title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Jersey Street and Jersey Lane
Urban and Suburban Sketches | Bunner, H. C. (Henry Cuyler), 1855-1896 | en | | Jersey and Mulberry -- Tiemann's to Tubby Hook -- The Bowery and Bohemia -- The story of a path -- The lost child -- A letter to town. | | | 2007-05-24 |
The Smart Set
Correspondence & Conversations | Fitch, Clyde, 1865-1909 | en | | The Makeway ball -- The plaintiff -- The summer -- The children -- Maternity -- A letter of introduction -- Wagner, 1897 -- Art -- Sorrow -- The theatre -- The opera -- A perfect day -- The Westington's Bohemian dinner -- The gamblers. | | | 2009-03-10 |
Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters | Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter), 1857-1920 | en | | | | Law, Assyro-Babylonian; Assyro-Babylonian letters; Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian -- Sources | 2009-05-03 |
The Short-story | | en | | Irving: Rip Van Winkle (1820)
Poe: The Gold Bug (1842); The Purloined Letter (1845)
Hawthorne: Howe's Masquerade (1838); The Birthmark (1843)
Harte: The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869)
Stevenson: The Sire de Malétroit's Door (1878); Markheim (1885)
Kipling: Wee Willie Winkie (1888). | | | 2007-06-29 |
The Case of the Registered Letter | Groner, Auguste, 1850-1929 | en | In Joe Muller: Detective, Being the Account of Some Adventures in the Professional Experience of a Member of the Imperial Austrian Police | | Colbron, Grace Isabel, 1869-1948 [Translator] | Fiction; Detective and mystery stories | 1999-07-01 |
The Black-Sealed Letter
Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney. | Spedon, Andrew Learmont, 1831-1884 | en | | | | | 2006-06-06 |
Baby Nightcaps | Fanny, Aunt, 1822-1894 | en | | A nightcap letter from Aunt Fanny -- The story told to Minnie -- Lillie's sayings and doings; or, The effects of a good example -- Jack and his friends -- Little Helen -- How little Susie was lost and found. | | | 2009-04-04 |
A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker' | Carmichael-Smyth, Robert | en | | | | Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865; Railroads -- Canada; Transportation -- Canada; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America | 2008-04-15 |
Foster's Letter Of Marque
A Tale Of Old Sydney - 1901 | Becke, Louis, 1855-1913 | en | | | | Oceania -- Fiction; Short stories; Sea stories; Courtship -- Fiction | 2008-04-12 |
The Present State of Wit (1711)
In a Letter to a Friend in the Country | | en | | Introduction by Bond --
The Present State of wit, in a letter to a Friend in the Country, by Gay (1711) --
Introduction by Britton --
Excerpts from the English Theophrastus: or, the manners of the Age. Being the modern characters of the court, the town, and the city, ascribed to Boyer (1702). | | | 2005-01-27 |
Letter from Monsieur de Cros,... being an answer to Sir Wm Temple's memoirs... [1693] | Cros, Monsieur de | en | | | | | 2010-06-02 |
Letter of the Law | Nourse, Alan Edward, 1928-1992 | en | | | | Science fiction; Short stories; Legal stories | 2008-01-14 |
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4)
Ghost Stories | | en | | The Listener
Number 13
Joseph: A Story
The Horla
The Beast with Five Fingers
Sister Maddelena
Thrawn Janet
The Yellow Cat
Letter to Sura. | French, Joseph Lewis, 1858-1936 [Editor] | Detective and mystery stories; Ghost stories; Short stories | 2009-01-06 |
Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley (1712) and The British Academy (1712) | | en | | | Landa, Louis A., 1901- [Commentator] | Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Proposal for correcting, improving, and ascertaining the English tongue; British Academy, London (Founded ca. 1712); Académie française; English language -- Early works to 1800 | 2008-04-19 |
Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707)
From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) | Cobb, Samuel, 1675-1713 | en | | A Discourse on criticism and the liberty of writing. In a Letter to Richard Carter Esq; late of the Middle-Temple, now living in Barbadoes. --
A Discourse Of Poetry. 1. Its Antiquity. 2. Its Progress. 3. Its Improvement. A poem. | Bredvold, Louis I. [Author of introduction, etc.] | | 2004-12-30 |
Molly Make-Believe | Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell, 1872-1958 | en | | | Tittle, Walter, 1883-1966 [Illustrator] | Letter writing -- Fiction; Invalids -- Fiction; Mate selection -- Fiction; Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | 2006-06-23 |
Right Above Race | Kahn, Otto Hermann, 1867-1934 | en | | Americans of German origin and the war -- Prussionized Germany -- The poison growth of Prussianism -- Frenzied liberty -- The myth of "a rich man's war" -- Letter to a German. | | | 2009-11-20 |
Femmes d'artistes. English | Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897 | en | | Prologue -- Madam Heurtebise -- The credo of love -- The Transteverina -- A couple of singers -- A misunderstanding -- Assault with violence -- Bohemia at home -- Fragment of a woman's letter -- A great man's widow -- The deceiver -- The Comtesse Irma -- The confidences of an academic coat. | Ensor, Laura [Translator] | | 2007-09-05 |
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories | | en | | MAUPASSANT: The Necklace; The Man with the Pale Eyes; An Uncomfortable Bed; Ghosts; Fear; The Confession; The Horla -- MILLE: The Miracle of Zobéide -- ADAM: The Torture by Hope -- ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN: The Owl's Ear; The Invisible Eye; The Waters of Death -- BALZAC: Melmoth Reconciled; The Conscript -- VOLTAIRE: Zadig the Babylonian -- ALARÇON: The Nail -- CAPUANA: The Deposition -- APULEIUS: The Adventure of the Three Robbers -- PLINY: Letter to Sura. | | | 2004-06-28 |
Plantation Sketches | Devereux, Margaret | en | | Letter to my grandchildren -- Plantation life -- Going to the plantation -- My own early home -- Two Bob Whites -- Little Dave -- The hog-feeder's day -- The junior reserve -- Mammy -- War reminiscences. | Winslow, Arthur, 1860- [Editor] | Plantation life; North Carolina -- Social life and customs | 2007-09-19 |
Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes
Detective Stories | | en | | The Purloined Letter
The Black Hand
The Biter Bit
Missing: Page Thirteen
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Rope of Fear
The Safety Match
Some Scotland Yard Stories; from "Criminals and Crime". | French, Joseph Lewis, 1858-1936 [Editor] | Ghost stories; Detective and mystery stories; Short stories | 2008-12-13 |
Just So Stories | Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 | en | | How the Whale got his Throat -- How the Camel got his Hump -- How the Rhinoceros got its Skin -- How the Leopard got his Spots -- The Elephant's Child -- The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo -- The Beginning of the Armadillos -- How the First Letter was Written -- How the Alphabet was Made -- The Crab that Played with the Sea -- The Cat that walked by Himself -- The Butterfly that Stamped. | | Animals -- Fiction; Short stories; Children's stories, English | 2001-08-01 |
International Short Stories: French | | en | | A piece of bread -- The elixir of life -- The age for love -- Mateo Falcone -- The mirror -- My nephew Joseph -- A forest betrothal -- Zadig the Babylonian -- Abandoned -- The guilty secret -- Jean Monette -- Solange -- The birds in the letter-box -- Jean Gourdon's four days -- Baron de Trenck -- The passage of the Red Sea -- The woman and the cat -- Gil Blas and Dr. Sangrado -- A fight with a cannon -- Tonton -- The last lesson -- Croisilles -- the vase of clay. | | | 2004-01-01 |
Crooked Trails | Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909 | en | | How the law got into the chaparral -- The blue quail of the cactus -- A sergeant of the Orphan Troop -- The spirit of Mahongui -- The essentials at Fort Adobe -- Massai's crooked trail -- Joshua Goodenough's old letter -- Cracker cowboys of Florida -- The strange days that came to Jimmie Friday -- The Soledad girls. | | Western stories; West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2005-04-01 |
The Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 | en | | | | Adultery -- Fiction; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction; Clergy -- Fiction; Historical fiction; Illegitimate children -- Fiction; Married women -- Fiction; Psychological fiction; Puritans -- Fiction; Revenge -- Fiction; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Women immigrants -- Fiction | 2008-05-05 |