title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Our Casualty, and Other Stories
1918 | Birmingham, George A., 1865-1950 | en | | Our casualty -- Getting even -- A matter of discipline -- The second bass -- Her right -- Journey's end -- His girl -- Sir Galahad -- A gun-running episode -- Ireland forever -- Sir Timothy's dinner-party -- United Ireland -- Old Biddy and the rebels -- Civilized war -- The mermaid -- An upright judge. | | Ireland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Short stories, Irish | 2008-01-21 |
Reginald in Russia and other sketches | Saki, 1870-1916 | en | | Reginald in Russia -- The reticence of Lady Anne -- The lost Sanjak -- The sex that doesn't shop -- The blood-feud of Toad-Water -- A young Turkish catastrophe -- Judkin of the parcels -- Gabriel-Ernest -- The saint and the goblin -- The soul of Laploshka -- The bag -- The strategist -- Cross currents -- The baker's dozen -- The mouse. | | Fiction; Short stories | 1999-08-01 |
Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship | | en | | Angela, an Inverted Love Story, by William Schwenk Gilbert -- The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne, by Anthony Trollope -- Anthony Garstin's Courtship, by Hubert Crackanthorpe -- A Little Grey Glove, by George Egerton Bright -- The Woman Beater, by Israel Zangwill. | | Short stories; Courtship -- Fiction | 2005-03-16 |
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete | Parker, Gilbert, 1862-1932 | en | | While the lamp holds out to burn -- The price of the grindstone and the drum -- The desertion of Mohammed Selim -- On the reef of Norman's woe -- Fielding had an orderly -- The eye of the needle -- A treaty of peace -- At the mercy of Tiberius -- All the world's mad -- The man at the wheel -- A tyrant and a lady -- A young lion of Dedan -- He would not be denied -- The flower of the flock -- The light of other days. | | Egypt -- Fiction; Short stories | 2004-11-18 |
Alice's Adventures Under Ground
Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" | Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 | en | With 37 illustrations by the author. | I. Down the Rabbit-Hole. The Pool of Tears
II. A Long Tale. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
III. Advice From a Caterpillar
IV. The Queen's Croquet-Ground. The Mock Turtle's Story. The Lobster Quadrille. Who Stole the Tarts? | | Fantasy; Fantasy fiction, English | 2006-08-07 |
Martin Hewitt, Investigator | Morrison, Arthur, 1863-1945 | en | | The Lenton Croft robberies -- The loss of Sammy Crockett -- The case of Mr. Foggatt -- The case of the Dixon torpedo -- The Quinton jewel affair -- The Stanway cameo mystery -- The affair of the tortoise. | | Detective and mystery stories, English; Private investigators -- England -- Fiction | 2004-02-01 |
A Christmas Accident and Other Stories | Trumbull, Annie Eliot, 1857-1949 | en | | A Christmas accident -- After--the Deluge -- Memoir of Mary Twining -- A postlude -- The "Daily Morning Chronicle" -- Hearts unfortified -- Her neighbor's landmark. | | United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Christmas stories | 2009-03-11 |
Harbor Tales Down North
With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. | Duncan, Norman, 1871-1916 | en | | Madman's luck -- The siren of Scalawag Run -- The art of Terry Lute -- The doctor of Afternoon Arm -- A Croesus of Gingerbread Cove -- A madonna of Tinkle Tickle -- The little nipper o' Hide-an'-Seek Harbor -- Small Sam Small -- An idyl of Rickity Tickle. | | Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction; Short stories | 2008-02-04 |
Ship's Company, the Entire Collection | Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943 | en | | Fine feathers -- Friends in need -- Good intentions -- Fairy gold -- Watch-dogs -- The bequest -- The guardian angel -- Dual control -- Skilled assistance -- For better or worse -- The old man of the sea -- "Manners makyth man." | Owen, Will, 1869-1957 [Illustrator] | England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Humorous stories, English | 2004-01-01 |
Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home | Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878 | en | | Beauty and the beast -- Strange friend -- Jacob Flint's journey -- Can a life hide itself? -- Twin-love -- Experience of A.C. -- Friend Eli's daughter -- Miss Bartram's trouble -- Mrs. Strongitharm's report. | | Short stories; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2008-06-29 |
Men, Women, and Ghosts | Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911 | en | | No news -- The tenth of January -- Night-watches -- The day of my death -- "Little Tommy Tucker" -- One of the elect -- What was the matter? -- In the Gray Goth -- Calico -- Kentucky's ghost. | | United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Ghost stories, American | 2004-01-01 |
The Burial of the Guns | Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 | en | | My Cousin Fanny -- The Burial of the Guns -- The Gray Jacket of "No. 4" -- Miss Dangerlie's Roses -- How the Captain Made Christmas -- Little Darby. | | Short stories; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2008-07-02 |
Crooked Trails | Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909 | en | | How the law got into the chaparral -- The blue quail of the cactus -- A sergeant of the Orphan Troop -- The spirit of Mahongui -- The essentials at Fort Adobe -- Massai's crooked trail -- Joshua Goodenough's old letter -- Cracker cowboys of Florida -- The strange days that came to Jimmie Friday -- The Soledad girls. | | Western stories; West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2005-04-01 |
Trent's Trust, and Other Stories | Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 | en | | Trent's Trust -- Mr. Macglowrie's Widow -- A Ward of Colonel Starbottle -- Prosper's "Old Mother" -- The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin -- A Pupil of Chestnut Ridge -- Dick Boyle's Business Card | | Short stories; American fiction -- 19th century | 2006-05-17 |
Under the Redwoods | Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 | en | | Jimmy's big brother from California -- The youngest Miss Piper -- A widow of the Santa Ana Valley -- The mermaid of Lighthouse Point -- Under the eaves -- How Reuben Allen "saw life" in San Francisco -- Three vagabonds of Trinidad -- A vision of the fountain -- A romance of the line -- Bohemian days in San Francisco | | American fiction -- 19th century; Short stories | 2006-05-18 |
The Mucker | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | en | Originally published serially as "The Mucker" and "The Return of the Mucker" | | | Fiction; Adventure stories | 1995-09-01 |
The Redheaded Outfield | Grey, Zane, 1872-1939 | en | | The redheaded outfield -- The rube -- The rube's pennant -- The rube's honeymoon -- The rube's Waterloo -- Breaking into fast company -- The knocker -- The winning ball -- False colors -- The manager of Madden's Hill -- Old Well-well. | | Fiction; Short stories; Baseball stories, American | 1996-01-01 |
Buttered Side Down: Stories | Ferber, Edna, 1885-1968 | en | | The Frog and the Puddle -- The MAN Who Came Back -- What She Wore -- A Bush League Hero -- The Kitchen Side of the Door -- One of the Old Girls -- Maymeys from Cuba -- The Leading Lady -- That Home-Town Feeling -- The Homely Heroine -- Sun Dried -- Where the Car Turns at 18th. | | Short stories; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction | 1995-11-01 |
Earth's Enigmas
A Volume of Stories | Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir, 1860-1943 | en | | Do seek their meat from God -- The perdu -- "The young ravens that call upon him" -- Within sound of the saws -- The butt of the camp -- In the accident ward -- The romance of an ox-team -- A tragedy of the tides -- At the rough-and-tumble landing -- An experience of Jabez Batterpole -- The stone dog -- The barn on the marsh -- Captain Joe and Jamie -- Strayed -- The eye of Gluskâp. | | Manners and customs -- Fiction; Short stories | 2006-12-30 |
Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) | Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943 | en | | Deserted -- Homeward bound -- Self-help -- Sentence deferred -- "Matrimonial openings" -- Odd man out -- "The toll-house" -- Peter's pence -- The head of the family -- Prize money -- Double dealing -- Keeping up appearances. | Owen, Will, 1869-1957 [Illustrator] | Humorous stories, English; England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2004-01-01 |
If, Yes and Perhaps
Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact | Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 | en | | The children of the public -- A piece of possible history -- The South American editor -- The old and the new, face to face -- The dot and line alphabet -- The last voyage of the Resolute -- My double, and how he undid me -- The man without a country -- The last of the Florida -- The skeleton in the closet -- Christmas waits in Boston. | | United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Short stories, American | 2009-03-21 |
The Judas Valley | | en | This work was published under the name Gerald Vance, a pseudonym used by Randall Garrett, Robert Silverberg, Henry Slesar and Roger P. Graham. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database attributes "The Judas Valley" to Randall Garrett and Robert | | | | 2008-06-07 |
Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges | Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 | en | | | Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933 [Editor] | Great Britain -- History -- Anne, 1702-1714 -- Fiction; Humorists, English; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Hanover, House of; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century | 2009-07-10 |
Cabbages and Kings | Henry, O., 1862-1910 | en | | The Proem — "Fox-in-the-Morning" — The Lotus and the Bottle — Smith — Caught — Cupid's Cupid's Exile Number Two — The Phonograph and the Graft — Money Maze — The Admiral — The Flag — Paramount — The Shamrock and the Palm — The Remnants of the Code — Shoes — Ships — Masters of Arts — Dicky — Rouge et Noir — Two Recalls — The Vitagraphoscope. | | New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Short stories | 2001-08-01 |
Heart of the West | 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. | | Fiction; Short stories | 2004-07-27 |