title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Settlers at Home | Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 | en | | | Kronheim, Joseph Martin, 1810-1896 [Illustrator] | Immigrants -- England -- Juvenile fiction; Country life -- England -- Juvenile fiction; England -- Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction | 2007-10-31 |
Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers
Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." | | en | | Thomas Hobbes -- Lord Bolingbroke -- Condorcet -- Spinoza -- Anthony Collins -- Des Cartes -- M. de Voltaire -- John Toland -- Compte de Volney -- Charles Blount -- Percy Byssche Shelley -- Claude Arian Helvetius -- Frances W. D'Arusmont -- Epicurus -- Zeno, the Stoic -- Matthew Tindal -- David Hume -- Dr. Thomas Burnet -- Thomas Paine -- Baptiste de Mirabaud -- Baron d'Holbach -- Robert Taylor -- Joseph Barker. | | | 2009-10-06 |
Lecture on the Aborigines of Newfoundland
Delivered Before the Mechanics' Institute, at St. John's,
Newfoundland, on Monday, 17th January, 1859 | Noad, Joseph, 1823-1898 | en | | | | Beothuk Indians; Indians of North America -- Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland and Labrador -- History; Indians of North America -- Origin | 2005-02-21 |
Heart of the West [Annotated] | 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. | Loewenstein, Joseph E. [Annotator] | | 2004-08-03 |
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult | Bédier, Joseph, 1864-1938 | en | | | Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953 [Translator] | Tristan (Legendary character) -- Romances -- Adaptations; Iseult (Legendary character) -- Romances -- Adaptations; Arthurian romances -- Adaptations | 2004-12-03 |
Suspended Judgments
Essays on Books and Sensations | Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963 | en | | The art of discrimination -- Montaigne -- Pascal -- Voltaire -- Rousseau -- Balzac -- Victor Hugo -- Guy de Maupassant -- Anatole France -- Paul Verlaine -- Remy de Gourmont -- William Blake -- Byron -- Emily Brontë -- Joseph Conrad -- Henry James -- Oscar Wilde -- Suspended judgment. | | French literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism | 2008-11-05 |
Great Sea Stories | Various | en | | Spanish Bloodhounds and English Mastiffs, By Kingsley -- The Club-Hauling of the Diomede, By Marryat -- The Cruise of the Torch, By Scott -- The Merchantman and the Pirate, By Reade -- The Mutiny of the Bounty, By Anonymous -- The Wreck of the Royal Caroline, By Cooper -- The Capture of the Great White Whale, By Melville -- The Corvette Claymore, By Hugo -- The Merchants' Cup, By Bone -- A Storm and a Rescue, By Russell -- The Sailor's Wife, By Loti -- The Salving of the Yan-Shan, By Stackpoole -- The Derelict Neptune, By Robertson -- The Terrible Solomons, By London -- El Dorado, By Masefield. | French, Joseph Lewis, 1858-1936 [Editor] | | 2006-05-16 |
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 |
Celtic Fairy Tales | | en | | | Jacobs, Joseph, 1854-1916 [Compiler] | Fairy tales -- Great Britain; Tales -- Great Britain; Fairy tales; Celts -- Folklore; Folklore -- Great Britain; Fairy tales -- Ireland; Folklore -- Ireland; Tales -- Ireland | 2005-04-01 |
Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 | en | | Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt -- Editor's Preface by Arthur Brooks Lapsley -- Abraham Lincoln. An Essay by Carl Shurz -- Abraham Lincoln. Memorial Address by Joseph H. Choate -- The writings of Abraham Lincoln. | | United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865; United States -- Politics and government -- 1849-1861; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Selections; Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 | 2004-10-01 |
Great Pirate Stories | | en | | The Piccaroon. By Scott. -- The Capture of Panama, 1671. By Esquemeling. -- The Malay Proas. By Cooper. -- The Wonderful Fight of the Exchange of Bristol with the Pirates of Algiers. By Purchas. -- The Daughter of the Great Mogul. By Defoe. -- Barbarossa—King of the Corsairs. By Currey. -- Morgan at Puerto Bello. By Esquemeling. -- The Ways of the Buccaneers. By Masefield after Esquemeling. -- A True Account of Three Notorious Pirates. By Pyle, Ed. -- Narrative of the Capture of the Ship Derby, 1735 By Captain Anselm. -- Francis Lolonois, the Slave Who Became a Pirate King. By Esquemeling. -- The Fight between the Dorrill and the Moca -- Jaddi the Malay Pirate -- The Terrible Ladrones. By Glasspoole. -- The Female Captive. By Parker. -- The Passing of Mogul Mackenzie, the Last of the North Atlantic Pirates. By Chute. -- The Last of the Sea-Rovers: The Riff Coast Pirates. By Lord. | French, Joseph Lewis, 1858-1936 [Editor] | | 2008-10-29 |
The Best Short Stories of 1915
And the Yearbook of the American Short Story | | en | | The water-hole / Maxwell Struthers Burt -- The wake / Donn Byrne -- Chautonville / Will Levington Comfort -- La dernière mobilisation / W.A. Dwiggins -- The citizen / James Francis Dwyer -- Whose dog? / Frances Gregg -- Life / Ben Hecht -- T.B. / Fannie Hurst -- Mr. Eberdeen's house / Arthur Johnson -- Vengeance is mine / Virgil Jordan -- The weaver who clad the summer / Harris Merton Lyon -- -- Heart of youth / Walter J. Muilenburg -- The end of the path / Newbold Noyes -- The whale and the grasshopper / Seumas Obrien -- In Berlin / Mary Boyle O’Reilly -- The waiting years / Katharine Metcalf Roof -- Zelig / Benjamin Rosenblatt -- The survivors / Elsie Singmaster -- The yellow cat / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- The bounty-jumper / Mary Synon. | O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington, 1890-1941 [Editor] | American fiction -- 20th century; Short stories, American | 2007-01-07 |
The Best Short Stories of 1920
and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | | en | | The other woman / Sherwood Anderson -- Gargoyle / Edwina Stanton Babcock -- Ghitza / Konrad Bercovici -- The life of five points / Edna Clare Bryner -- The signal tower / Wadsroth Camp -- The parting genius / Helen Oale Crew -- Habakkuk / Katharine Fullerton Gerould -- The judgment of Vulcan / Lee Foster Hartman -- The stick-in-the-muds / Rupert Hughes -- His job / Grace Sartwell Mason -- The rending / James Oppenheim -- The dummy-chucker / Arthur Somers Roche -- Butterflies / Rose Sidney -- The rotter / Fleta Campbel Springer -- Out of exile / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- The three telegrams / Ethel Storm -- The Roman bath / John T. Wheelwright -- Amazement / Stephen French Whitman -- Sheener / Ben Ames Williams -- Turkey red / Frances Gilchrist Wood. | O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington, 1890-1941 [Editor] | Short stories, American; American fiction -- 20th century | 2007-07-17 |
The Best Short Stories of 1917
and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | | en | | Excursion / Edwina Stanton Babcock -- Onnie / Thomas Beer -- Cup of tea / Maxwell Struthers Burt -- Lonely places / Francis Buzzell -- Boys will be boys / Irvin S. Cobb -- Laughter / Charles Caldwell Dobie -- Emperor of Elam / H.G. Dwight -- Gay old dog / Edna Ferber -- Knight's move / Katharine Fullerton Gerould -- Jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Bunker mouse / Frederick Stuart Greene -- Rainbow Pete / Richard Matthews Hallet -- Get ready the wreaths / Fannie Hurst -- Strange looking man / Fanny Kemble Johnson --Caller in the night / Burton Kline -- Interval / Vincent O'Sullivan -- Certain rich man / Lawrence Perry -- Path of glory / Mary Brecht Pulver -- Ching, ching, chinaman / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- None so blind / Mary Synon. | O'Brien, Edward Joseph Harrington, 1890-1941 [Editor] | American fiction -- 20th century; Short stories, American | 2007-03-22 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II | | en | | Of Companions and Flatterers. by Steele
The Story-Teller and His Art. by Steele
Sir Roger and the Widow. by Steele
The Coverley Family Portraits. by Steele
On Certain Symptoms of Greatness. by Steele
How to Be Happy tho Married. by Steele
Of the Shortness of Human Life. by Bolingbroke
Rules for the Study of History. by Bolingbroke
An Ancient English Country Seat. by Pope
His Compliments to Lady Mary. by Pope
How to Make an Epic Poem. by Pope
On Happiness in the Matrimonial State. by Montagu
Inoculation for the Smallpox. by Montagu
Of Good Manners, Dress and the World. by Chesterfield
Of Attentions to Ladies. by Chesterfield
Tom the Hero Enters the Stage; Partridge Sees Garrick at the Play. by Fielding from "Tom Jones"
Mr. Adams in a Political Light. by Fielding from "Joseph Andrews"
On Publishing His "Dictionary." by Johnson from the "Dictionary"
Pope and Dryden Compared. by Johnson from the "Lives of the Poets"
Letter to Chesterfield on the Completion of the "Dictionary." by Johnson from Boswell's "Life"
On the Advantages of Living in a Garret. by Johnson
The Character of Queen Elizabeth; The Defeat of the Armada. by Hume from the "History of England"
The First Principles of Government. by Hume
The Starling in Captivity; To Moulines with Maria. by Sterne from "The Sentimental Journey"
The Death of LeFevre; Passages from the Romance of My Uncle Toby and the Widow. by Sterne from "Tristram Shandy"
Warwick Castle. by Gray
To His Friend Mason on the Death of Mason's Mother. by Gray
On His Own Writings. by Gray
His Friendship for Bonstetten. by Gray
Hogarth. by Walpole from the "Anecdotes of Painting in England"
The War in America. by Walpole
The Death of George II. by Walpole
The Chimney Swallow. by White from "The Natural History of Selborne"
Of Ambition Misdirected. by Smith from the "Theory of Moral Sentiments"
The Advantages of a Division of Labor. b | | | 2007-06-08 |