| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 | Various | en | | Old Crompton's Secret / Harl Vincent
Spawn of the Stars / Charles Willard Diffin
The Corpse on the Grating / Hugh B. Cave
Creatures of the Light / Sophie Wenzel Ellis
Into Space / S. P. Meek
The Beetle Horde (Part 2 of 2) / Victor Rousseau
Mad Music / Anthony Pelcher
The Thief of Time / S. P. Meek | Bates, Harry, 1900-1981 [Editor] | Science fiction -- Periodicals; Science fiction, American -- Periodicals | 2009-04-26 |
| My Contemporaries In Fiction | Murray, David Christie, 1847-1907 | en | | First, the critics, and then a word on Dickens -- Charles Reade -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Living masters, Meredith and Hall Caine -- Living masters, Rudyard Kipling -- Under French encouragement,Thomas Hardy -- Under French encouragement, George Moore -- Mr. S.R. Crockett, Ian Maclaren -- Dr. Macdonald and Mr. J.M. Barrie -- The problem seekers, sea captain and land captain -- Miss Marie Corelli -- The Americans -- The young romancers. | | | 2007-08-01 |
| Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 | en | | The 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 illusions | 2008-02-05 |
| Evolution in Modern Thought | | en | | Darwin's predecessors, by J.A. Thomson -- The selection theory, by A. Weismann -- Heredity and variation in modern lights, by W. Bateson -- "The descent of man," by G. Schwalbe -- Charles Darwin as an anthropologist, by E. Haeckel -- Mental factors in evolution, by C.L. Morgan -- The influence of the conception of evolution on modern philosophy, by H. Höffding -- The influence of Darwin upon religious thought, by P.H. Waggett -- Darwinism and history, by J.B. Bury -- Darwinism and sociology, by C. Bouglé. | | | 2007-08-29 |
| Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green | Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927 | en | | Reginald Blake, financier and cad -- An item of fashionable intelligence -- Blasé Billy -- The choice of Cyril Harjohn -- The materialisation of Charles and Mivanway -- Portrait of a lady -- The man who would manage -- The man who lived for others -- A man of habit -- The absent-minded man -- A charming woman -- Whibley's spirit -- The man who went wrong -- The hobby rider -- The man who did not believe in luck -- Dick Dunkerman's cat -- The minor poet's story -- The degeneration of Thomas Henry -- The city of the sea -- Driftwood. | | Short stories, English; Manners and customs -- Fiction | 2000-06-01 |
| Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis | Various | en | Appreciations by Gouverneur Morris, Booth Tarkington, Charles Dana Gibson, E. L. Burlingame, Augustus Thomas, Theodore Roosevelt, Irvin S. Cobb, John Fox, Jr., Finley Peter Dunne, Winston Churchill, Leonard Wood, John T. McCutcheon. | | | Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography | 1996-01-01 |
| Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States: Illustrated by Those in the State of Indiana
First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pa | Royce, Charles C., 1845-1923 | en | | | | Indian land transfers -- United States; Indian land transfers -- Indiana; Indians of North America -- Government relations; Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Indiana | 2005-11-24 |
| Appreciations, with an Essay on Style | Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 | en | Unaccented version in 7awae10.txt and 7awae10.zip, accented versions in 8awae10.txt and 8awae10.zip | Style -- Wordsworth -- Coleridge -- Charles Lamb -- Sir Thomas Browne -- "Love's labours lost -- "Measure for measure." -- Shakespeare's English kings -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Feuillet's "La morte." -- Postscript | | English literature -- History and criticism; Style, Literary | 2003-05-01 |
| The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 | en | Magazine Edition | The Adventure of the empty house
The adventure of the Norwood builder
The adventure of the dancing men
The adventure of the solitary cyclist
The adventure of the priory school
The adventure of Black Peter
The adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
The adventure of the six Napoleons
The adventure of the three students
The adventure of the golden pince-nez
The adventure of the missing three-quarter
The adventure of the Abbey Grange
The adventure of the second stain | | Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Detective and mystery stories, English; Private investigators -- England -- Fiction | 1995-02-01 |
| Letters to Dead Authors | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 | en | | To W. M. Thackeray -- To Charles Dickens -- To Pierre de Ronsard -- To Herodotus -- Epistle to Mr. Alexander Pope -- To Lucian of Samosata -- To Maitre Francoys Rabelais -- To Jane Austen -- To Master Isaak Walton -- To M. Chapelain -- To Sir John Manndeville, kt. -- To Alexandre Dumas -- To Theocritus -- To Edgar Allan Poe -- To Sir Walter Scott, bart. -- To Eusebius of Caesarea -- To Percy Bysshe Shelley -- To Monsieur de Molière, valet de chambre du roi -- To Robert Burns -- To Lord Byron -- To Omar Khayyám -- To Q. Horatius Flaccus. | | Literature; Authors | 2002-07-01 |
| The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 | | en | | The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, by Daniel Defoe -- The Mysterious Bride, by James Hogg -- The Devil and Tom Walker, by Washington Irving -- Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe -- Rab and His Friends, by Dr. John Brown -- The Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn, by Charles Dickens -- A Story of Seven Devils, by Frank R. Stockton -- A Dog's Tale, by Mark Twain -- The Outcasts of Poker Flat, by Bret Harte -- The Three Strangers, by Thomas Hardy -- Julia Bride, by Henry James -- A Lodging for the Night, by Robert Louis Stevenson. | | | 2003-11-01 |
| A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others | | en | | Dickens, C. A Christmas carol -- Sangster, M. E. The Christmas babe -- Corning, Mrs. W. H. A western Christmas -- Bacheller, I. Joe's search for Santa Claus -- Schayer, J. Angela's Christmas -- The first Puritan Christmas tree -- Butterworth, H. First New England Christmas -- Dickens, C. The chimes -- Redmond, C. Billy's Santa Claus experience -- Stowe, Mrs. H. B. Christmas in Poganuc -- Molesworth, Mrs. The Christmas princess -- Widow Townsend's visitor -- Wilcox, E. W. The old man's Christmas -- Dickens, C. The Christmas goblin -- Mead, C. H. The song of the star -- Collingwood, H. W. Indian Pete's Christmas gift -- My Christmas dinner -- Dickens, C. The poor traveler -- The legend of the Christmas tree -- Ewing, J. H. The peace egg. | | | 2009-02-26 |
| The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire | Morris, Charles, 1833-1922 | en | | | | San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906; Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century; Fires -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century; San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography | 2006-05-03 |
| The Spinner's Book of Fiction | Various | en | | Concha Argüello, Sister Dominica, by Gertrude Atherton -- The Ford of Crèvecœur, by Mary Austin -- A Californian, by Geraldine Bonner -- Gideon's Knock, by Mary Halleck Foote -- A Yellow Man and a White, by Eleanor Gates -- The Judgment of Man, by James Hopper -- The League of the Old Men, by Jack London -- Down the Flume with the Sneath Piano, by Bailey Millard -- The Contumacy of Sarah L. Walker, by Miriam Michelson -- Breaking Through, by W. C. Morrow -- A Lost Story, by Frank Norris -- Hantu, by Henry Milner Rideout -- Miss. Juno, by Charles Warren Stoddard -- A Little Savage Gentleman, by Isobel Strong -- Love and Advertising, by Richard Walton Tully -- The Tewana, by Herman Whitaker. | | | 2007-01-11 |
| The Historical Nights' Entertainment
First Series | Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 | en | | The night of Holyrood: the murder of David Rizzio -- The night of Kirk o'Field: the murder of Darnley -- The night of betrayal: Antonio Perez and Philip II of Spain -- The night of charity: the case of the Lady Alice Lisle -- The night of massacre: the story of the St. Bartholomew -- The night of witchcraft: Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan -- The night of gems: the affairs of the queen's necklace -- The night of terror: the drownings at Nantes under Carrier -- The night of nuptials: Charles the Bold and Sapphira Danvelt -- The night of stranglers: Giovanna of Naples and Andreas of Hungary -- The night of hate: the murder of the Duke of Gandia -- The night of escape: Casanova's escape from the Piombi -- The night of masquerade: the assassination of Gustavus III of Sweden. | | | 2001-05-01 |
| History of Company F, 1st Regiment, R.I. Volunteers, during the Spring and Summer of 1861 | Clarke, Charles H. | en | | | | United States. Army. Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865). Company F; Rhode Island. Militia; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; Rhode Island -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories | 2009-04-02 |
| The French Immortals Series — Complete | Various | en | | An Attic Philosopher by E. Souvestre -- Madame Chrysantheme by Pierre Loti -- Conscience by Hector Malot -- Gerfaut by Charles de Bernard -- Fromont and Risler by Alphonse Daudet -- The Ink-Stain by Rene Bazin -- Jacqueline by Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc) -- Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget -- A Romance of Youth by Francois Coppee -- L'Abbe Constantin by Ludovic Halevy -- Cinq Mars by Alfred de Vigny -- Monsieur de Camors by Octave Feuillet -- Child of The Century Alfred de Musset -- A Woodland Queen by Andre Theuriet -- Zebiline by Phillipe de Masa -- Prince Zilah by Jules Claretie -- Monsieur, Madame and Bebe by Gustave Droz -- The Red Lily by Anatole France -- Serge Panine by Georges Ohnet. | | Literature -- Collections; French fiction | 2004-10-30 |
| Harvard Classics Volume 28
Essays English and American | | en | | Jonathan Swift by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
What is a University?; Site of a University; University Life at Athens by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
The Study of Poetry by MATTHEW ARNOLD
Sesame: of Kings' Treasuries; Lilies: of Queens' Gardens by JOHN RUSKIN
John Milton by WALTER BAGEHOT
Science and Culture by THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Race and Language by EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN
Truth of Intercourse; Samuel Pepys by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The Poetic Principle by EDGAR ALLAN POE
Walking by HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Abraham Lincoln; Democracy by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. | Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 [Editor] | English essays; American essays | 2007-06-29 |
| Rídan The Devil And Other Stories
1899 | Becke, Louis, 1855-1913 | en | | Rídan 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 stories | 2008-03-15 |
| Men of Invention and Industry | Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 | en | | Phineas Pett : beginnings of English shipbuilding -- Francis Pettit Smith, practical introducer of the screw propeller -- John Harrison, inventor of the marine chronometer -- John Lombe, introducer of the silk industry into England -- William Murdock, his life and inventions -- Frederick Koenig, inventor of the steam-printing machine -- The Walters of the "Times" : invention of the Walter press -- William Clowes : book-printing by steam -- Charles Bianconi : a lesson of self-help in Ireland -- Industry in Ireland : through Connaught and Ulster to Belfast -- Ship-building in Belfast / by E.J. Harland, engineer and shipbuilder -- Astronomers and students in humble life : a new chapter in the "Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties". | | Inventors -- Biography; Industrial arts -- Biography | 1996-11-01 |
| My Literary Passions | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 | en | | The Bookcase at Home -- Goldsmith -- Cervantes -- Irving -- First Fiction and Drama -- Longfellow's "Spanish Student" -- Scott -- Lighter Fancies -- Pope -- Various Preferences -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Ossian -- Shakespeare -- Ik Marvel -- Dickens -- Wordsworth, Lowell, Chaucer -- Macaulay -- Critics and Reviews -- A Non-literary Episode -- Thackeray -- "Lazarillo De Tormes" -- Curtis, Longfellow, Schlegel -- Tennyson -- Heine -- De Quincey, Goethe, Longfellow -- George Eliot, Hawthorne, Goethe, Heine -- Charles Reade -- Dante -- Goldoni, Manzoni, D'azeglio -- "Pastor Fido," "Aminta," "Romola," "Yeast," "Paul Ferroll" -- Erckmann-chatrian, Bjorstjerne Bjornson -- Tourguenief, Auerbach -- Certain Preferences and Experiences -- Valdes, Galdos, Verga, Zola, Trollope, Hardy -- Tolstoy | | | 2004-10-22 |
| The Best Short Stories of 1917
and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | | en | | Excursion / Edwina Stanton Babcock -- Onnie / Thomas Beer -- Cup of tea / Maxwell Struthers Burt -- Lonely places / Francis Buzzell -- Boys will be boys / Irvin S. Cobb -- Laughter / Charles Caldwell Dobie -- Emperor of Elam / H.G. Dwight -- Gay old dog / Edna Ferber -- Knight's move / Katharine Fullerton Gerould -- Jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Bunker mouse / Frederick Stuart Greene -- Rainbow Pete / Richard Matthews Hallet -- Get ready the wreaths / Fannie Hurst -- Strange looking man / Fanny Kemble Johnson --Caller in the night / Burton Kline -- Interval / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Certain rich man / Lawrence Perry -- Path of glory / Mary Brecht Pulver -- Ching, ching, chinaman / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- None so blind / Mary Synon. | O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington, 1890-1941 [Editor] | American fiction -- 20th century; Short stories, American | 2007-03-22 |
| The Poetical Works of John Milton | Milton, John, 1608-1674 | en | | PREFACE by the Rev. H. C. Beeching, M. A.
THE STATIONER TO THE READER.
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
ON THE MORNING OF CHRISTS NATIVITY. / Compos'd 1629.
The Hymn.
THE PASSION.
On Time.
UPON THE CIRCUMCISION.
AT A SOLEMN MUSICK.
AN EPITAPH ON THE MARCHIONESS OF WINCHESTER.
SONG ON MAY MORNING.
ON SHAKESPEAR. 1630.
ANOTHER ON THE SAME.
L'ALLEGRO.
IL PENSEROSO.
SONNETS.
ARCADES.
LYCIDAS.
A MASK PRESENTED At LUDLOW-Castle, 1634. &c.
POEMS ADDED IN THE 1673 EDITION.
SONNETS.
On the new forcers of Conscience under the Long PARLIAMENT.
ON THE LORD GEN. FAIRFAX AT THE SEIGE OF COLCHESTER.
TO SR HENRY VANE THE YOUNGER.
TO MR. CYRIACK SKINNER UPON HIS BLINDNESS.
COLLECTION OF PASSAGES TRANSLATED IN THE PROSE WRITINGS.
[From Of Reformation in England, 1641.]
[From Reason of Church Government, 1641.]
[From Apology for Smectymnuus, 1642.]
[From Areopagitica, 1644.]
[From Tetrachordon, 1645.]
[From The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, 1649.]
[From History of Britain, 1670.]
PARADISE LOST.
PARADISE REGAIN'D.
SAMSON AGONISTES
The ARGUMENT.
APPENDIX.
ON TIME | Beeching, H. C. (Henry Charles), 1859-1919 [Editor] | | 1999-05-01 |
| Children of the Tenements | Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914 | en | | The rent baby -- A story of Bleecker Street -- The kid hangs up his stocking -- The slipper-maker's fast -- Death comes to Cat Alley -- A proposal on the elevated -- Little Will's message -- Lost children -- Paolo's awakening -- The little dollar's Christmas journey -- The kid -- When the letter came -- The cat took the kosher meat -- Nibsy's Christmas -- In the children's hospital -- Nigger Martha's wake -- What the Christmas sun saw in the tenements -- Midwinter in New York -- A chip from the maelstrom -- Sarah Joyce's husbands -- Merry Christmas in the tenements -- Abe's game of jacks -- A little picture -- A dream of the woods -- 'Twas 'Liza's doings -- Heroes who fight fire -- John Gavin, misfit -- A heathen baby -- The christening in Bottle Alley -- In the Mulberry Street court -- Difficulties of a deacon -- Fire in the barracks -- War on the goats -- He kept his tryst -- Rover's last fight -- How Jim went to the war -- A backwoods hero -- Jack's sermon -- Skippy of Scrabble Alley -- Making a way out of the slum. | Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark), 1863-1932 [Illustrator] | Short stories, American; Tenement houses -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction | 2007-05-23 |
| The Haunters & The Haunted
Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural | Various | en | | The fall of the house of Usher -- The old nurse's story -- The superstitious Man's story -- A story of Ravenna -- Teig O'Kane and the corpse -- The haunted and the haunters: or the house and the brain -- The Botathen ghost -- The ghost of Lord Clarenceux -- Dr Duthoit's vision -- The seven lights -- The spectral coach of Blackadon -- Drake's drum -- The spectre bridegroom -- The pool in the graveyard -- The Lianhan Shee -- The haunted cove -- Wandering Willie's tale -- Glamis castle -- Powys castle -- Croglin grange -- The ghost of Major Sydenham -- The miraculous case of Jesch Claes -- The radiant boy of Corby castle -- Clerk Saunders -- Dorothy Durant -- Pearlin Jean -- The Denton Hall ghost -- The Goodwood ghost story -- Captain Wheatcroft -- The iron cage -- The ghost of Rosewarne -- The iron chest of Durley -- The strange case of M. Bezuel -- The Marquis de Rambouillet -- The Altheim revenant -- Sertorius and his hind -- Erochtho -- Patroklos -- Vision of Cromwell -- Lord Strafford's warning -- Kotter's red circle -- The vision of Charles XI. of Sweden -- Ben Jonson's prevision -- Queen Ulrica -- Denis Misanger -- The pied piper -- Jeanne d'Arc -- Anne Walker -- The hand of glory -- The bloody footstep -- The ghostly warriors of Worms -- The wandering Jew in England -- Bendith Eu Mammau -- The red book of Appin -- The good O'Donoghue -- Sarah Polgrain -- Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester. | Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946 [Editor] | | 2006-03-09 |