented Cuckold -- The Husband Confessor -- The Cobbler -- The Peasant and His Angry Lord -- The Muleteer -- The Servant Girl Justified -- The Three Gossips' Wager -- The Old Man's Calendar -- The Avaricious Wife and Tricking Gallant -- The Jealous Husband -- The Gascon Punished -- The Princess Betrothed to the King of Garba -- The Magick Cup -- The Falcon -- The Little Dog -- The Eel Pie -- The Magnificent -- The Ephesian Matron -- Belphegor -- The Little Bell -- The Glutton -- The Two Friends -- The Country Justice Alice Sick -- The Kiss Returned -- Sister Jane -- An Imitation of Anacreon -- Another Imitation of Anacreon -- Preface To The Second Book -- Friar Philip's Geese -- Richard Minutolo -- The Monks of Catalonia -- The Cradle -- St. Julian's Prayer -- The Countryman Who Sought His Calf -- Hans Carvel's Ring -- The Hermit -- The Convent -- Gardener of Lamporechio -- The Mandrake -- The Rhemese -- The Amorous Courtesan -- Nicaise -- The Progress of Wit -- The Sick Abbess -- The Truckers -- The Case of Conscience -- The Devil of Pope-fig Island -- Feronde -- The Psalter -- King Candaules and the Doctor of Laws -- The Devil in Hell -- Neighbour Peter's Mare -- The Spectacles -- The Bucking Tub -- The Impossible Thing -- The Picture -- The Pack-Saddle -- The Ear-maker, and the Mould-mender -- The River Scamander -- The Confidant Without Knowing It, or the Stratagem -- The Clyster -- The Indiscreet Confession -- The Contract -- The Quid Pro Quo, or the Mistakes -- The Dress-maker -- The Gascon -- The Pitcher -- To Promise is One Thing, to Keep It, Another -- The Nightingale -- Epitaph of La Fontaine.2004-09-21




Top keywords:

Fontaine

 

Island

 

Fiction

 

Turkey

 

Turkish

 

Anacreon

 
Imitation
 
Little
 

Another

 
Mackinac

Gascon
 

Preface

 
Husband
 

Cobbler

 

Justice

 

Returned

 
Cradle
 
Minutolo
 

Second

 

Country


Philip

 
Richard
 

Sister

 

Catalonia

 
Falcon
 

Avaricious

 

Calendar

 
Tricking
 
Gallant
 

Punished


Jealous

 

Servant

 

Muleteer

 

Justified

 

Gossips

 

Princess

 

Betrothed

 

Matron

 

Ephesian

 

Belphegor


Glutton

 

Magnificent

 

Magick

 

Julian

 

Friends

 
Progress
 
Confidant
 

Scamander

 
Without
 

Knowing