| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| The Bad Family & Other Stories | Fenwick, E. (Eliza), 1766-1840 | en | | Introduction -- The Bad family -- The Good family -- Foolish fears -- The broken crutch -- The journal, or, Birthday gifts -- The basket of plumbs -- The choice of friends -- Cousin James and Cousin Thomas -- The disasters of impatience -- The deaf and dumb boy -- Limby Lumpy -- The oyster patties. | | | 2009-07-09 |
| Patty's Friends | Wells, Carolyn, 1862-1942 | en | | | | Friendship -- Juvenile fiction; Young women -- Juvenile fiction; Detective and mystery stories; London (England) -- Juvenile fiction; Treasure troves -- Juvenile fiction | 2008-06-20 |
| Marjorie Dean
High School Sophomore | Lester, Pauline | en | | | | High school students -- Juvenile fiction; Schools -- Juvenile fiction; Best friends -- Juvenile fiction | 2009-02-04 |
| Dorothy's House Party | Raymond, Evelyn, 1843-1910 | en | | | | Entertaining -- Juvenile fiction; Best friends -- Juvenile fiction; Circus -- Juvenile fiction; Orphans -- Juvenile fiction | 2009-05-15 |
| 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 |
| Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 | en | | Biographical -- My First Visit to New England -- First Impressions of Literary New York -- Roundabout to Boston -- Literary Boston As I Knew It -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The White Mr. Longfellow -- Studies of Lowell -- Cambridge Neighbors -- A Belated Guest -- My Mark Twain. | | American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Authors, American | 2004-10-22 |
| Golden Stories
A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers | Various | en | | The Night Express -- Over The Garden Wall -- Rural Insurance -- His Honor, The District Judge -- A Fog-horn Conclusion -- Mary Jane's Diversion -- Between Friends -- The Hammerpond Burglary -- A Fo'c's'le Tragedy -- The Adopted Son -- Providence And Mrs. Urmy -- The Million Dollar Freight Train -- The Bulldog Breed -- Ice In June -- The Ditty-box -- The Yellow Cat -- A Cock And Policeman -- Prisoners In The Tower -- Sankey's Double-header -- Aunt Mary Telegraphs -- The Vengeance Of The Wolf -- The Wooing Of Bettina -- The Jam God -- When Father Worked. | | | 2006-09-22 |
| Hortus Vitae
Essays on the Gardening of Life | Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935 | en | | Dedication -- The garden of life -- In praise of governesses -- On going to the play -- Reading books -- Hearing music -- Receiving letters -- New friends and old -- Other friendships -- A hotel sitting-room -- In praise of courtship -- Knowing one's mind -- Against talking -- In praise of silence -- The blame of portraits -- Sere and yellow -- A stage jewel -- My bicycle and I -- Puzzles of the past -- Making presents -- Going away -- Coming back -- Losing one's train -- The hanging gardens. | | | 2008-10-07 |
| Famous Stories Every Child Should Know | Various | en | | A Child's Dream of a Star, By Dickens -- The King of the Golden River or, The Black Brothers, By Ruskin -- The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle, By Hawthorne -- Undine, By Friedrich -- The Story of Ruth -- The Great Stone Face, By Hawthorne -- The Diverting History of John Gilpin, By Cowper -- The Man Without a Country, By Hale -- The Nürnberg Stove, By Ramee -- Rab and His Friends, By Brown -- Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, By Austin. | Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1845-1916 [Editor] | | 2005-07-08 |
| Five Little Friends | Adams, Sherred Willcox | en | | | | | 2008-05-17 |
| 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 |
| Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 | Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859 | en | | BOIARDO. Critical notice of his life and genius -- The adventures of Angelica -- The death of Agrican -- The Saracen friends, Part the Second -- Seeing and believing -- ARIOSTO. Critical notice of his life and genius -- The adventures of Angelica -- Astolfo's journey to the moon -- Ariodante and Ginerva -- Suspicion -- Isabella -- TASSO. Critical notice of his life and genius -- Olindo and Sophronia -- Tancred and Clorinda -- Rinaldo and Armida; with the adventure of the enchanted forest. | | | 2004-01-01 |
| 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 Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 | | en | | The Apparition of Mrs. Veal, by Daniel Defoe -- The Mysterious Bride, by James Hogg -- The Devil and Tom Walker, by Washington Irving -- Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe -- Rab and His Friends, by Dr. John Brown -- The Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn, by Charles Dickens -- A Story of Seven Devils, by Frank R. Stockton -- A Dog's Tale, by Mark Twain -- The Outcasts of Poker Flat, by Bret Harte -- The Three Strangers, by Thomas Hardy -- Julia Bride, by Henry James -- A Lodging for the Night, by Robert Louis Stevenson. | | | 2003-11-01 |
| 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 |
| The Bibliotaph
and Other People | Vincent, Leon H. (Leon Henry), 1859-1941 | en | | The bibliotaph, a portrait not wholly imaginary -- The bibliotaph, his friends, scrapbooks, and 'bins' -- Last words on the bibliotaph -- Thomas Hardy -- A reading in the letters of John Keats -- An Elizabethan novelist -- The autobiography of a fair-minded man -- Concerning a red waistcoat -- Stevenson, the vagabond and the philosopher -- Stevenson's St. Ives. | | Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928; Keats, John, 1795-1821; Lyly, John, 1554?-1606; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804; Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872; Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894; Book collectors | 2007-05-02 |
| The Call Of The South
1908 | Becke, Louis, 1855-1913 | en | | Paul the diver -- The old sea life -- The blind man of Admiralty Island -- Nisân Island: a tale of the old trading days -- Mutinies -- "Mâni" -- At night -- The cranks of the Julia brig -- "Dandy", the ship's Dingo -- Kala-Hoi, the netmaker -- The kanaka labour trade in the Pacific -- My friends, the Anthropophagi -- On the "joys" of recruiting "blackbirds" -- Making a fortune in the South Seas -- The story of Tokolmé -- "Lano-Tô" -- "Ombre Chevalier" -- A recluse of the bush -- Te-Bari, the outlaw -- "The dandiest boy that ever stood up in a boat" -- The pit of Maotâ -- Vanâki, the strong swimmer -- Two Pacific Islands birds -- A night run across Fâgaloa Bay -- A bit of good luck -- Modern pirates -- Pautôe -- The man who knew everything -- The pattering of the mullet. | | | 2008-03-22 |
| Heidi
(Gift Edition) | Spyri, Johanna, 1827-1901 | en | | PART I
HEIDI'S YEARS OF LEARNING AND TRAVEL
I Going up to the Alm-Uncle
II. With the Grandfather
III. On the Pasture
IV. In the Grandmother's Hut
V. Two Visitors
VI. A New Chapter with New Things
VII. Miss Rottenmeier Has an Uncomfortable Day
VIII. Great Disturbances in the Sesemann House
IX. The Master of the House Hears of Strange Doings
X. A Grandmama
XI. Heidi Gains in Some Respects and Loses in Others
XII. The Sesemann House is Haunted
XIII. Up the Alp on a Summer Evening
XIV. On Sunday When the Church Bells Ring
PART II
HEIDI MAKES USE OF HER EXPERIENCE
XV. Preparations for a Journey
XVI. A Guest on the Alp
XVII. Retaliation
XVIII. Winter in the Village
XIX. Winter Still Continues
XX. News from Distant Friends
XXI. On Further Events on the Alp
XXII. Something Unexpected Happens
XXIII. Parting to Meet Again | | Orphans -- Fiction; Grandfathers -- Fiction; Mountain life -- Switzerland -- Fiction; Switzerland -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2007-03-09 |
| Folk-Lore and Legends
Scotland | Anonymous | en | | Canobie Dick and Thomas of Ercildoun -- Coinnach Oer -- Elphin Irving -- The Ghosts of Craig-Aulnaic -- The Doomed Rider -- Whippety Stourie -- The Weird of the Three Arrows -- The Laird of Balmachie's Wife -- Michael Scott -- The Minister and the Fairy -- The Fisherman and the Merman -- The Laird O' Co' -- Ewen of the Little Head -- Jock and his Mother -- Saint Columba -- The Mermaid Wife -- The Fiddler and the Bogle of Bogandoran -- Thomas the Rhymer -- Fairy Friends -- The Seal-Catcher's Adventure -- The Fairies of Merlin's Craig -- Rory Macgillivray -- The Haunted Ships -- The Brownie -- Mauns' Stane -- "Horse and Hattock" -- Secret Commonwealth -- The Fairy Boy of Leith -- The Dracæ -- Lord Tarbat's Relations -- The Bogle -- Daoine Shie, or the Men of Peace -- The Death "Bree." | | Legends -- Scotland; Folklore -- Scotland | 2005-11-15 |
| Worldly Ways and Byways | Gregory, Eliot, 1854-1915 | en | | Charm -- The moth and the star -- Contrasted travelling -- The outer and the inner woman -- On some gilded misalliances -- The complacency of mediocrity -- The discontent of talent -- Slouch -- Social suggestion -- Bohemia -- Social exiles -- "Seven Ages" of furniture -- Our elite and public life -- The small summer hotel -- A false start -- A holy land -- Royalty at play -- A rock ahead -- The Grand Prix -- "The treadmill" -- "Like master like man" -- An English invasion of the Riviera -- A common weakness -- Changing Paris -- Contentment -- The climber -- The last of the dandies -- A nation on the wing -- Husks -- The Faubourg St. Germain -- Men's manners -- An ideal hostess -- The introducer -- A question and an answer -- Living on Your friends -- American society in Italy -- The Newport of the past -- A conquest of Europe -- A race of slaves -- Introspection. | | Sociology; American essays -- 19th century | 1995-12-01 |
| 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 |
| The Celtic Twilight | Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 | en | | This book -- A teller of tales -- Belief and unbelief -- Mortal help -- A visionary -- Village ghosts -- 'Dust hath closed Helen's eye' -- A knight of the sheep -- An enduring heart -- The sorcerers -- The devil -- Happy and unhappy theologians -- The last gleeman -- Regina, regina pigmeorum, veni -- 'And fair, fierce women' -- Enchanted woods -- Miraculous creatures -- Aristotle of the books -- The swine of the gods -- A voice -- Kidnappers -- The untiring ones -- Earth, fire and water -- The old town -- The man and his boots -- A coward -- The three O'Byrnes and the evil faeries -- Drumcliff and Rosses -- The thick skull of the fortunate -- The religion of a sailor -- Concerning the nearness together of heaven, earth, and purgatory -- The eaters of precious stones -- Our Lady of the hills -- The golden age -- A remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the disposition of their ghosts and faeries -- War -- The queen and the fool -- The friends of the people of faery -- Dreams that have no moral -- By the roadside -- Into the twilight. | | Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Childhood and youth; Tales -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Poets, Irish -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Mythology, Celtic -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Poets, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography; Folklore -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Sligo (Ireland : County) -- Social life and customs | 2003-12-01 |
| Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete | La Fontaine, Jean de, 1621-1695 | en | | La Fontaine's life -- Preface -- Joconde -- The Cudgelled and Contented Cuckold -- The Husband Confessor -- The Cobbler -- The Peasant and His Angry Lord -- The Muleteer -- The Servant Girl Justified -- The Three Gossips' Wager -- The Old Man's Calendar -- The Avaricious Wife and Tricking Gallant -- The Jealous Husband -- The Gascon Punished -- The Princess Betrothed to the King of Garba -- The Magick Cup -- The Falcon -- The Little Dog -- The Eel Pie -- The Magnificent -- The Ephesian Matron -- Belphegor -- The Little Bell -- The Glutton -- The Two Friends -- The Country Justice Alice Sick -- The Kiss Returned -- Sister Jane -- An Imitation of Anacreon -- Another Imitation of Anacreon -- Preface To The Second Book -- Friar Philip's Geese -- Richard Minutolo -- The Monks of Catalonia -- The Cradle -- St. Julian's Prayer -- The Countryman Who Sought His Calf -- Hans Carvel's Ring -- The Hermit -- The Convent -- Gardener of Lamporechio -- The Mandrake -- The Rhemese -- The Amorous Courtesan -- Nicaise -- The Progress of Wit -- The Sick Abbess -- The Truckers -- The Case of Conscience -- The Devil of Pope-fig Island -- Feronde -- The Psalter -- King Candaules and the Doctor of Laws -- The Devil in Hell -- Neighbour Peter's Mare -- The Spectacles -- The Bucking Tub -- The Impossible Thing -- The Picture -- The Pack-Saddle -- The Ear-maker, and the Mould-mender -- The River Scamander -- The Confidant Without Knowing It, or the Stratagem -- The Clyster -- The Indiscreet Confession -- The Contract -- The Quid Pro Quo, or the Mistakes -- The Dress-maker -- The Gascon -- The Pitcher -- To Promise is One Thing, to Keep It, Another -- The Nightingale -- Epitaph of La Fontaine. | | | 2004-09-21 |
| The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) | Various | en | | An April Aria, by Munkittrick -- "As Good as a Play", by Scudder -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, by Holmes -- The Briefless Barrister, by Saxe -- A Cable-Car Preacher, by Foss -- Cæsar's Quiet Lunch with Cicero, by Fields -- Cheer for the Consumer, by Waterman -- Comin' Home Thanksgivin', by Naylor -- A Complaint of Friends, by Hamilton -- The Coupon Bonds, by Trowbridge -- Crankidoxology, by Irwin -- Desolation, by Masson -- A Desperate Race, by Kelley -- De Stove Pipe Hole, by Drummond -- The Economical Pair, by Wells -- The Family Horse, by Cozzens -- Girl from Mercury, by Vielé -- The Grand Opera, by Baxter -- The Greco-Trojan Game, by Johnson -- How to Know the Wild Animals, by Wells -- How We Bought a Sewin' Machine and Organ, by Allen -- I Remember, I Remember, by Cary -- In a State of Sin, by Wister -- The Loafer and the Squire, by Crayon -- The Love Sonnets of a Husband, by Smiley -- Meditations of a Mariner, by Irwin -- A Modern Advantage, by Becker -- A Modern Eclogue, by Carman -- My Honey, My Love, by Harris -- Ponchus Pilut, by Riley -- Praise-God Barebones, by Cortissoz -- The Raggedy Man, by Riley -- The Shooting-Match, by Longstreet -- Sonnet of the Lovable Lass and the Plethoric Dad, by Foley -- Story of the Two Friars, by Field -- The Two Husbands, by Wells -- The Two Pedestrians, by Wells -- The Two Prisoners, by Wells -- Victory, by Masson -- The Wolf at Susan's Door, by Warner. | Wilder, Marshall Pinckney, 1859-1915 [Editor] | American wit and humor; American literature -- Humor | 2006-07-07 |