| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| Complete Essays | Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 | en | | As we were saying -- As we go -- Nine short essays -- Fashions in literature -- The American newspaper -- Certain diversities of American life -- The pilgrim, and the American of today [1892] -- Some causes of the prevailing disconcent -- The education of the negro -- The indeterminate sentence -- Literary copyright -- The relation of literature to life -- "Equality" -- What is your culture to me? -- Modern fiction -- Thoughts suggested by Mr.Froude's "Progress" -- England -- The novel and the common school -- The people for whom Shakespeare wrote. | | | 2004-10-11 |
| The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg -- My First Lie, and How I Got out of it -- The Esquimaux Maiden's Romance -- Christian Science and The Book of Mrs. Eddy -- Is He Living or Is He Dead? -- My Debut as a Literary Person -- At The Appetite-cure -- Concerning The Jews -- From The 'London Times' of 1904 -- About Play-acting -- Travelling with a Reformer -- Diplomatic Pay and Clothes -- Luck -- The Captain's Story -- Stirring Times in Austria -- Meisterschaft -- My Boyhood Dreams -- To The above Old People -- In Memoriam - Olivia Susan Clemens. | | Short stories; City and town life -- Fiction; Honesty -- Fiction; Humorous stories, American; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2004-09-20 |
| Penguin Persons & Peppermints | Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957 | en | | Penguin persons -- Spring comes to Thumping Dick -- The passing of the stage sundial -- On singing songs with one finger -- The immorality of shop-windows -- A forgotten American poet -- New poetry and the lingering line -- The lies we learn in our youth -- The bad manners of polite people -- On giving up golf forever -- "Grape-vine" erudition -- Business before grammar -- Wood ashes and progress -- The vacant room in drama -- On giving an author a plot -- The twilight veil -- Spring in the garden -- The bubble, reputation -- The old house on the bend -- Concerning hat-trees -- The shrinking of Kingman's Field -- Mumblety-peg and middle age -- Barber shops of yesterday -- The button box -- Peppermints. | | | 2008-08-23 |
| The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes | | en | | Feodor Jagor's Travels in the Philippines (the out-of-print 1875 English translation corrected from the original German text) -- The state of the Philippines in 1810, by Tomas de Comyn (William Walton's 1821 translation modernized) -- Manila and Sulu in 1842, by Com. Chas. Wilkes (Narrative of U.S. exploring expedition 1838-42, v. 5) -- Manila in 1819, by Lieut. John White (from the "History of a voyage to the China Sea") -- The peopling of the Philippines, by Doctor Rudolf Virchow (O. T. Mason's translation; Smithsonian institution 1899 report) -- People and prospects of the Philippines, by an English merchant, 1778, and a consul, 1878 (from Blackwood's and the Cornhill magazine) -- Filipino merchants of the early 1890s, by F. Karuth. | Craig, Austin, 1872- [Editor] | | 2004-01-01 |
| In the Wilderness | Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 | en | | How I killed a bear -- Lost in the woods -- A fight with a trout -- A-hunting of the deer -- A character study (Old Phelps) -- Camping out -- A wilderness romance -- What some people call pleasure. | | Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Description and travel; Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains; Wilderness areas -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains; Natural history -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Biography | 2004-10-10 |
| Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 | Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942 | en | | A correspondence and a climax -- An adventure on Island Rock -- At five o'clock in the morning -- Aunt Susanna's birthday celebration -- Bertie's New Year -- Between the hill and the valley -- Clorinda's gifts -- Cyrilla's inspiration -- Dorinda's desperate deed -- Her own people -- Ida's New Year cake -- In the old valley -- Jane Lavinia -- Mackereling out in the gulf -- Millicent's double -- The blue north room -- The Christmas surprise at Enderly Road -- The dissipation of Miss Ponsonby -- The Falsoms' Christmas dinner -- The Fraser Scholarship -- The girl at the gate -- The light on the Big Dipper -- The prodigal brother -- The redemption of John Churchill -- The schoolmaster's letter -- The story of Uncle Dick -- The understanding of Sister Sara -- The unforgotten one -- The wooing of Bessy -- Their girl Josie -- When Jack and Jill took a hand. | | | 2008-03-19 |
| Holiday Stories for Young People | Various | en | | The Clover Leaf Club of Bloomingdale. By Sangster -- The Lighthouse Lamp. By Sangster. -- The Family Mail-bag. By Porter -- A Day's Fishing. By Porter -- Why Charlie Didn't Go. By Porter -- Uncle Giles' Paint Brush. By Porter -- The Pied Piper of Hamelin. By Browning -- A Girl Graduate. By Barnard -- A Christmas Frolic. By Sangster -- Archie's Vacation. By Porter -- A Birthday Story. By Sangster -- A Coquette. By Pierce -- Horatius. By Macaulay -- A Bit of Brightness. By Porter -- How Sammy Earned the Prize. By Sangster -- The Glorious Fourth. -- The Middle Daughter. By Sangster -- The Golden Bird. By Grimm -- Harry Pemberton's Text. By Armstrong -- Our Cats. -- Outovplace. -- The Boy Who Dared to Be a Daniel. By Smith -- Little Redcap. By Grimm -- New Zealand Children. -- The Breeze from the Peak. -- The Bremen Town Musicians. By Grimm -- A Very Queer Steed, and Some Strange Adventures. by Armstrong -- Freedom's Silent Host. By Sangster -- Presence of Mind. By Sangster -- The Boy Who Went from the Sheepfold to the Throne. By Sangster. | Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth, 1838-1912 [Editor] | | 2005-09-04 |
| Steep Trails
California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon | Muir, John, 1838-1914 | en | | Wild wool -- A geologist's winter walk -- Summer days at Mount Shasta -- A perilous night on Shasta's summit -- Shasta rambles and Modoc memories -- The city of the Saints -- A great storm in Utah -- Bathing in Salt Lake-- Mormon lilies -- The San Gabriel Valley -- The San Gabriel Mountains -- Nevada farms -- Nevada forests -- Nevada's timber belt -- Glacial phenomena in Nevada -- Nevada's dead towns -- Puget Sound -- The forests of Washington --People and towns of Puget Sound -- An ascent of Mount Rainier -- The physical and climatic characteristics of Oregon -- The forests of Oregon and their inhabitants -- The rivers of Oregon -- The Grand Canyon of the Colorado. | Badè, William Frederic, 1871-1936 [Editor] | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Shasta, Mount (Calif. : Mountain); Forests and forestry -- West (U.S.) | 1995-09-01 |
| The Violet Fairy Book | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 | en | | A Tale of the Tontlawald -- The finest Liar in the World -- The Story of three wonderful Beggars -- Schippeitaro -- The Three Princes and their Beasts -- The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan -- The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples -- The Lute Player -- The Grateful Prince -- The Child who came from an Egg -- Stan Bolovan -- The Two Frogs -- The Story of a Gazelle -- How a Fish swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water -- Two in a Sack -- The Envious Neighbour -- The Fairy of the Dawn -- The Enchanted Knife -- Jesper who herded the Hares -- The Underground Workers -- The History of Dwarf Long Nose -- The Nunda, Eater of People -- The Story of Hassebu -- The Maiden with the Wooden Helmet -- The Monkey and the Jelly-fish -- The Headless Dwarfs -- The young Man who would have his Eyes opened -- The Boys with the Golden Stars -- The Frog -- The Princess who was hidden Underground -- The Girl who pretended to be a Boy -- The Story of Halfman -- The Prince who wanted to see the World -- Virgililus the Sorcerer -- Mogarzea and his Son. | | Fairy tales; Folklore | 1996-09-01 |
| The Celtic Twilight | Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 | en | | This book -- A teller of tales -- Belief and unbelief -- Mortal help -- A visionary -- Village ghosts -- 'Dust hath closed Helen's eye' -- A knight of the sheep -- An enduring heart -- The sorcerers -- The devil -- Happy and unhappy theologians -- The last gleeman -- Regina, regina pigmeorum, veni -- 'And fair, fierce women' -- Enchanted woods -- Miraculous creatures -- Aristotle of the books -- The swine of the gods -- A voice -- Kidnappers -- The untiring ones -- Earth, fire and water -- The old town -- The man and his boots -- A coward -- The three O'Byrnes and the evil faeries -- Drumcliff and Rosses -- The thick skull of the fortunate -- The religion of a sailor -- Concerning the nearness together of heaven, earth, and purgatory -- The eaters of precious stones -- Our Lady of the hills -- The golden age -- A remonstrance with Scotsmen for having soured the disposition of their ghosts and faeries -- War -- The queen and the fool -- The friends of the people of faery -- Dreams that have no moral -- By the roadside -- Into the twilight. | | Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Childhood and youth; Tales -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Poets, Irish -- Homes and haunts -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Mythology, Celtic -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Poets, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography; Folklore -- Ireland -- Sligo (County); Sligo (Ireland : County) -- Social life and customs | 2003-12-01 |