title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Colonel Starbottle's Client | Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 | en | | Colonel Starbottle's client -- The postmistress of Laurel Run -- A night at "Hays" -- Johnson's "old woman" -- The new assistant at Pine Clearing school -- In a pioneer restaurant -- A treasure of the galleon -- Out of a pioneer's trunk --The ghosts of Stukeley castle | | | 2006-03-27 |
Openings in the Old Trail | Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 | en | | A Mercury of the Foot-Hills -- Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff -- The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel -- A Buckeye Hollow Inheritance -- The Reincarnation of Smith -- Lanty Foster's Mistake -- An Ali Baba of the Sierras -- Miss Peggy's Protégés -- The Goddess of Excelsior. | | American fiction -- 19th century; Short stories | 2006-05-18 |
Trent's Trust, and Other Stories | Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 | en | | Trent's Trust -- Mr. Macglowrie's Widow -- A Ward of Colonel Starbottle -- Prosper's "Old Mother" -- The Convalescence of Jack Hamlin -- A Pupil of Chestnut Ridge -- Dick Boyle's Business Card | | Short stories; American fiction -- 19th century | 2006-05-17 |
The Best American Humorous Short Stories | | en | Edited and introduced by Alexander Jessup | The little Frenchman and his water lots -- The angel of the odd -- The schoolmaster's progress -- The Watkinson evening -- Titbottom's spectacles -- My double; and how he undid me -- A visit to the asylum for aged and decayed punsters -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- Elder Brown's backslide -- The hotel experience of Mr. Pink Fluker -- The nice people -- The Buller-Podington compact -- Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff -- The duplicity of Hargraves -- Bargain day at Tutt House -- A call -- How the widow won the deacon -- Gideon. | | | 2004-02-01 |