| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| Cathemerinon. English | Prudentius, 348- | | | | Pope, R. Martin (Robert Martin), 1865-1944 [Translator] | Prudentius, b. 348 -- Translations into English; Christian poetry, Latin -- Translations into English; Hymns, Latin -- Translations into English | 2005-02-07 |
| A Humorous History of England | Harrison, Charles, -1943 | en | | | | Humorous poetry; Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain; English wit and humor; Great Britain -- History -- Humor | 2008-08-22 |
| The National Nursery Book
With 120 illustrations | Unknown | en | | Red Riding-Hood -- Puss-in-boots -- Mother Hubbard -- Cock Robin’s death -- Jack and the bean-stalk -- Tom Thumb -- Cinderella -- The three bears -- Punch and Judy -- The pets -- Nursery songs -- Nursery rhymes -- Nursery ditties -- Nursery tales -- Nursery jingles. | | Children's stories; Children's poetry; Picture books for children; Fairy tales; Nursery rhymes | 2008-03-08 |
| The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' | Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel | en | | | | Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost; Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Knowledge -- Astronomy; Epic poetry, English -- History and criticism; Astronomy in literature | 2009-03-29 |
| Life Immovable
First Part | Palamas, Kostes, 1859-1943 | en | | | Phoutrides, Aristides E. (Aristides Evangelus), 1887-1923 [Translator] | Palamas, Kostes, 1859-1943 -- Translations into English; Greek poetry, Modern -- Translations into English | 2008-01-07 |
| The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany | Remy, Arthur F. J., 1871-1954 | en | Columbia University series of Germanic studies, vol. I, no. IV | | | German literature -- History and criticism; Literature, Comparative -- Sanskrit and German; Literature, Comparative -- German and Sanskrit; Literature, Comparative -- Persian and German; Literature, Comparative -- German and Persian | 2006-03-05 |
| Jewish Literature and Other Essays | Karpeles, Gustav, 1848-1909 | en | | A glance at Jewish literature -- The Talmud -- The Jew in the history of civilization -- Women in Jewish literature -- Moses Maimonides -- Jewish troubadours and minnesingers -- Humor and love in Jewish poetry -- The Jewish stage -- The Jew's quest in Africa -- A Jewish king in Poland -- Jewish society in the time of Mendelssohn -- Leopold Zunz -- Heinrich Heine and Judaism -- The music of the synagogue. | | Jews; Jewish literature -- History and criticism | 2009-01-27 |
| The Daughter of the Storage
And Other Things in Prose and Verse | Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 | en | | The daughter of the storage -- A presentiment -- Captain Dunlevy's last trip -- The return to favor -- Somebody's mother -- The face at the window -- An experience -- The boarders -- Breakfast is my best meal -- The mother-bird -- The amigo -- Black Cross farm -- The critical book-store -- A feast of reason -- City and country in the fall -- Table talk -- The escapade of a grandfather -- Self-sacrifice: a farce-tragedy -- The night before Christmas. | | Short stories; Poetry | 2009-09-18 |
| Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 | en | | Biographical sketch -- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep -- Wee Willie Winkie -- The dove of Dacca -- The smoke upon your altar dies -- Recessional -- L'envoi -- The sing-song of Old Man Kangaroo -- Fuzzy-Wuzzy -- The English flag -- The king -- To the unknown goddess -- The galley slave -- The ship that found herself -- A trip across a continent -- The Children of the Zodiac -- The bridge builders -- The miracles -- Our Lady of the Snows -- The song of the women -- The White Man's burden. | | Short stories; Poetry | 2009-11-30 |
| The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies | Buchan, John, 1875-1940 | en | | From the Pentlands looking north and south -- The company of the Marjolaine, Avignon, 1759 -- A lucid interval -- The shorter catechism -- The Lemnian, Atta's song -- Space, Stocks and stones -- Streams of water in the south --The gipsy's song to the Lady Cassilis -- The grove of Ashtaroth, Wood magic -- The riding of Ninemileburn -- Plain folk -- The kings of Orion. Babylon -- The rime of true Thomas. | | Poetry; Short stories; Fiction | 1996-11-01 |
| Chatterbox Stories of Natural History | Anonymous | en | | | | Children's poetry; Children's stories; Animals -- Juvenile literature; Natural history -- Juvenile literature; Nature stories | 2007-08-26 |
| Hearts of Controversy | Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson, 1847-1922 | en | | Some thoughts of a reader of Tennyson -- Dickens as a man of letters -- Swinburne's lyrical poetry -- Charlotte and Emily Bronte -- Charmian -- The century of moderation | | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909; Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855; Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848 | 1998-03-01 |
| Phebe, the Blackberry Girl
Uncle Thomas's Stories for Good Children | Anonymous | en | | The blackberry girl -- Good children -- Poor crazy Robert -- The pet lamb -- Father William and the young man -- The little girl and her pets -- The flowers -- The child and the flowers -- One, two, buckle my shoe -- Washing and dressing -- The industrious boy -- We are seven / by Wm. Wordsworth -- The idle boy -- Casabianca -- Twinkle, twinkle, little star. | | Children -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction; Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Children and animals -- Juvenile fiction; Children's poetry | 2009-05-02 |
| Twilight Stories | | en | | Christmas day -- The only woman in the town -- The conquest of Fairyland -- Kentucky Belle -- Prophecies -- Why he was whipped -- "Apples Finkey": the water-boy -- The soldier's reprieve -- Little brown thrushes -- The story of the empty sleeve -- Facing the world -- Robert of Lincoln -- "Dixie" and "Yankee Doodle" -- The barefoot boy -- Babouscka -- Daisies -- Driving home the cows -- The baby's kiss -- The lost diamond snuff box -- The American flag -- Aunt Polly Shedd's brigade -- Corinne's musicale -- Barbara Frietchie -- Sheridan's ride -- The children's hour -- Caryl's plum -- Our two opinions. | | Children's literature; Short stories; Poetry | 1996-07-01 |
| Harry's Ladder to Learning | Anonymous | en | | Part I. Harry's horn-book -- Part II. Harry's picture-book -- Part III. Harry's nursery songs -- Part IV. Harry's nursery tales -- Part V. Harry's simple stories -- Part VI. Harry's country walks. | | Picture books for children; Children's poetry; Children's stories; Country life -- Juvenile fiction; Nursery rhymes; Readers | 2008-02-19 |
| The Little Tea Book | | en | | The origin of tea -- Tea [poem] / by Francis Saltus Saltus -- little cups of Chinese and Japanese tea -- On tea [poem] / by Edmund Waller -- Some English tea history -- O tea! [poem] / Arthur Gray -- Tea terms (Japanese. Chinese) -- Tea leaves / by John Ernest McCann -- Wit, wisdom and humor of tea -- Fate / Churchill -- Tea making and taking in Japan and China -- Tea-drinking in other lands -- The tea-table -- Ladies, literature and tea -- On our English poetry and this poem upon tea / R. B. -- To the author on his poem upon tea / T. W. -- Poems from J. Roberts pamphlet (London, 1700) -- Dr. Johnson's affinity -- Earliest mention of tea -- Australian tea -- Five o'clock tea -- Tea in ladies' novels -- Sydney Smith -- Dr. Johnson again -- A cup of tea [poem] / Helen Gray Cone. | | | 2006-09-27 |
| 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 |
| Harvard Classics Volume 28
Essays English and American | | en | | Jonathan Swift by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
What is a University?; Site of a University; University Life at Athens by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
The Study of Poetry by MATTHEW ARNOLD
Sesame: of Kings' Treasuries; Lilies: of Queens' Gardens by JOHN RUSKIN
John Milton by WALTER BAGEHOT
Science and Culture by THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Race and Language by EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN
Truth of Intercourse; Samuel Pepys by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The Poetic Principle by EDGAR ALLAN POE
Walking by HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Abraham Lincoln; Democracy by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. | Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 [Editor] | English essays; American essays | 2007-06-29 |
| Small Means and Great Ends | | en | | Small means and great ends. -- Mary Ellen. -- The dead child to its mother. -- Hope. -- The young soldier. -- The stolen children. -- My grandmother's cottage. -- The first oath. -- The fairy's gift. -- A lesson taught by nature. -- Florence Drew. -- Shechem. -- "Are we not all brothers and sisters?" -- Fortune-telling. -- The boy who stole the nails. -- The childless mother. -- The motherless child. -- Faith. -- The snow-birds. -- Mount Carmel. -- The philosophy of life. -- The starving poor of Ireland. -- The sabbath school festival. -- Nelly Grey. -- The four evangelists. -- May-Day. -- The snow-drop. --Caging birds. | Adams, M. H. (Mary Hall), 1816-1860 [Editor] | Children's stories; Children's poetry; Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Christian life -- Juvenile fiction | 2004-03-01 |
| The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | The 30,000 Dollar Bequest
A Dog's Tale
Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
A Cure for the Blues
The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant
The Californian's Tale
A Helpless Situation
A Telephonic Conversation
Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale
The Five Boons of Life
The First Writing-machines
Italian without a Master
Italian with Grammar
A Burlesque Biography
How to Tell a Story
General Washington's Negro Body-servant
Wit Inspirations of the "Two-year-olds"
An Entertaining Article
A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
Amended Obituaries
A Monument to Adam
A Humane Word from Satan
Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English"
Advice to Little Girls
Post-mortem Poetry
The Danger of Lying in Bed
Portrait of King William III
Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
Extracts from Adam's Diary
Eve's Diary | | Fiction; Short stories | 2004-09-14 |
| Autumn Leaves
Original Pieces in Prose and Verse | | en | Images of the original pages are available through the Wright American Fiction Project of the Library Electronic Text Service of Indiana University. http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/ | Christmas Revived -- In the Churchyard at Cambridge. A Legend of Lady Lee -- The Little South-wind -- Lines Written at the Close of Dr. Holme's Lectures on English Poetry -- Aunt Molly. A Reminiscence of Old Cambridge -- The Sounds of Morning in Cambridge -- The Sounds of Evening in Cambridge -- To the Near-sighted -- Flower's from a Student's Walks -- Miseries. No. 1 -- Miseries. No. 2 A Dark Night -- Miseries. No. 3 Twine -- Miseries. No. 4 Fresh Air -- Farewell -- Innocent Surprises -- The Old Sailor -- Laughter -- To Stephen -- The Old Church -- "Something than Beauty Dearer" -- A Tale Found in the Repositories of the Abbots of the Middle Ages -- The Sea -- Fashion -- A Growl -- To Jenny Lind -- My Herbarium -- The Ostrich -- Cows -- The Home-beacon -- The Fourth of July -- From the Papers of Reginald Ratcliffe, Esq. | Abbot, Anne Wales, 1808-1908 [Editor] | | 2005-11-30 |
| Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 | Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 | en | | United Amateur Press Association: Exponent of Amateur Journalism -- Department of Public Criticism -- March -- Little Journeys to the Homes of Prominent Amateurs, by Lockhart -- The Teuton's Battle-Song, by Lodbrog -- An Epistle to Rheinhart Kleiner, Esq., Poet-Laureate, and Author of "Another Endless Day" -- The Alchemist -- Ode for July Fourth, 1917 -- News Notes: To M. W. M. -- A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson, by Littlewit -- Reports of Officers: President's Message -- Sunset -- Astrophobos, by Phillips -- At the Root -- Department of Literature: The Literature of Rome -- To Alan Seeger -- Theodore Roosevelt -- A Note on Howard P. Lovecraft's Verse, by Kleiner -- Helene Hoffman Cole—Litterateur -- Americanism -- The White Ship -- To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema, by Theobald -- Literary Composition -- For What Does the United Stand? -- Poetry and the Gods, by Crofts and Paget-Lowe -- Nyarlathotep -- Editorial -- Winifred Virginia Jackson: A "Different" Poetess -- Ex Oblivione, by Phillips -- At the Home of Poe, by Long. | | | 2009-12-09 |
| The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07
Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes | Various | en | | The Life of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. By J. Loewenberg. -- Hegel: Introduction to the Philosophy of History. -- The Philosophy of Law. -- Introduction to the Philosophy of Art. -- The Life of Bettina von Arnim. By Henry Wood. -- von Arnim: Goethe's Correspondence with a Child. -- Immermann and His Drama Merlin. By Martin Schütze. -- Immermann's Münchhausen. By Allen Wilson Porterfield. -- Immermann: The Oberhof. -- Gutzkow and Young Germany. By Starr Willard Cutting. -- Gutzkow: Sword and Queue. -- German Lyric Poetry from 1830 to 1848. By John S. Nollen. -- Grün: A Salon Scene. -- Lenau: Prayer. -- Sedge Songs. -- Songs by the Lake. -- The Postilion. -- To the Beloved from Afar. -- The Three Gipsies. -- My Heart. -- Mörike: An Error Chanced. -- A Song for Two in the Night. -- Early Away. -- The Forsaken Maiden. -- Weyla's Song. -- Seclusion. -- The Soldier's Betrothed. -- The Old Weathercock: An Idyll. -- Think of It, My Soul. -- Erinna to Sappho. -- Mozart's Journey from Vienna to Prague. -- von Droste-Hülshoff: Pentecost. -- The House in the Heath. -- The Boy on the Moor. -- On the Tower. -- The Desolate House. -- The Jew's Beech-Tree. -- Freiligrath: The Duration of Love. -- The Emigrants. -- The Lion's Ride. -- The Spectre-Caravan. -- Had I at Mecca's Gate been Nourished. -- Wild Flowers. -- The Dead to the Living. -- Hurrah, Germania! -- The Trumpet of Gravelotte. -- von Strachwitz: Douglas of the Bleeding Heart. -- Herwegh: The Stirrup-Cup. -- Geibel: The Watchman's Song. -- The Call of the Road. -- Autumn Days. -- The Death of Tiberius. | | | 2004-05-01 |
| 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 |
| Gesammelte Werke in fünf Bänden — 1. Band | Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne, 1832-1910 | de | | Nils Finn -- Lied der Jungfrauen -- Die Taube -- Vaterlandsweise -- Ein Lied für Norwegen -- Norwegens Antwort auf die Reden im schwedischen Ritterhaus -- Johan Ludvig Heiberg -- Das Meer -- Allein und in Reue -- Die Prinzessin -- Vom Monte Pincio -- Ach, wüßtest du nur! -- Die Engel des Schlafes -- Das Mädchen am Strand -- Heimliche Liebe -- Olav Trygvason -- Seufzer -- An ein Patenkind -- Bergliot -- An meine Frau -- In einer schweren Stunde -- Frida -- An Bergen -- P.A. Munch -- König Friedrich der Siebente -- Als Norwegen nicht helfen wollte -- An den Danebrog -- Der Norrönastamm -- Gesang der Puritaner -- Jagdlied -- Taylors Lied -- Hochzeitslied I. -- Lektor Thåsen -- Auf einer Reise durch Schweden -- Stelldichein -- Lied des Studentengesangvereins -- An den Buchhändler Johann Dahl -- Die Spinnerin -- Die weiße und die rote Rose -- In der Jugend -- Das blonde Mädchen -- Mein Monat -- Hochzeitslied II. -- Norwegisches Seemannslied -- Halfdan Kjerulf -- Vorwärts -- Wie man sich fand -- Norwegische Natur -- Ich reiste vorüber -- Mein Geleit -- An meinen Vater -- An Erika Lie -- An Johan Sverdrup -- Das Kind in unsrer Seele -- Der alte Heltberg -- Für die Verwundeten -- Land in Sicht -- An H.C. Andersen -- Bei einer Ehefrau -- Tode -- An der Bahre des Kirchensängers A. Reitan -- Das Lied -- Auf N.F.S. Grundtvigs Tod -- Aus der Kantate für N.F.S. Grundtvig -- Bei einem Fest für Ludv. Kr. Daa -- Nein, wo bleibst du doch? -- Weckruf an das Freiheitsvolk im Norden--Der "vereinigten Linken" -- Offne Wasser -- Freiheitslied--An "die vereinigte Linke" -- An Molde -- Die reine norwegische Flagge -- An den Missionar Skrefsrud in Santalistan -- Post festum -- Romsdalen -- Holger Drachmann -- Wiedersehen -- Des Dichters Sendung -- Psalmen -- Frage und Antwort -- Wecklied an die norwegische Schützengilde -- Arbeitermarsch -- Der Zukunft Land -- Ein junges Völkchen kerngesund -- Norge, Norge -- Meistern oder gemeistert werden -- Im Walde -- Der siebzehnte Mai -- Frederik Hegel -- Unsere Sprache
Thrond | | Short stories; Norway -- Fiction; Scandinavian poetry -- Translations into German | 2004-07-16 |