title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Foolish Dictionary
An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use, confused by a few pictures [not included] | Wurdz, Gideon, 1875- | en | | | | English language -- Dictionaries -- Humor; English language -- Semantics -- Humor; American wit and humor | 2007-04-01 |
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories | Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 | en | | Strength of Gideon--Mammy Peggy's Pride--Viney's Free Papers--The Fruitful Sleeping of The Rev. Elisha Edwards--The Ingrate--The Case of 'Ca'line'--The Finish of Patsy Barnes--One Man's Fortunes--Jim's Probation--Uncle Simon's Sundays Out--Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker--An Old-Time Christmas--A Mess of Pottage--The Trustfulness of Polly--The Tragedy at Three Forks--The Finding of Zach--Johnsonham, Junior--The Faith Cure Man--A Council of State--Silas Jackson | | | 2005-05-23 |
Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers | Rutherford, Mark, 1831-1913 | en | | Gideon -- Samuel -- Saul -- Miriam's Schooling -- Michael Trevanion. | | | 2005-04-02 |
Gideon's Band
A Tale of the Mississippi | Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925 | en | | | | | 2006-09-22 |
The Best American Humorous Short Stories | | en | Edited and introduced by Alexander Jessup | The little Frenchman and his water lots -- The angel of the odd -- The schoolmaster's progress -- The Watkinson evening -- Titbottom's spectacles -- My double; and how he undid me -- A visit to the asylum for aged and decayed punsters -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- Elder Brown's backslide -- The hotel experience of Mr. Pink Fluker -- The nice people -- The Buller-Podington compact -- Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff -- The duplicity of Hargraves -- Bargain day at Tutt House -- A call -- How the widow won the deacon -- Gideon. | | | 2004-02-01 |
The Spinner's Book of Fiction | Various | en | | Concha Argüello, Sister Dominica, by Gertrude Atherton -- The Ford of Crèvecœur, by Mary Austin -- A Californian, by Geraldine Bonner -- Gideon's Knock, by Mary Halleck Foote -- A Yellow Man and a White, by Eleanor Gates -- The Judgment of Man, by James Hopper -- The League of the Old Men, by Jack London -- Down the Flume with the Sneath Piano, by Bailey Millard -- The Contumacy of Sarah L. Walker, by Miriam Michelson -- Breaking Through, by W. C. Morrow -- A Lost Story, by Frank Norris -- Hantu, by Henry Milner Rideout -- Miss. Juno, by Charles Warren Stoddard -- A Little Savage Gentleman, by Isobel Strong -- Love and Advertising, by Richard Walton Tully -- The Tewana, by Herman Whitaker. | | | 2007-01-11 |