title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Original Short Stories — Volume 13 | Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893 | en | | Old Judas -- The little cask -- Boitelle -- A widow -- The Englishmen of Etretat -- Magnetism -- A father's confession -- A mother of monsters -- An uncomfortable bed -- A portrait -- The drunkard -- The wardrobe -- The mountain pool -- A cremation -- Misti -- Madame Hermet -- The magic couch. | | | 2004-10-04 |
The Purcell Papers — Volume 1 | Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873 | en | | Memoir of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- The Ghost and the Bone-Setter -- The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh -- The Last Heir of Castle Connor -- The Drunkard's Dream | | Fantasy fiction, English; Ireland -- Fiction | 2008-05-24 |
Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories
1898 | Becke, Louis, 1855-1913 | en | | Rodman the boatsteerer -- A point of theology on Maduro -- A man of impulse -- The trader -- Mrs. Clinton -- The cutting off of the "Queen Charlotte" -- The Peruvian slavers -- A question of precedence -- A touch of the tar-brush -- The trader's wife -- Nina -- The East Indian cousin -- Proctor the drunkard -- A Ponapean convenance -- In the king's service -- Oxley, the privateersman -- The escapee -- Ema, the half-blood -- Leassé -- The trouble with Jinaban. | | Pacific Area -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Short stories; Oceania -- Fiction | 2008-03-15 |
Faro Nell and Her Friends
Wolfville Stories | Lewis, Alfred Henry, 1857-1914 | en | | Dead-Shot Baker -- Old Man Enright's uncle -- Cynthiana, pet-named original sin -- Old Monte, official drunkard -- How the mocking bird was won -- That Wolfville-Red Dog Fourth -- Propriety Pratt, hypnotist -- That Turner person -- Red Mike -- How Tutt shot Texas Thompson -- The funeral of Old Holt -- Spelling Book Ben. | | Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction; Humorous stories, American; Ranch life -- Fiction; Cowboys -- Fiction; Western stories; Arizona -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2009-07-22 |
Russian Fairy Tales
A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore | | en | | The Fiend -- The Dead Mother -- The Dead Witch -- The Treasure -- The Cross-Surety -- The Awful Drunkard -- The Bad Wife -- The Golovikha -- The Three Copecks -- The Miser -- The Fool and the Birch-Tree -- The Mizgir -- The Smith and the Demon -- Ivan Popyalof -- The Norka -- Marya Morevna -- Koshchei the Deathless -- The Water Snake -- The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise -- The Baba Yaga -- Vasilissa the Fair -- The Witch -- The Witch and the Sun's Sister -- One-Eyed Likho -- Woe -- Friday -- Wednesday -- The Léshy -- Vazuza and Volga -- Sozh and Dnieper -- The Metamorphosis of the Dnieper, the Volga, and the Dvina -- Frost -- The Blind Man and the Cripple -- Princess Helena the Fair -- Emilian the Fool -- The Witch Girl -- The Headless Princess -- The Soldier's Midnight Watch -- The Warlock -- The Fox-Physician -- The Fiddler in Hell -- The Ride on the Gravestone -- The Two Friends -- The Shroud -- The Coffin-Lid -- The Two Corpses -- The Dog and the Corpse -- The Soldier and the Vampire -- Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas -- The Priest with the Greedy Eyes -- The Hasty Word. | Ralston, William Ralston Shedden, 1828-1889 [Translator] | | 2007-08-22 |