| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| Heart of the West [Annotated] | Henry, O., 1862-1910 | en | | Hearts and Crosses -- The Ransom of Mack -- Telemachus, Friend -- The Handbook of Hymen -- The Pimienta Pancakes -- Seats of the Haughty -- Hygeia at the Solito -- An Afternoon Miracle -- The Higher Abdication -- Cupid a la Carte -- The Caballero's Way -- The Sphinx Apple -- The Missing Chord -- A Call Loan -- The Princess and the Puma -- The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnson -- Christmas by Injunction -- A Chaparral Prince -- The Reformation of Calliope. | Loewenstein, Joseph E. [Annotator] | | 2004-08-03 |
| Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation | Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 | en | | Mr. Jack Hamlin's mediation -- The man at the semaphore -- An Esmeralda of Rocky Cañon -- Dick Spindler's family Christmas -- When the waters were up at "Jules" -- The boom in the "Calaveras Clarion" -- The secret of Sobriente's well -- Liberty Jones's discovery | | American fiction -- 19th century; Short stories | 2006-05-18 |
| Boyhood in Norway
Stories of Boy-Life in the Land of the Midnight Sun | Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth, 1848-1895 | en | | The battle of the rafts -- Biceps Grimlund's Christmas vacation -- The nixy's strain -- The wonder child -- "The sons of the vikings" -- Paul Jespersen's masquerade -- Lady Clare the story of a horse -- Bonnyboy -- The child of luck -- The bear that had a bank account. | | Boys -- Fiction; Norway -- Fiction | 1997-01-01 |
| Frenzied Fiction | Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944 | en | | My revelations as a spy -- Father Knickerbocker: a fantasy -- The prophet in our midst -- Personal adventures in the spirit world -- The sorrows of a summer guest -- To nature and back again -- The cave man as he is -- Ideal interviews -- The new education -- The errors of Santa Claus -- Lost in New York -- This strenuous age -- The old, old story of how five men went fishing -- Back from the land -- The perplexity column as done by the jaded journalist -- Simple stories of success, or How to succeed in life -- In dry Toronto -- Merry Christmas. | | | 2005-07-01 |
| The Sandman: His Sea Stories | Hopkins, William John, 1863-1926 | en | | The September-gale story -- The fire story -- The porpoise story -- The seaweed story -- The flying-fish story -- The log-book story -- The shark story -- The Christmas story -- The sounding story -- The teak-wood story -- The stowaway story -- The albatross story -- The derelict story -- The lighthouse story -- The runaway story -- The Trafalgar story -- The cargo story -- The privateer story -- The race story -- The pilot story -- The driftwood story. | Horne, Diantha W. [Illustrator] | Sea stories; Ships -- Juvenile fiction | 2009-05-10 |
| Chimney-Pot Papers | Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen), 1878-1934 | en | | The chimney-pots -- The quest of the lost digamma -- On a rainy morning -- "1917" -- On going afoot -- On livelihoods -- The tread of the friendly giants -- On spending a holiday -- Runaway studies -- On turning into forty -- On the difference between wit and humor -- On going to a party -- On a pair of leather suspenders -- Boots for runaways -- On hanging a stocking at Christmas. | Endell, Fritz August Gottfried, 1873- [Illustrator] | | 2008-07-04 |
| A Versailles Christmas-Tide | Boyd, Mary Stuart, -1937 | en | | | Boyd, A. S. [Illustrator] | Versailles (France) -- Description and travel; Boyd, Mary Stuart -- Journeys -- France | 2004-01-01 |
| The Daughter of the Storage
And Other Things in Prose and Verse | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 | en | | The daughter of the storage -- A presentiment -- Captain Dunlevy's last trip -- The return to favor -- Somebody's mother -- The face at the window -- An experience -- The boarders -- Breakfast is my best meal -- The mother-bird -- The amigo -- Black Cross farm -- The critical book-store -- A feast of reason -- City and country in the fall -- Table talk -- The escapade of a grandfather -- Self-sacrifice: a farce-tragedy -- The night before Christmas. | | Short stories; Poetry | 2009-09-18 |
| Brave and True
Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others | Fenn, George Manville, 1831-1909 | en | | Brave and True, by E Dawson. -- Two Rough Stones, by George Manville Fenn. -- A Grateful Indian, by Helen Marion Burnside. -- In the Country, by F Gray Severne. -- My Encounter with a Grizzly, by Arthur J Daniels. -- Up the Mountain, by Frances E Crompton. -- A New Set. -- Grandfather’s Hero. -- Bernard’s Experiment. -- Toby the Clown. -- A Christmas Party, by John Strange Winter. -- Haggart’s Lie, by Geraldine Glasgow. | | | 2007-05-04 |
| The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories | Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 | en | | Strength of Gideon--Mammy Peggy's Pride--Viney's Free Papers--The Fruitful Sleeping of The Rev. Elisha Edwards--The Ingrate--The Case of 'Ca'line'--The Finish of Patsy Barnes--One Man's Fortunes--Jim's Probation--Uncle Simon's Sundays Out--Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker--An Old-Time Christmas--A Mess of Pottage--The Trustfulness of Polly--The Tragedy at Three Forks--The Finding of Zach--Johnsonham, Junior--The Faith Cure Man--A Council of State--Silas Jackson | | | 2005-05-23 |
| The Twin Cousins | May, Sophie, 1833-1906 | en | | | | Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Twins -- Juvenile fiction; Cousins -- Juvenile fiction; Christmas -- Juvenile fiction; Aunts -- Juvenile fiction; Friendship -- Juvenile fiction; Christian life -- Juvenile fiction | 2007-11-18 |
| As We Were Saying | Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 | en | | Rose and chrysanthemum -- The red bonnet -- The loss in civilization -- Social screaming -- Does refinement kill individuality? -- The directoire gown -- The mystery of the sex -- The clothes of fiction -- The broad A -- Chewing gum -- Women in congress -- Shall women propose? -- Frocks and the stage -- Altruism -- Social clearing-house -- Dinner-table talk -- Naturalization -- Art of governing -- Love of display -- Value of the commonplace -- The burden of Christmas -- The responsibility of writers -- The cap and gown -- A tendency of the age -- A locoed novelist. | | | 2004-12-05 |
| Roads of Destiny | Henry, O., 1862-1910 | en | | Roads of Destiny -- The Guardian of the Accolade -- The Discounters of Money -- The Enchanted Profile -- "Next to Reading Matter" -- Art and the Bronco Phoebe -- A Double-dyed Deceiver -- The Passing of Black Eagle -- A Retrieved Reformation -- Cherchez la Femme -- Friends in San Rosario -- The Fourth in Salvador -- The Emancipation of Billy -- The Enchanted Kiss -- A Departmental Case -- The Renaissance at Charleroi -- On Behalf of the Management -- Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking -- The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss -- Two Renegades -- The Lonesome Road. | | | 1999-02-01 |
| The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories | | en | | Silverhorns / Henry van Dyke -- Wild horse hunter / Zane Grey -- Hydrophobic skunk / Irvin S. Cobb -- The ole Virginia / Stewart Edward White -- The weight of obligation / Rex Beach -- That spot / Jack London -- When Lincoln licked a bully / Irving Bacheller -- The end of the trail / Clarence E. Mulford -- Dey ain't no ghosts / Ellis Parker Butler -- The night operator / Frank L. Packard -- Christmas Eve in a lumber camp / Ralph Connor -- The story that the keg told me / Adirondack (W.H.H.) Murray | Mathiews, Franklin K. [Editor] | Storytelling; Short stories | 2008-08-29 |
| The Toys of Peace, and other papers | Saki, 1870-1916 | en | | The toys of peace -- Louise -- Tea -- The disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh -- The wolves of Cernogratz -- Louis -- The guests -- The penance -- The phantom luncheon -- A bread and butter miss -- Bertie's Christmas Eve -- Forewarned -- The interlopers -- Quail seed -- Canossa -- The threat -- Excepting Mrs. Pentherby -- Mark -- The hedgehog -- The Mappined life -- Fate -- The bull -- Morlvera -- Shock tactics -- The seven cream jugs -- The occasional garden -- The sheep -- The oversight -- Hyacinth -- The image of the lost soul -- The purple of the Balkan kings -- The cupboard of the yesterdays -- For the duration of the war. | | | 1998-10-01 |
| 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 |
| Twilight Stories | | en | | Christmas day -- The only woman in the town -- The conquest of Fairyland -- Kentucky Belle -- Prophecies -- Why he was whipped -- "Apples Finkey": the water-boy -- The soldier's reprieve -- Little brown thrushes -- The story of the empty sleeve -- Facing the world -- Robert of Lincoln -- "Dixie" and "Yankee Doodle" -- The barefoot boy -- Babouscka -- Daisies -- Driving home the cows -- The baby's kiss -- The lost diamond snuff box -- The American flag -- Aunt Polly Shedd's brigade -- Corinne's musicale -- Barbara Frietchie -- Sheridan's ride -- The children's hour -- Caryl's plum -- Our two opinions. | | Children's literature; Short stories; Poetry | 1996-07-01 |
| Rolling Stones | Henry, O., 1862-1910 | en | | The dream -- A ruler of men -- The atavism of John Tom Little Bear -- Helping the other fellow -- The marionettes -- The marquis and Miss Sally -- A fog in Santone -- The friendly call -- a dinner at ----* --- Sound and fury -- Tictocq -- Tracked to doom -- A snapshot at the President -- An unfinished Christmas story -- The unprofitable servant -- Aristocracy versus has -- The prisoner of Zembla -- A strange story -- Fickle fortune, or, How Gladys hustled -- An apology -- Lord Oakhurst's course -- Bexar script no. 2692 -- Queries and answers -- The pewee -- Nothing to say -- The murderer -- Some postscripts -- A contribution -- The old farm -- Vanity -- The lullaby boy -- Chanson de Bohême -- Hard to forget -- Drop a tear in this slot -- Tamales -- Some letters. | | | 2003-03-01 |
| Yorkshire Ditties, Second Series
To which is added The Cream of Wit and Humour
from his Popular Writings | Hartley, John, 1839-1915 | en | | Th' Better Part -- Done Agean -- Latter Wit -- My Gronfayther's Days -- Heart Brocken -- To a Daisy -- A Bad Sooart -- All we Had -- Give it 'em Hot -- Th' Honest Hard Worker -- Niver Heed -- Sing On -- What aw Want -- What it is to be Mother -- What is It -- Come thi Ways! -- Advice to Jenny -- Ther's mich Expected -- A Strange Stooary -- Take Heart -- Did yo Iver -- An Old Man's Christmas Morning -- Billy Bumble's Bargain -- Moral -- Rejected -- Duffin Johnie -- Lost Love -- Th' Traitle Sop -- To Let -- Fault Finders -- Disapointment -- Work Away -- New Machinery &c -- September Month -- A Hawporth -- Buttermilk &c -- It's a comfort -- Progress -- Try Again -- Jealousy -- Winter -- Persevere -- Booith-Taan Election -- Election -- None think Alike -- Seaside | | | 2006-02-19 |
| The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 | Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893 | en | | The Old Maid -- The Awakening -- In the Spring -- The Jennet -- Rust -- The Substitute -- The Relic -- The Man with the Blue Eyes -- Allouma -- A Family Affair -- The Odalisque of Senichou -- A Good Match -- A Fashionable Woman -- The Carnival of Love -- A Deer Park in the Provinces -- The White Lady -- Caught -- Christmas Eve -- Words of Love -- A Divorce Case -- Who Knows? -- Simon's Papa -- Paul's Mistress -- The Rabbit -- The Twenty-Five Francs of the Mother Superior -- The Venus of Braniza -- La Morillonne -- Waiter, A "Bock" -- Regret -- The Port -- The Hermit -- The Orderly -- Duchoux -- Old Amable -- Magnetism. | | French fiction -- Translations into English; Short stories, French -- Translations into English | 2005-12-22 |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942 | en | | A golden wedding -- A redeeming sacrifice -- A soul that was not at home -- Abel and his great adventure -- Akin to love -- Aunt Philippa and the men -- Bessie's doll -- Charlotte's ladies -- Christmas at Red Butte -- How we went to the wedding -- Jessamine -- Miss Sally's letter -- My lady Jane -- Robert Turner's revenge -- The Fillmore elderberries -- The finished story -- The garden of spices -- The girl and the photograph -- The gossip of Valley View -- The letters -- The life-book of Uncle Jesse -- The little black doll -- The man on the train -- The romance of Jedediah -- The tryst of the white lady -- Uncle Richard's New Year dinner -- White magic. | | | 2008-03-19 |
| Heretics | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 | en | | Introductory remarks on the importance of orthodoxy -- On the negative spirit -- On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and making the world small -- Mr. Bernard Shaw -- Mr. H.G. Wells and the giants -- Christmas and the aesthetes -- Omar and the sacred vine -- The mildness of the yellow press -- The moods of Mr. George Moore -- On sandals and simplicity -- Science and the savages -- Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson -- Celts and celtophiles -- On certain modern writers and the institution of the family -- On smart novelists and the smart set -- On Mr. McCabe and a divine frivolity -- On the wit of Whistler -- The fallacy of the young nation -- Slum novelists and the slums -- Concluding remarks on the importance of orthodoxy. | | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936; Apologetics | 1996-03-01 |
| 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 |
| Autumn Leaves
Original Pieces in Prose and Verse | | en | Images of the original pages are available through the Wright American Fiction Project of the Library Electronic Text Service of Indiana University. http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/ | Christmas Revived -- In the Churchyard at Cambridge. A Legend of Lady Lee -- The Little South-wind -- Lines Written at the Close of Dr. Holme's Lectures on English Poetry -- Aunt Molly. A Reminiscence of Old Cambridge -- The Sounds of Morning in Cambridge -- The Sounds of Evening in Cambridge -- To the Near-sighted -- Flower's from a Student's Walks -- Miseries. No. 1 -- Miseries. No. 2 A Dark Night -- Miseries. No. 3 Twine -- Miseries. No. 4 Fresh Air -- Farewell -- Innocent Surprises -- The Old Sailor -- Laughter -- To Stephen -- The Old Church -- "Something than Beauty Dearer" -- A Tale Found in the Repositories of the Abbots of the Middle Ages -- The Sea -- Fashion -- A Growl -- To Jenny Lind -- My Herbarium -- The Ostrich -- Cows -- The Home-beacon -- The Fourth of July -- From the Papers of Reginald Ratcliffe, Esq. | Abbot, Anne Wales, 1808-1908 [Editor] | | 2005-11-30 |
| Holiday Stories for Young People | Various | en | | The Clover Leaf Club of Bloomingdale. By Sangster -- The Lighthouse Lamp. By Sangster. -- The Family Mail-bag. By Porter -- A Day's Fishing. By Porter -- Why Charlie Didn't Go. By Porter -- Uncle Giles' Paint Brush. By Porter -- The Pied Piper of Hamelin. By Browning -- A Girl Graduate. By Barnard -- A Christmas Frolic. By Sangster -- Archie's Vacation. By Porter -- A Birthday Story. By Sangster -- A Coquette. By Pierce -- Horatius. By Macaulay -- A Bit of Brightness. By Porter -- How Sammy Earned the Prize. By Sangster -- The Glorious Fourth. -- The Middle Daughter. By Sangster -- The Golden Bird. By Grimm -- Harry Pemberton's Text. By Armstrong -- Our Cats. -- Outovplace. -- The Boy Who Dared to Be a Daniel. By Smith -- Little Redcap. By Grimm -- New Zealand Children. -- The Breeze from the Peak. -- The Bremen Town Musicians. By Grimm -- A Very Queer Steed, and Some Strange Adventures. by Armstrong -- Freedom's Silent Host. By Sangster -- Presence of Mind. By Sangster -- The Boy Who Went from the Sheepfold to the Throne. By Sangster. | Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth, 1838-1912 [Editor] | | 2005-09-04 |