title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature | | en | | | Moulton, Richard Green, 1849-1924 [Editor] | | 2008-12-12 |
Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists | | en | | The Science of History. By James Anthony Froude
Race and Language. By Edward A. Freeman
Kin Beyond Sea. By William Ewart Gladstone
Private Judgment. By John Henry Newman
An Apology for Plainspeaking. By Leslie Stephen. | | | 2006-07-10 |
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence
The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of
Slavery to the Present Time | | en | | | Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore, 1875-1935 [Editor] | Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- African American authors; African Americans -- History -- Sources; African American orators | 2007-08-04 |
Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers | | en | | Columbus discovers America / Winsor, J. -- Arrival at the Pacific ocean, 1805 / Lewis and Clarke -- The sources of the Mississippi, 1806 / Pike, Z. M. -- Manila in 1842 / Wilkes, C. -- The ascent of Mount Tyndall / King, C. -- The grand cañon of the Colorado is explored / Powell, J. W. | Iles, George, 1852-1942 [Editor] | | 2009-07-24 |
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 |
Masterpieces of Mystery
Riddle Stories | | en | | The Mysterious Card
The Great Valdez Sapphire
The Oblong Box
The Birth Mark
A Terribly Strange Bed
The Torture by Hope
The Box with the Iron Clamps
My Fascinating Friend
The Lost Room. | French, Joseph Lewis, 1858-1936 [Editor] | Detective and mystery stories; Ghost stories; Short stories | 2009-08-15 |
Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes
Mystic-Humorous Stories | | en | | May-Day Eve -- The Diamond Lens -- The Mummy's Foot -- Mr. Bloke's Item -- A Ghost -- The Man Who Went Too Far -- Chan Tow The Highrob -- The Inmost Light -- The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange -- The Man With The Pale Eyes -- The Rival Ghosts. | French, Joseph Lewis, 1858-1936 [Editor] | Detective and mystery stories; Short stories; Ghost stories | 2007-11-10 |
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 |
Little Masterpieces of Science:
The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer | | en | | The origin of species in summary / C. Darwin -- How "The origin of species" came to be written / C. Darwin -- The descent of man : the argument in brief / C. Darwin -- Mimicry and other protective resemblances among animals / A. R. Wallace -- Evolution of the horse / T. H. Huxley -- Fighting pests with insects allies / L. O. Howard -- The strange story of the flowers : a chapter in modern botany / G. Iles. | Iles, George, 1852-1942 [Editor] | Natural history; Evolution (Biology) | 2009-08-20 |
Little Masterpieces of Science:
Invention and Discovery | | en | | Franklin, B. Lightning identified with electricity -- Faraday, M. Preparing the way for the electric dynamo and motor -- Henry, J. Invention of the electric telegraph -- Iles, G. The first Atlantic cables -- Bell, A. G. The invention of the telephone -- Dam, H. J. W. Photographing the unseen -- Iles, G. The wireless telegraph -- Iles, G. Electricity, what its mastery means: with a review and a prospect -- Rumford, Count (B. Thompson) Heat and motion identified -- Stephenson, G. The "Rocket" locomotive and its victory. | Iles, George, 1852-1942 [Editor] | | 2009-06-25 |
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature | Various | en | | Selections from the Experiences of the A.C. -- Dobbs His Ferry -- Father Higgins's Preferment -- Fred Trover's Little Iron-Clad -- Mr. Bluff Discourses on the Country and Kindred Themes -- Garden Ethics -- Captain Ben's Choice -- Street Scenes in Washington -- Selections from Transcendental Wild Oats -- Conversational Depravity -- The Tower of London -- Science and Natural History -- From the "Lecture" -- Our Tavern -- A Piece of Red Calico -- Aunt Pen's Funeral -- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County -- Ben Thirlwall's School-days -- Selections from a Brace of Boys -- A Rivermouth Romance. | | | 2005-04-08 |
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
Volume I | Various | en | | IRVING -- Wouter Van Twiller -- Wilhelmus Kieft -- Peter Stuyvesant -- Antony Van Corlear -- General Van Poffenburgh -- FRANKLIN Maxims -- Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You Are Unacquainted with -- Epitaph for Himself -- BUTLER Nothing to Wear -- BEECHER Deacon Marble -- The Deacon's Trout -- The Dog Noble and the Empty Hole -- GREENE Old Grimes -- HOLMES My Aunt -- The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, the Wonderful -- "One-hoss Shay" -- Foreign Correspondence -- Music-Pounding -- The Ballad of the Oysterman -- WILLIS Miss Albina McLush -- Love in a Cottage -- PALMER A Smack in School -- SHILLABER ("Mrs. Partington") -- Fancy Diseases -- Bailed Out -- Seeking a Comet -- Going to California -- Mrs. Partington in Court -- SILL Five Lives -- FIELDS The Owl-Critic -- The Alarmed Skipper -- HAY Little Breeches -- SHAW ("Josh Billings") Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats -- LOWELL The Yankee Recruit -- What Mr. Robinson Thinks -- WARNER My Summer in a Garden -- COZZENS Living in the Country -- LELAND Hans Breitmann's Party -- WHICHER Tim Crane and the Widow -- SAXE The Stammering Wife -- KELLEY ("Parmenas Mix") He Came to Pay -- HOLLEY A Pleasure Exertion -- STEDMAN The Diamond Wedding -- MISCELLANEOUS Why He Left -- A Boy's Essay on Girls -- Identified -- One Better -- A Rendition -- A Cause for Thanks -- Crowded -- The Wedding Journey -- A Case of Conscience -- He Rose to the Occasion -- Polite -- Lost, Strayed or Stolen -- A Gentle Complaint -- Music by the Choir -- TWAIN The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County. | Masson, Thomas L., 1866-1934 [Editor] | | 2007-04-21 |