title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Algonquin Indian Tales | Young, Egerton Ryerson, 1840-1909 | en | | | | Indians of North America -- Folklore; Tales -- North America; Algonquian Indians -- Fiction | 2004-01-01 |
Little Wizard Stories of Oz | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 | en | | The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger -- Little Dorothy and Toto -- Tiktok and the Nome King -- Ozma and the Little Wizard -- Jack Pumpkinhead and the Sawhorse -- The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. | Neill, John R. (John Rea), 1877-1943 [Illustrator] | Children's stories, American; Fantasy; Short stories; Oz (Imaginary place) -- Fiction | 2008-05-19 |
The heart of happy hollow
A collection of stories | Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 | en | | The Scapegoat -- One Christmas at Shiloh -- The Mission of Mr. Scatters -- A Matter of Doctrine -- Old Abe's Conversion -- The Race Question -- A Defender Of The Faith -- Cahoots -- The Promoter -- The Wisdom of Silence -- The Triumph of Ol' Mis' Pease -- The Lynching of Jube Benson -- Schwalliger's Philanthropy -- The Interference of Patsy Ann -- The Home-Coming of 'Rastus Smith -- The Boy and the Bayonet. | | African Americans -- Fiction; Short stories | 2008-02-29 |
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 | en | | The story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi -- Oshidori -- The story of O-Tei -- Ubazakura -- Diplomacy -- Of a mirror and a bell -- Jikininki -- Mujina -- Rokuro-Kubi -- A dead secret -- Yuki-Onna -- The story of Aoyagi -- Jiu-Roku-Zakura -- The dream of Akinosuke -- Riki-Baka -- Hi-Mawari -- Horai -- Butterflies -- Mosquitoes -- Ants. | | Japan -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Legends -- Japan | 1998-02-01 |
The Garden Party and Other Stories | Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923 | en | | At the bay -- The garden party -- The daughters of the late colonel -- Mr and Mrs Dove -- The young girl -- Life of Ma Parker -- Marriage a la mode -- The voyage -- Miss Brill -- Her first ball -- The singing lesson -- The stranger -- Bank holiday -- An ideal family -- The lady's maid. | | Short stories, New Zealand; New Zealand -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 1998-08-01 |
At a Winter's Fire | Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph, 1854-1918 | en | | The moon stricken -- Jack and Jill -- The vanishing house -- Dark Dignum -- William Tyrwhitt’s "copy" -- A lazy romance -- Black Venn -- An eddy on the floor -- Dinah's mammoth -- The black reaper -- A voice from the pit. | | Fantasy fiction, English; Short stories | 2004-11-14 |
Young Hilda at the Wars | Gleason, Arthur, 1878-1923 | en | | Young Hilda at the wars -- The ribbons that stuck in his coat -- Rollo, the Apollo -- The piano of Peroyse -- War -- The chevalier -- The American -- The war baby. | | War stories; World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction; World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Belgium | 2008-06-19 |
Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children | Cooke, Flora J. (Flora Juliette), 1864-1953 | en | | | | Children's stories; Natural history -- Juvenile fiction; Nature -- Mythology -- Juvenile literature; Mythology, Classical -- Juvenile literature | 2009-12-29 |
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 |
Slovenly Betsy | Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1809-1894 | en | | Slovenly Betsy -- Phoebe Ann, the Proud Girl -- The Dreadful Story of Pauline and the Matches -- What Happened to Lazy Charlotte -- The Cry-Baby -- The Story of Romping Polly -- The Story of a Dirty Child -- Envious Minnie -- The Little Glutton -- Sophie Spoilall. | | Stories in rhyme; Behavior -- Fiction; Children's stories, German -- Translations into English | 2006-11-24 |
The Schoolmistress, and other stories | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 | en | | The schoolmistress -- A nervous breakdown -- Misery -- Champagne -- After the theatre -- A lady's story -- In exile -- The cattle dealers -- Sorrow -- On official duty -- The first-class passenge -- A tragic actor -- A transgression -- Small fry -- The requiem -- In the coach-house -- Panic fears -- The bet -- The head gardener's story -- The beauties -- The shoemaker and the devil | | Short stories; Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2006-02-22 |
A List To Starboard
1909 | Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915 | en | | | Smith, Francis Hopkinson, 1838-1915 [Illustrator] | Ships -- Fiction; Short stories | 2007-12-03 |
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | en | | | | London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century | 1997-04-01 |
The Certain Hour | Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958 | en | Dizain des Poetes | "Ballad of the double-soul" -- Auctorial induction -- Belhs cavaliers -- Balthazar's daughter -- Judith's creed -- Concerning Corinna -- Olivia's pottage -- A brown woman -- Pro honoria -- The irresistible Ogle -- A princess of Grub Street -- The lady of all our dreams -- "Ballad of plagiary" | | Fiction; Short stories | 1995-07-01 |
Alice in Wonderland
Retold in Words of One Syllable | Gorham, J.C. | en | | CHAPTER I.
Down The Rabbit Hole
CHAPTER II.
The Pool of Tears
CHAPTER III.
A Race
CHAPTER IV.
The Rabbit Sends in a Bill
CHAPTER V.
A Caterpillar Tells Alice what to Do
CHAPTER VI.
Pig and Pepper
CHAPTER VII.
A Mad Tea Party
CHAPTER VIII.
The Queen's Croquet Ground
CHAPTER IX.
The Mock Turtle
CHAPTER X.
The Lobster Dance
CHAPTER XI.
Who Stole the Tarts?
CHAPTER XII.
Alice on the Stand | | Fantasy; Fantasy fiction, English | 2006-10-16 |
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 |
Tales of Two Countries | Kielland, Alexander Lange, 1849-1906 | en | | Pharaoh -- The parsonage -- The peat moor -- "Hope's clad in April green" -- At the fair -- Two friends -- A good conscience -- Romance and reality -- Withered leaves -- The battle of Waterloo. | | Kielland, Alexander Lange, 1849-1906 -- Translations into English; Norway -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2005-08-01 |
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 |
Reginald | Saki, 1870-1916 | en | | Reginald -- Reginald on Christmas Presents -- Reginald on the Academy -- Reginald at the Theatre -- Reginald's Peace Poem -- Reginald's Choir Treat -- Reginald on Worries -- Reginald on House-Parties -- Reginald at the Carlton -- Reginald on Besetting Sins -- Reginald's Drama -- Reginald on Tariffs -- Reginald's Christmas Revel -- Reginald's Rubaiyat -- The Innocence of Reginald. | | Short stories, English; England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Humorous stories, English | 2001-09-01 |
Last Words
A Final Collection of Stories | Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885 | en | | Mary's meadow -- Letters from a little garden -- Snap-dragons -- Dandelion clocks -- The blind man and the talking dog -- So-so -- The Trinity flower -- The kyrkegrim turned preacher -- Ladders to heaven -- Sunflowers and a rushlight -- Tiny's tricks and Toby's tricks -- The owl in the ivy bush. | Murphy, Hermann Dudley, 1867-1945 [Illustrator] | Children's stories; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction | 2008-06-06 |
Adventures Among Books | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 | en | | Adventures among books -- Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson. -- Rab’s friend -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Mr. Morris’s poems -- Mrs. Radcliffe’s novels -- A Scottish romanticist of 1830 [T.T. Stoddart] -- The Confessions of Saint Augustine -- Smollett -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The paradise of poets -- Paris and Helen -- Enchanted cigarettes -- Stories and story-telling -- The supernatural in fiction -- An old Scottish psychical researcher [G. Sinclair] -- The boy. | | | 1999-12-01 |
The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 | en | | 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 | 2006-03-08 |
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies | Buchan, John, 1875-1940 | en | | From the Pentlands looking north and south -- The company of the Marjolaine, Avignon, 1759 -- A lucid interval -- The shorter catechism -- The Lemnian, Atta's song -- Space, Stocks and stones -- Streams of water in the south --The gipsy's song to the Lady Cassilis -- The grove of Ashtaroth, Wood magic -- The riding of Ninemileburn -- Plain folk -- The kings of Orion. Babylon -- The rime of true Thomas. | | Poetry; Short stories; Fiction | 1996-11-01 |
The Golf Course Mystery | Steele, Chester K. | en | | | | Detective and mystery stories; Golf stories; Golf courses -- Fiction | 1998-10-01 |
Fifty-Two Stories For Girls | | en | | Gloria Dene's schoolfellows, by Ryeman -- My year at school, by Watson -- The silver star, by Holderness -- Uncle Tone, by Godkin -- A night on the road, by Watson -- The missing letter, by Chappell -- "The colonel", by Dicken -- Nettie, by Sayers -- The magic cabinet, by Hooper -- Only Tim, by Doudney -- Smith's sister, by Overton -- The colonel's boy, by Hervey -- 'Twixt life and death, by Joughin -- Rose's birthday present, by Delbrassine -- Dolly Hardcastle's rosebuds, by Pearce -- A tale of Simla, by Bourchier -- The Trevern treasure, by Hardy -- A memorable day, by Doudney -- Dora, by Miles -- Little peace, by Ryeman -- The story of Wassili and Daria, by Guillemard -- Marjorie May, by Everett-Green -- Fourth cousins, by Stables -- The pedlar's pack, by Jackson -- The unbidden guest, by Forester -- The wreck of the May Queen, by Jackson -- Adrift on the Pacific, by Jackson -- A strange visitor, by Heighington -- The third person singular, by Hardy -- "How Jack minded the baby", by Pinho -- My grandmother's adventure, by Miles -- A terrible Christmas Eve, by Jackson -- A night of horror, by Miles -- Aunt Grieves' silver, by Jackson -- Billjim, by Le Sotgille -- The legends of Langaffer, by Caumont -- How Cicely danced before the king, by Archer -- A mother of Queens From "Old Romance" -- The story of Grizel Cochrand -- A wife's stratagem, by Hardy -- The king's tragedy, by Miles -- The stranger, by Bell -- Love will find a way, by Nithsdale. | Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry), 1848-1929 [Editor] | Children's stories; Girls -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction | 2008-07-02 |