title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel | Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness, 1865-1947 | en | More Pimpernel | | | Blakeney, Percy, Sir (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction; Nobility -- Great Britain -- Fiction; British -- France -- Fiction; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction; Historical fiction; Adventure stories | 1999-05-01 |
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories | Gissing, George, 1857-1903 | en | | The work of George Gissing : An introductory survey -- The house of cobwebs -- A capitalist -- Christopherson -- Humplebee -- The scrupulous father -- A poor gentleman -- Miss Rodney's leisure -- A charming family -- A daughter of the lodge -- The riding-whip -- Fate and the apothecary -- Topham's chance -- A lodger in maze pond -- The salt of the earth -- The pig and whistle. | | | 2004-03-01 |
The Mucker | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | en | Originally published serially as "The Mucker" and "The Return of the Mucker" | | | Fiction; Adventure stories | 1995-09-01 |
Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 | en | | | Winter, Milo, 1886-1956 [Illustrator] | Pirates -- Fiction; Sea stories; Treasure Island (Imaginary place) -- Fiction; Treasure troves -- Fiction | 2009-01-12 |
The Lifeboat | Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894 | en | | | | Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Lifeboats -- Juvenile fiction; Lifesaving -- Juvenile fiction; Sailors -- Juvenile fiction; Sea stories; Seafaring life -- Juvenile fiction; Search and rescue operations -- Juvenile fiction | 2007-06-07 |
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea | Robertson, Morgan, 1861-1915 | en | | "Where angels fear to tread" -- The brain of the battle-ship -- The wigwag message -- The trade-wind -- Salvage -- Between the millstones -- The battle of the monsters -- From the royal-yard down -- Needs must when the devil drives -- When Greek meets Greek -- Primordial. | | | 2007-11-18 |
Secret Adversary | Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 | en | | | | Domestic fiction; Detective and mystery stories; Married people -- Fiction; Private investigators -- England -- Fiction; Beresford, Tuppence (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Beresford, Tommy (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | 1998-01-01 |
Earth's Enigmas
A Volume of Stories | Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir, 1860-1943 | en | | Do seek their meat from God -- The perdu -- "The young ravens that call upon him" -- Within sound of the saws -- The butt of the camp -- In the accident ward -- The romance of an ox-team -- A tragedy of the tides -- At the rough-and-tumble landing -- An experience of Jabez Batterpole -- The stone dog -- The barn on the marsh -- Captain Joe and Jamie -- Strayed -- The eye of Gluskâp. | | Manners and customs -- Fiction; Short stories | 2006-12-30 |
Dog of St. Bernard and Other Stories | Anonymous | en | | | | Saint Bernard dog -- Juvenile literature; Lifesaving -- Juvenile literature; Rescue dogs -- Juvenile literature | 2007-11-08 |
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition
Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 | en | | | | Indexes; American fiction -- 19th century; Fantasy fiction; Horror tales, American; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Short stories | 2008-05-19 |
Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) | Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark), 1863-1943 | en | | Deserted -- Homeward bound -- Self-help -- Sentence deferred -- "Matrimonial openings" -- Odd man out -- "The toll-house" -- Peter's pence -- The head of the family -- Prize money -- Double dealing -- Keeping up appearances. | Owen, Will, 1869-1957 [Illustrator] | Humorous stories, English; England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2004-01-01 |
The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories | Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904 | en | | The Cook's Wedding -- Sleepy -- Children -- The Runaway -- Grisha -- Oysters -- Home -- A Classical Student -- Vanka -- An Incident -- A Day In The Country -- Boys -- Shrove Tuesday -- The Old House -- In Passion Week -- Whitebrow -- Kashtanka -- A Chameleon -- The Dependents -- Who Was To Blame? -- The Bird Market -- An Adventure -- The Fish -- Art -- The Swedish Match. | Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946 [Translator] | | 2004-09-09 |
Other Things Being Equal | Wolf, Emma, 1865-1932 | en | | | | Jews -- California -- San Francisco -- Fiction; Interfaith marriage -- Fiction; Jewish families -- Fiction; Jewish women -- Fiction; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction; Domestic fiction; Jewish fiction; Love stories | 1999-08-01 |
If, Yes and Perhaps
Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact | Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 | en | | The children of the public -- A piece of possible history -- The South American editor -- The old and the new, face to face -- The dot and line alphabet -- The last voyage of the Resolute -- My double, and how he undid me -- The man without a country -- The last of the Florida -- The skeleton in the closet -- Christmas waits in Boston. | | United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Short stories, American | 2009-03-21 |
Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories | Kelly, Florence Finch, 1858-1939 | en | | Emerson's Wife -- Colonel Kate's Protegee -- The Kid of Apache Teju -- A Blaze on Pard Huff -- How Colonel Kate Won Her Spurs -- Hollyhocks -- The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Johnson Sides -- A Piece of Wreckage -- The Story of a Chinee Kid -- Out of Sympathy -- An Old Roman of Mariposa -- Out of the Mouth of Babes -- Posey -- A Case of the Inner Imperative | | | 2006-05-04 |
Astounding Stories, April, 1931 | Various | en | | Monsters of Mars / Edmond Hamilton
The Exile of Time (Part 1 of 4) / Ray Cummings
Hell's Dimension / Tom Curry
The World Behind the Moon / Paul Ernst
Four Miles Within / Anthony Gilmore
The Lake of Light / Jack Williamson
The Ghost World / Sewell Peaslee Wright | Bates, Harry, 1900-1981 [Editor] | Science fiction, American -- Periodicals; Science fiction -- Periodicals | 2009-11-11 |
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels | Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944 | en | | Winsome Winnie; or, Trial and temptation -- John and I; or How I nearly lost my husband -- The split in the cabinet; or, The fate of England -- Who do you think did it? or, The mixed-up murder mystery -- Broken barriers; or, Red love on a blue island -- The kidnapped plumber; a tale of the new time -- The blue and the grey; a pre-war war story -- Buggam Grange; a good old ghost story. | | Humorous stories, Canadian; Parodies | 2007-02-20 |
Christmas, A Happy Time
A Tale, Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Persons | Mant, Alicia Catherine, -1869 | en | | | | Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Christmas stories; Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction; Family reunions -- Juvenile fiction | 2006-12-27 |
Daddy-Long-Legs | Webster, Jean, 1876-1916 | en | | | | Orphans -- Fiction; Boarding schools -- Fiction; Schools -- Fiction; Epistolary fiction; Young women -- Fiction; Love stories; Women authors -- Fiction; Women college students -- Fiction; Bildungsromans; Philanthropists -- Fiction | 1994-08-01 |
At the Earth's Core | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | en | | | | Science fiction; Earth -- Core -- Fiction; Adventure stories | 1996-06-01 |
A Pair of Clogs | Walton, Amy, 1848-1899 | en | | | | Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Children's stories; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction | 2007-11-15 |
At the Earth's Core | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | en | Pellucidar | | | Science fiction; Adventure stories; Earth -- Core -- Fiction; Fantasy fiction | 1994-04-01 |
Among the Pines
or, South in Secession Time | Gilmore, James R. (James Roberts), 1822-1903 | en | | | | War stories; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction; Southern States -- History -- Fiction; Confederate States of America -- History -- Fiction | 2007-10-11 |
Tales of Terror and Mystery | Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 | en | | The horror of the heights -- The leather funnel -- The new catacomb -- The case of Lady Sannox -- The terror of Blue John Gap -- The Brazilian cat -- The lost special -- The beetle-hunter -- The man with the watches -- The japanned box -- The black doctor -- The Jew’s breastplate -- The nightmare room. | | Horror tales, English; Detective and mystery stories, English | 1996-05-01 |
Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories | M. T. W. | en | | Connor Magan's Luck -- Why Mammy Delphy's Baby Was Named Grief -- Sammy Sealskin's Enemy -- Nannette's Live Baby -- Brothers For Sale -- A Story of a Clock -- Naughty Zay -- The Legend of the Salt Sea -- The Man with the Straw Hat -- Ruffles and Puffs -- Sugar River -- A Pioneer "Wide Awake" -- Surprised -- April Fools and Other Fools. | | | 2005-08-21 |