title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Deep Waters, the Entire Collection | Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943 | en | | Shareholders -- Paying off -- Made to measure -- Sam's ghost -- Bedridden -- The convert -- Husbandry -- Family cares -- The winter offensive -- The substitute -- Striking hard -- Dirty work. | | England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Humorous stories, English; Sailors -- Fiction | 2004-03-01 |
Captains All and Others | Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943 | en | | Captains all -- The boatswain's mate -- The nest egg -- The constable's move -- Bob's redemption -- Over the side -- Four pigeons -- The temptation of Samuel Burge -- The madness of Mr. Lister -- The white cat. | | Humorous stories, English; River life -- Fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2004-02-01 |
Obiter Dicta
Second Series | Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 | en | | Milton -- Pope -- Dr. Johnson -- Edmund Burke -- The muse of history -- Charles Lamb -- Emerson -- The office of literature -- Worn-out types -- Cambridge and the poets -- Book-buying. | | English literature -- History and criticism; Literature; Historiography | 2007-06-10 |
An Exposition of the Last Psalme | Boys, Iohn, 1571-1625 | en | Delivered In A Sermon Preached At Pavles
Crosse the fifth of Nouember 1613.
Which I haue ioyned to the Festiuals as a short Apologie for our Holy daies in the Church of England. | | | Church of England -- Sermons; Sermons, English; Bible | 2005-12-10 |
The Turkish Jester
or, The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi | Nasreddin, Hoca | en | This is a very rare work by George Borrow, English eccentric and polyglot. It's a translation of a collection of short stories about Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi - many of which show the Cogia's wisdom. | | Borrow, George Henry, 1803-1881 [Translator] | | 2005-07-08 |
Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws
Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series | Sidgwick, Frank | en | | | | Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Robin Hood (Legendary character) -- Poetry; Outlaws -- Poetry | 2009-05-10 |
The Fall of Troy | Quintus, Smyrnaeus, 4th century | en | | | Way, Arthur Sanders, 1847-1930 [Translator] | Concordances; Epic poetry, Greek -- Translations into English; Trojan War -- Poetry; Troy (Extinct city) -- Poetry | 1996-09-01 |
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch
being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls | Plutarch, 46-120? | en | Uniform title: Lives. English. Selections | | White, John S. (John Stuart), 1847-1922 [Editor] | Greece -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Rome -- Biography -- Juvenile literature | 2001-01-01 |
The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes | Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 | en | | The Lady Cornelia -- Rinconete and Cortadillo -- The licentiate vidriera -- The deceitful marriage -- Dialogue between Scipio and Berganza -- The little gipsy girl -- The generous lover -- The Spanish-English lady -- The force of blood -- The jealous estramaduran -- The illustrious scullery-maid -- The two damsels. | Kelly, Walter Keating [Translator] | | 2004-12-22 |
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. | Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 | en | | | | Poets, English -- Biography -- Early works to 1800; Poets, Irish -- Biography -- Early works to 1800 | 2004-04-01 |
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)
Volume IV | Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 | en | | | | Poets, English -- Biography -- Early works to 1800; Poets, Irish -- Biography -- Early works to 1800 | 2004-04-01 |
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)
Volume III | Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 | en | | | | Poets, English -- Biography -- Early works to 1800; Poets, Irish -- Biography -- Early works to 1800 | 2004-01-01 |
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)
Volume I. | Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 | en | | | | Poets, English -- Biography -- Early works to 1800; Poets, Irish -- Biography -- Early works to 1800 | 2004-01-01 |
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)
Volume II | Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 | en | | | | Poets, English -- Biography -- Early works to 1800; Poets, Irish -- Biography -- Early works to 1800 | 2005-08-07 |
Short Cruises | Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943 | en | | The changeling -- Mixed relations -- His lordship -- Alf's dream -- A distant relative -- The test -- In the family -- A love-knot -- The dreamer -- Angels' visits. | Owen, Will, 1869-1957 [Illustrator] | River life -- Fiction; Humorous stories, English; England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2007-06-25 |
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) | Toledano, C. A. | | | | | Spanish language -- Grammar; Commercial correspondence, Spanish; Spanish language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English | 2005-02-21 |
De Carmine Pastorali (1684) | Rapin, René, 1621-1687 | en | First published in Latin, with Rapin's eclogues, under the title: Eclogae, cum dissertatione de carmine pastorali. Parisiis, apud S. Cramoisy, 1659.
The English translation by Thomas Creech, prefixed to his translation of the Idylliums of Theocritus, app | | | | 2004-12-28 |
The Magic World | Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924 | en | | The cat-hood of Maurice -- The mixed mine -- Accidental magic -- The princess and the hedge-pig -- Septimus Septimusson -- The white cat -- Belinda and Bellamant -- Justnowland -- The related muff -- The aunt and Amabel -- Kenneth and the carp -- The magician's heart. | | Short stories; Children's stories, English; Magic -- Juvenile fiction | 2009-01-27 |
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher | Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 | en | | | | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637; Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616; Fletcher, John, 1579-1625; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism | 2008-05-24 |
The Praise of a Godly Woman | Gamon, Hannibal | en | | | | Robartes of Truro, Frances Robartes, Baroness, d. 1626 -- Sermons; Church of England -- Sermons; Funeral sermons -- England; Sermons, English -- 17th century | 2008-11-16 |
The Story-teller | Lindsay, Maud, 1874-1941 | en | | The two brothers -- The jar of rosemary -- The promise -- The plate of pancakes -- Little Maid Hildegarde -- The apple dumpling -- The king's servant -- The great white bear -- The song that traveled -- The quest for the nightingale -- The magic flower -- The lions in the way. | Young, Florence Liley, 1872-1974 [Illustrator] | Fairy tales; Children's stories, English | 2007-12-04 |
Just So Stories | Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 | en | | How the Whale got his Throat -- How the Camel got his Hump -- How the Rhinoceros got its Skin -- How the Leopard got his Spots -- The Elephant's Child -- The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo -- The Beginning of the Armadillos -- How the First Letter was Written -- How the Alphabet was Made -- The Crab that Played with the Sea -- The Cat that walked by Himself -- The Butterfly that Stamped. | | Animals -- Fiction; Short stories; Children's stories, English | 2001-08-01 |
Some Imagist Poets
An Anthology | | en | | | | Imagist poetry; American poetry -- 20th century; English poetry -- 20th century | 2009-10-17 |
Danger! and Other Stories | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 | en | | Danger -- One crowded hour -- A point of view -- The fall of Lord Barrymore -- The horror of the heights -- Borrowed scenes -- The surgeon of Gaster Fell -- How it happened -- The prisoner's defence -- Three of them: A chat about children, snakes, and zebus; About cricket; Speculations; The leatherskin tribe. | | Science fiction; Short stories, English | 2007-08-19 |
Three Dramas | Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne, 1832-1910 | en | | The editor -- The bankrupt -- The king. | Sharp, R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson), 1864-1945 [Translator] | Drama; Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne, 1832-1910 -- Translations into English | 2005-04-01 |