| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| History Plays for the Grammar Grades | Lyng, Mary Ella | en | | Christopher Columbus -- John Smith and Pocahontas -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- William Penn -- Sir Francis Drake -- Pilgrims -- George Washington and other heroes of the revolution -- George Rogers Clark -- Andrew Jackson -- John C. Fremont -- Webster, Clay and Calhoun -- The story of Abraham Lincoln -- Grant and Lee -- Robert E. Lee -- Some women of history. | | | 2009-03-26 |
| Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race | Ebbutt, M. I. (Maud Isabel), 1867- | en | | Beowulf -- The dream of Maxem Wledig -- The story of Constantine and Elene -- The compassion of Constantine -- Havelock the Dane -- Howard the Halt -- Roland, the hero of early France -- The Countess Cathleen -- Cuchulain, the champion of Ireland -- The tale of Gamelyn -- William of Cloudeslee -- Black Colin of Loch Awe -- The marriage of Sir Gawayne -- King Horn -- Robin Hood -- Hereward the Wake. | | Romances, English; Heroes | 2008-05-17 |
| The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier | Bronson, Edgar Beecher, 1856-1917 | en | | Loving's bend -- A cow-hunters' court -- A self-constituted executioner -- Triggerfingeritis -- A juggler with death -- An aerial bivouac -- The evolution of a train robber -- Circus day at Mancos -- Across the border -- The three-legged doe and the blind buck -- The Lemon County hunt -- El Tigre -- Bunkered -- They who must be obeyed -- Djama Aout's heroism -- A modern Coeur-de-lion. | | Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs | 2007-08-17 |
| Myths That Every Child Should Know
A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People | Various | en | | The three golden apples, from Hawthorne's "Wonder Book" -- The pomegranate seeds, from Hawthorne's "Tanglewood Tales" -- The chimaera; The golden touch; The gorgon's head, from "Wonder Book" -- The dragon's teeth, from "Tanglewood Tales" -- The miraculous pitcher; The paradise of children, from "Wonder Book" -- The cyclops, from Church's "Stories from Homer" -- The argonauts, from Kingsley's "Greek Heroes" -- The giant builder; How Odin lost his eye; The quest of the hammer; The apples of Idun, from "In Days of Giants" -- The death of Balder, from "Norse Stories" -- The star and the lily, from Miss Emerson's "Indian Myths". | | | 2005-08-17 |
| The Literary World Seventh Reader | | en | | Rip Van Winkle, by Irving -- The Great Stone Face, by Hawthorne -- The Courtship of Miles Standish, by Longfellow -- The Friendship of Nantaquas, by Johnston -- Harry Esmond's Boyhood, by Thackeray -- The Family Holds Its Head Up, by Goldsmith -- The Little Boy in the Balcony, by Grady -- Ariel's Triumph, by Tarkington -- The Cloud, by Shelley -- New England Weather, by Twain -- The First Snowfall, by Lowell -- Old Ephraim, by Roosevelt -- Midwinter, by Trowbridge -- A Georgia Fox Hunt, by Harris -- Rain and Wind, by Cawein -- The Southern Sky, by Maury -- Daffodils, by Wordsworth -- Dawn, by Everett -- Spring, by Timrod -- Among the Cliffs, by Craddock -- A Deal in Bears, by Hyne -- Lochinvar, by Scott -- In Labrador, by Wells -- The Bugle Song, by Tennyson -- The Siege of the Castle, by Scott -- Sea Fever, by Masefield -- A Greyport Legend, by Harte -- A Hunt Beneath The Ocean, by Verne -- Under Seas, by Tolstoi -- A Voyage to the Moon, by Poe -- The Great Stone of Sardis, by Stockton -- A Stop At Suzanne's, by Clover -- The Making of a Man, by Locke -- In Flanders Fields, by McCrae -- In Flanders Fields (An Answer), by Galbraith -- A Ballad Of Heroes, by Dobson. | | | 2006-11-05 |
| Children of the Tenements | Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914 | en | | The rent baby -- A story of Bleecker Street -- The kid hangs up his stocking -- The slipper-maker's fast -- Death comes to Cat Alley -- A proposal on the elevated -- Little Will's message -- Lost children -- Paolo's awakening -- The little dollar's Christmas journey -- The kid -- When the letter came -- The cat took the kosher meat -- Nibsy's Christmas -- In the children's hospital -- Nigger Martha's wake -- What the Christmas sun saw in the tenements -- Midwinter in New York -- A chip from the maelstrom -- Sarah Joyce's husbands -- Merry Christmas in the tenements -- Abe's game of jacks -- A little picture -- A dream of the woods -- 'Twas 'Liza's doings -- Heroes who fight fire -- John Gavin, misfit -- A heathen baby -- The christening in Bottle Alley -- In the Mulberry Street court -- Difficulties of a deacon -- Fire in the barracks -- War on the goats -- He kept his tryst -- Rover's last fight -- How Jim went to the war -- A backwoods hero -- Jack's sermon -- Skippy of Scrabble Alley -- Making a way out of the slum. | Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark), 1863-1932 [Illustrator] | Short stories, American; Tenement houses -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction | 2007-05-23 |
| The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III | | en | | Excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Johnson"
A Poet Defined, from the Preface to "Lyrical Ballads" by Wordsworth
The Arrival of the Master of Ravenswood, from "The Bride of Lammermoor" by Scott
The Death of Meg Merriles, from "Guy Mannering" by Scott
A Vision of Rob Roy, from "Rob Roy" by Scott
Queen Elizabeth and Amy Robsart at Kenilworth, from "Kenilworth" by Scott
The Illness and Death of Lady Scott, from Scott's "Journal"
Does Fortune Favor Fools?, from "A Sailor's Fortune" by Coleridge
The Destiny of the United States, from the "Table Talk" by Coleridge
Nelson's Death at Trafalgar, from the "Life of Nelson" by Southey
The Death of Hofer, by Landor
Napoleon and Pericles, by Landor
Dream Children—A Reverie; Poor Relations; The Origin of Roast Pig; That We Should Rise with the Lark, from the "Essays of Elia" by Lamb
Hamlet, from the "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" by Hazlitt
Dreams of an Opium-Eater, from the "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" by de Quincey
Joan of Arc, from the "Biographical and Historical Essays" by de Quincey
Charles Lamb, from the "Literary Reminiscences" by de Quincey
Of His Mother's Treatment of Him, letter by Lord Byron
To His Wife after the Separation, letter by Lord Byron
To Sir Walter Scott, letter by Lord Byron
Of Art and Nature as Poetical Subjects, from the "Reply to Bowles" by Lord Byron
In Defense of Poetry, by Shelley
The Baths of Caracalla, from letter by Shelley
The ruins of Pompeii, from letter by Shelley
The Mutilation of the Hermæ; If Alexander Had Lived, from the "History of Greece" by Grote
Charlotte Corday, from the "History of the French Revolution" by Carlyle
The Blessedness of Work, from "Past and Present" by Carlyle
Cromwell, from "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History" by Carlyle
In Praise of Those Who Toil, from "Sart | | | 2007-07-30 |